CELEX – Legislative History Field (prepwork)

The Legislative History field in the CELEX database on Justis is part of the General group, and contains the references in the Official Journal of the preparatory Acts, Explanatory Memoranda, Proposals and Opinions that resulted in the Act in question. For example:

Legislative History

Proposal Commission;Com 98/0158 Final
Consultation procedure ;given on 6/5/99
Opinion Economic and Social Committee;OJ C 284/98 P 55
Opinion Committee of the Regions;OJ C 93/99 P 1
Opinion Court of Auditors of the European Communities;OJ C 401/98 P 3

In the Outline, this field is called “Legislative History”.

In documents, this field is shown as “Legislative History”.

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

prepwork[opinion and social and auditors]

Used only in the Legislation database (Sectors 3 and 4).

If you would like to see the full text of a COM DOC or of a document in the Official Journal, and you have Justis CELEX available:

select the reference (e.g. COM 98/0158 or OJ C 401/98 P 3) by dragging slowly over it with your mouse;
click “J-Link” in the Document Actions panel.

Using J-Link to display another document

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