CELEX – Date of Signature Field (signed)

The Date of Signature field in the CELEX database on Justis is part of the DATE group, and contains the date of signing of an agreement, followed by the place of signing. For example:

Date of Signature	SIGNED 1999/07/08=Brussels
Date of Signature	SIGNED 2001/02/26=NICE

Date searching in this field is restricted to searching for an exact or truncated date; the date search operators are not available. It is possible to use a search such as "1999 and 07", but this will find documents for the 7th day of the month as well as for July.

In the Outline, this field is called “Date of Signature”.

In documents, this field is shown as “Date of Signature”.

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

signed[1999/07* and brussels]

Used in the Treaties database (Sector 1) and the External Agreements database (Sector 2).

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