This is really useful – and an important step towards more transparency. The European Commission just launched a directory for legislative proposals as part of the Eur-Lex service (hat tip: Grahlaw) You can browse through 20 policy areas and discover what kind of EU legislation is in the pipeline!
What exactly is included?
‘Preparatory documents’ means all documents corresponding to the various stages of the legislative or budgetary process. They include Commission legislative proposals, Council common positions, legislative and budgetary resolutions and initiatives of the European Parliament, and opinions of the European Economic and Social Committee and of the Committee of the Regions, etc.
Directory of Community legislation in preparation
The Directory of Community Legislation in Preparation is not new – it has been available on Eur-Lex for over a year or so. It complements the long established Directory of Legislation in Force. EUR-LEX have also suggested that they will offer at some point a Directory of Consolidated Legislation, which will be useful.
EUR-LEX is slowly improving access to legislative informaton – at some point the service is going to digitise the full text of pre-1998 material, which will be a very big and significant step forward.
Thanks a lot for the info. Good to see at least some progress in Eur-Lex.