CELEX – Document Type Field (form)


The Document Type field on the Search In EU screen is part of the Default group and has 3 text boxes, for Document Type, Year and Number.

Searching for a Directive by its number

You do not have to complete all 3 boxes, so you can search for all Directives from 1998, or for a Regulation and a number when you are not sure of the year.

Document Type

The first box is for the CELEX Document Type, the legal form of the document (Treaty, Regulation, Decision, Written Question, etc.). For example:

Document Type     National Implementation Measures

In the CELEX Outline, this field is called “Document Type”.

In CELEX documents, this field is shown as “Document Type”.

If you want to use the Document Type field on the Quick Search screen or in the Full Text box on the Search In EU screen, its name is “form”, and you can use a search such as:

form[report or resolution]

Complete list of Document Types

CELEX also includes another classification of documents by type, in the Sector and Year (typdoc) field, based on the 1- or 2-letter codes that are part of the document number.

Year

The second box is for the year.

This field is not present in the Outline.

[TIP: If you leave the Type and Number boxes empty, then you can use the “Year” box to search for years in documents from the Official Journal C database, where the year is taken from the OJ Reference field, and/or in documents from the OJ Daily database, where the year is taken from the Date field.]

Number

The third box is for the number of certain types of document, mostly COM DOCS, Common Positions, Cases, Decisions, Directives, Recommendations and Regulations. For example:

Designation Number
COM/2000/0132 0132
Common Position 2003/444/CFSP 444
Case C-361/2000 361
C-361/2000 361
Commission Decision No. 2003/391/EC 391
Decision 2003/391 391
Council Directive 2003/8/EC 8
Dir 2003-8 8
2005/57/EC: Commission Recommendation of 21 January 2005 57
Council Regulation (EC) No. 2027/2003 2027
Reg 2027/2003 2027

This field is not present in the Outline.

Please note that this is not for the CELEX Reference, the unique identification number of the document, which has its own separate field.


List of Document Types

The Document Type field is used in the Treaties database (Sector 1), the External Agreements database (Sector 2), the Legislation database (Sectors 3 and 4), the Proposals database (Sector 5), the Case Law database (Sector 6), the National Implementation database (Sector 7), the Parliamentary Questions database (Sector 9), the OJC Documents database (Sector C), and the EFTA Documents database (Sector E).

The terms used in the nine databases are:

Treaties Database

Agreement, Convention, Decision Sui Generis, Declaration, Exchange of Letters, Opinion, Protocol, Treaty, Various Acts

External Agreements Database

Agreement, Arrangement, Convention, Decision Sui Generis, Declaration, Exchange of Letters, Protocol, Recommendation, Resolution, Rules of Procedure, Treaty, Various Acts

Legislation Database

Agreement, Assent, Balance, Budget, Communication, Consolidated Version, Convention, Decision, Decision - ESCS, Declaration, Directive, Draft Directive, Financial Regulation, Information, Internal Agreement, List, Opinion, Programme, Protocol, Recommendation, Regulation, Report, Resolution, Rules of Procedure, Statute, Various Acts

Proposals Database

Acceptance of Common Position Without Amendment, Additional Opinion, Amendment to Common Position, Approved Joint Text, Assent, Budget, Common Position, Communication, Draft Recommendation, Opinion, Opinion Disputing a Legal Base, Opinion Not Proposing Amendment, Opinion Proposing Amendment, Opinion Proposing Rejection, Opinion with Qualified Approval, Own-Initiative Opinion, PDEC, PDECB, Programme, Proposal for a Decision, Proposal for a Decision Sui Generis, Proposal for a Directive, Proposal for a Regulation, Rejected Joint Text, Rejection of Common Position, Report, Resolution, Various Acts, Various Proposals

National Implementation Database

Directive, National Implementation Measures

Case Law Database

Conclusions, Judgment, Opinion, Order, Ruling, Seizure, Third Party Proceedings

Parliamentary Questions Database

Oral Question, Question at Question Time, Written Question

OJC Documents Database

Communication, Corrigendum, Information, List, Notice, Opinion, Preparatory Act, Report, Resolution

EFTA Documents Database

Agreement, Communication, DEBES, Decision, Decision Sui Generis, Declaration, Demande, Judgment, Opinion, Order, Protocol, Recommendation, Report, Rules of Procedure, Various Acts



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