CELEX – Update Date Field

The Update Date field in the CELEX database on Justis is part of the General group. It contains no data for documents that were present when the Justis 2 service was launched in September 2006. For documents added or modified after that date, this field contains the date when the new or modified document was added to the database.

Formats that can be used to search this field include:

31 Oct 2006
31 October 2006
31-10-2006
31/10/2006
20061031
2006-10-31
2006/10/31

You can use the Date operators in this field.

Operator	Symbol	Definition
BEFORE	<	Before the date
AFTER	>	After the date
ON	=	On the date
FROM		Range start (use with TO)
TO		Range end (use with FROM)

For example:

after 31/10/2006
from 01/11/2006 to 31/12/2006
before 01/12/2006 or after 31/12/2006

If you specify the operators, then from/to ranges are inclusive of both dates, i.e. the search will include the start and end dates that you type in.

If you use the 2 text boxes on the Search In EU screen, then you can choose whether or not the dates are inclusive.

If you want to specify this field on the Quick Search screen or in the Full Text box on the Search In EU screen, its name is “Update_Date”, and you can use a query such as:

update_date[after 20061031]

This field does not appear in the document or in the Outline.

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).

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