TREATIES

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OJ OnlinePlus contains all the treaties of the Europe Union as available in Celex, the inter-institutional documentation system for Community law. Every article, protocol, annex and declaration is available as a separate document. There are also quick links from the search form to the most important treaties in pdf format. The following treaties are available:

• Treaty on the European Union (Maastricht Treaty of 1992), the treaties establishing the European Coal and Steel Community (Paris Treaty of 1951), the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (Rome Treaty of 1957);
• Accession Treaties;
• Treaty on Greenland;
• Treaties amending the basic treaties: the Merger Treaty (1965), the budgetary treaties (1970, 1975), the Single European Act (1986), the Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) and the Treaty of Nice (2001);
• Consolidated versions (in full text and in pdf format in all EU languages) of the Treaty establishing the European Community and the Treaty on European Union, following the entry into force of the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties
• Treaty establishing the Constitution for Europe

Main features / search tips

• The search form provides specific search fields with useful examples to easily access this section of the database.
• Use Words in title to quickly retrieve a treaty article, e.g. article 10 (use truncation to find sub-articles, ie: article 10*). To refine your search we suggest you also select the treaty name, e.g. amsterdam.
• Click the court decisions tab (if it appears) to view case law interpreting a particular treaty article.

 



• Advanced search contains an extensive selection of changeable search fields for expert searching this part of the database, e.g. open the of Treaty & no. to select a Treaty and a particular article in the correct format.
• You can link to the full treaty in pdf format from within the document.
• Open the pdfs window for direct access to English versions of the most important treaties in pdf format.
• OJ OnlinePlus is not case sensitive.
• Windows copy & paste functionality (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) can be used in the search form.
• A search term can be any word, phrase or number which may be linked together by Boolean operators, e.g. transport and hazardous waste
• You can use wildcards to find variants of words or to substitute a single letter, e.g. liab* or wom?n
• Search fields are linked by default by the boolean operator AND. Use the Advanced search form with its greater functionality for expert searching.
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