CELEX – Full Text

The Search In EU screen contains a “Full Text” box for entering search terms, but unlike the other text boxes it is not restricted to one particular field.

Justis searches all of the documents in all of the selected EU databases for terms that you enter in the Full Text box.

Justis first examines your query to see if it can recognise it as the reference or name of a document. If it does recognise it as a reference or name, then it retrieves the appropriate document, and also retrieves all other documents that contain the reference or name. (If you want to retrieve just the cited document, then please use the Reference field or the OJ Reference field.)

If it does not recognise your query as a reference, then it applies the default AND operator between each term, and searches for documents that contain all of the terms in your query.

You can restrict all or part of your search to specific fields, by entering the field name immediately followed by the relevant terms enclosed in square brackets.

You can use search operators to control the relationship between multiple search terms, and wild cards to look for variants of your terms.

You can also use search operators to control the relationship between multiple fields. When you use the individual fields on the Search In EU screen, an AND operator is automatically used between fields. If you need to use OR or NOT operators between fields, you can do this in the Full Text box.

If your search finds more than one record, you will be shown a list of documents on the Results screen. If your search finds only one record, it will be displayed on the Document screen. If your search finds no records, you will see a message informing you of this.