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EU Law Resources Online – How to Get the Info You Need

This online course offers a comprehensive and structured guide to a wide range of internet resources, both free and commercial, focused on EU issues. It trains you in their proficient use, enabling you to quickly and efficiently retrieve the EU information you need.

About this course

The official website of the European Union (www.europa.eu) is the biggest digital portal on the net. It is also the point of entry to an immense plethora of digital resources for professionals working with the EU, economic operators who want to pursue business in the EU, citizens and consumers living and working in the EU and academics and scholars researching about the EU. Moreover, a countless number of other websites, both free and commercial, has flourished over the years, further augmenting the available information.

This hands-on, practical and interactive online course aims to provide you with a chart on the most useful and practical EU information resources, and demonstrate you which tools to use to quickly obtain official documents, publications, statistics, open data and legal information about the EU, how to participate in EU consultations and express your interests in the EU legislative process.

What will you learn:

Thanks to this online course, you will learn how to find quickly and efficiently:

  • policy initiatives, legislative proposals and work programmes;
  • legislation, case law and summaries of legislation;
  • policy papers and press releases;
  • contact information, ‘who’s who’ and ‘who’s doing what’ in the EU.

Course methodology/highlights:

The webinar will feature a number of content sessions conducted by experts who will offer demonstrations of the most useful websites and databases. All these sessions will be followed by Q&A periods where participants will have the possibility to formulate questions and share professional experiences.

Moreover, the webinar will also feature a final interactive session devoted to the resolution of practical ‘search’ exercises, which will allow participants to develop hands-on expertise by exploring the websites themselves under the experts’ guidance.

Extensive training and support material such as presentations, guideline documents, audio visual material, will be provided to participants via the course’s online platform.

By the end of the course, you will have acquired:

  • a toolbox for finding EU targeted information;
  • a good knowledge of the key EU information sources and search techniques;
  • practical experience in using the main EU and non-EU websites and databases.

This course will be beneficial to anyone who needs to be able to find EU information quickly and/or to update their research skills in EU-related matters:

  • EU officials;
  • national civil servants;
  • consultants;
  • information professionals;
  • documentalists and translators;
  • professionals working in interest representation,  in the commercial sector and for NGOs.

Project number: 2451401

Online Course
For this online course we make use of Zoom

Project Management Officer
Ms Isabela Puscasu
Tel: +31 43 3296240
i.puscasu@eipa.eu

Discounts
EIPA member fee
EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency

Who are the supporting countries?
Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden.

For all other participants, the regular fee applies

Early bird discount
The early bird discount is not cumulative with other discounts or promo codes, except for the EIPA member fee.

Loyalty coupon
As a token of appreciation we offer all our participants a loyalty coupon for one of our future courses. The offer can be shared with colleagues and relevant networks. The coupon will expire one year after its release. This discount is not cumulative with other discounts, except for the EIPA member fee.

Confirmation
Confirmation of registration will be forwarded to participants on receipt of the completed online registration form.

Payment
Prior payment is a condition for participation.

Cancellation policy
For administrative reasons you will be charged € 50 for cancellations received within 7 days before the activity begins. There is no charge for qualified substitute participants.

EIPA reserves the right to cancel the activity up to 1 week before the starting date. In that case, registration fees received will be fully reimbursed.

A few days before the start of the course you will receive the log-in details for accessing the course materials. You can log in here.

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Programme

08.45Registration of participants
09.00Welcome and introduction to the webinar
Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz, Senior Lecturer, European Centre for Judges and Lawyers, EIPA Luxembourg
09.15Monitoring and follow-up of legal initiatives and policy priorities 

  • Legislative and work programmes (European Commission,  European Parliament & Council of the EU) & EU Presidency programmes
  • Access to policy development and input into legal proposals: consultations, impact assessment, etc.
  • Institutional agendas, minutes and calendars
  • Open Data Portal

 Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz

10.00Q & A Session
10.15Break
10.30Retrieving key legal texts, judicial information and official documents (Part I)

  • Legislative information (EUR-LEX, N-Lex, Summaries of Legislation)
  • Monitoring EU legislative proposals (EUR-LEX – Legislative procedures, Legislative Observatory)
  • Policy-making information (Register of delegated and implementing acts, Comitology Register)

Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz

11.30Q & A Session
11.45Break
12.00Retrieving key legal texts, judicial information and official documents (Part II)

  • Judicial information (EUR-LEX, CURIA, E-Justice Portal)

NN

12.45Lunch break
13.30Keeping up to date with EU events, news and developments

  • Blogs on EU law, e-reviews and periodicals
  • EU official sources of information (European Commission News Room, RAPID, etc.]
  • Non official sources of information (Web-based news sources, newspapers and newsletters: EurActiv, EUObserver, Parliament Magazine, Politico.EU, etc.)
  • Social Media (Facebook, X, Blogs)

NN

14.30Q & A Session
14.45Break
15.00 Right of access to documents in the EU

  • Legal framework: Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001
  • Who’s documents?
  • Requesting access: principles and limitations

Juan Diego Ramírez-Cárdenas Díaz and NN

15.45Q & A Session
16.00Online Exercises
Participants supervised by experts
17.00Final Conclusions and end of the online course

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EU Law Resources Online – How to Get the Info You Need

15 Nov 2024
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Register before: 8 Nov 2024

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 485 for EIPA members
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Discount policy

EIPA offers a discount to all civil servants working for one of EIPA’s supporting countries, and civil servants working for an EU institution, body or agency.

Who are the supporting countries?

Civil servants coming from the following EIPA supporting countries are entitled to get the reduced fee: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

For all other participants, the regular fee applies.

Early bird discount

For a limited number of training courses, EIPA offers an early bird discount.

For more information please contact us.

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