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The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities is the publishing house of the European Institutions. It is responsible for producing and distributing EU publications on all media and by all means.

The Publications Office, whose current organisation and operation are laid down by an interinstitutional agreement (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 183, 22.7.2000, p.12), is governed by a Management Committee, on which each institution is represented by its Secretary-General.

Although the Publications Office was not formally set up as an independent body until 1969, its origins go back to the Publications Service of the European Coal and Steel Community, which published, from 1952 onwards, the Official Journal of the European Coal and Steel Community, subsequently entitled Official Journal of the European Communities and now Official Journal of the European Union.

How to obtain EU publications?

Priced publications

You can buy EU publications that are sold at a price through a network of several hundred sales agents located all around the European Union and the rest of the world. Search the publications database to find one nearest to you.

Free publications

You can order copies of free publications from:

• the European Commission's representations and delegations
• the European Parliament's Information Office
• the EU information networks
• use the EU Bookshop on-line (see below)

Services available on-line include the following

EUR-Lex

EUR-Lex gives a comprehensive access to European law. It provides a convenient means for consulting the Official Journal of the European Union online, the Treaties, the legislation in force, the document series of the European Commission, the case-law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance and the collection of consolidated legislation. It also provides links to other sources of information such as the registers of the institutions and other legislative sites of the EU and the Member States.

EU Bookshop

The new online EU Bookshop aims to provide a single access point to citizens and businesses for various publications of the European institutions, agencies and other bodies, published and/or catalogued by the Publications Office. In EU Bookshop you can download publications as PDF files or order them as hardcopies, if available.

IDEA Who's who in the European Union?

The electronic directory of the European institutions, IDEA, is a guide to the administrative structure of the European institutions. Updated on a daily basis, IDEA is a reliable source of information concerning the names and addresses of high-ranking EU civil servants.

A paper edition of the directory, entitled The Official Directory of the European Union, is also published once a year. It can be purchased from the Publications Office's sales agents.

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• Office for Official Publications of the European Communities LUXEMBOURG