EuroCases service:National case law linked to EU law

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Presentation Plan• Service overview• Content scope• Data sources• Main features

– Search• Quick search• Advanced search

– Working with documents and lists of documents• Editorial added value• Access to the service

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Service Overview• Multilingual online legal information service:

– Interface languages: English, French, German, Italian, Bulgarian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch

• Ensuring access to national case law linked to EU law• Created in the context of EUCases project, financed by

the EC through the Seventh framework programme • Offering cross-border information about cases where

national courts apply norms of EU law as well as the principles established by the jurisprudence of the EU Court of Justice

• Serves the needs of legal professionals who: – Apply EU provisions and rulings of the Court of Justice in their

daily work– Have a good command of one or more foreign languages,

and– Are interested in the achievements of jurisprudence of other

Member States with EU relevance– Deal and have interest in the work and proceedings of the ECHR

• EuroCases is a service with European added value

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Content ScopeCirca 340,000 documents in 4 data collections:• EU Legislation – founding treaties, international agreements, secondary and

complementary legislation‒ In 4 languages: English, French, German and Bulgarian

• EU case law – all judgments, orders and opinions of the Court of Justice, the General Court and the Civil Service Tribunal‒ In 4 languages: English, French, German and Bulgarian

• National case law with EU relevance – more than 150,000 decisions of the supreme courts and lower instance courts of the Member States in 19 areas of EU law‒ Texts are in the language of the case, but most important cases are available with keywords,

classification headings and summaries in EN, FR or DE

• Case law of the European Court of Human Rights‒ All judgments and decisions of the Court in English and French

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Content Scope (cont.)

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Data SourcesEuroCases aggregates and re-uses data from a variety of EU and national legal sources, for instance:

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Jurisdiction Rulings (*)

Austria 42,810Bulgaria 38,510France 34,562Germany 15,537United Kingdom 2,852Other EU Member States 18,046Court of Justice of the EU 24,471European Court of Human Rights 46,232 EU legislation 124,313

Total 347,333

EuroCases in Numbers

(*) Up to June 2016

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Main Features: Quick Search

Just type your query here

Filter search results

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Main Features: Advanced Search

Search area

Search by legal terms

Search by cited legal instrument / provision

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Main Features: Advanced Search (cont.)

Search by cited legal instrument

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Main Features: Advanced Search (cont.)

Search by cited provision

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Advanced Search: Search Results

Number of documents found

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Editorial Added Value

Key words and summary in English and German

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Editorial Added Value (cont.)

Metadata and classifications

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Editorial Added Value (cont.)

Links to other documents, cited in the judgement

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Editorial Added Value (cont.)

In-line links to cited EU legal instruments

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Access to EuroCases: eurocases.eu

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Take a free TourAccess to EuroCases without registration limited to:• Some main features:

– Quick and Advance search– Filtering the search results– Links from other documents

• 4 types of example documents:– National case– EU case– ECtHR case– EU legislative instrument

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