European Union Publications in the University of Sydney Library
1. Introduction
2. Structure of the EC Institutions
3. Dictionaries, Directories and Guides
4. European Parliament 4.1 The Legislative Process 4.2 COM and SEC Documents
5. Commission of the EU
6. Council of the EU 6.1 Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER)
7. European Council 8. Economic and Social Committee
9. European Law 9.1 Treaties 9.2 Legislation 9.3 Court of Justice of the European Union 9.4 British Parliamentary Committees
10. European Court of Auditors
11. European Investment Bank
12. Agriculture
13. Science
14. External Relations 14.1 EU and Australia
15. Statistics
16. Lists and Indexes 16.1 Service Central Automatise de Documentation (SCAD) Publications
17. Bibliography
Appendices: Other library publications dealing with government documents Credits
1. INTRODUCTION
NOTE:
This document is a supplement to the
Government Internet Guide - Europe.
The European Union was originally formed by the merger of three distinct bodies:
- The European Coal and Steel Community (ESC)
- The European Economic Community (EEC or Common Market) and the
- European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM or EACC).
[Note: This guide does not cover the Council of Europe, which is a separate organisation with different membership from the EU. The institutions of the Council of Europe include the Parliamentary Assembly, the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers].
At the beginning of 1984, the University of Sydney was designated a European Documentation Centre, (EDC), and now receives most official publications of the Commission of the EU, the European Parliament, and the European Court of Justice. (Some official publications of the EU had been received before 1984).
This guide mainly refers to items located in the Fisher Library (such as Microform, Audiovisual, Reference, Rare Books) unless otherwise indicated.
This guide provides a brief guide to the institutional structure of the EU, information about official EU publications, and a selective list of publications held in the Library. Unless otherwise stated, the publications listed on the following pages are located in the Research Library wing of Fisher Library. The prefix R indicates publication is located in the Fisher Reference Collection on Floor 3. Some government publications in Fisher Library are arranged by a special classification in a separate location on the ninth floor of the Fisher Research Library. These publications are mainly those of parliaments, and government gazettes. Basically the arrangement is alphabetical by country or organisation, then alphabetical by type of publication, then chronological, e.g.:
G for Government publication
EC for European Communities (now European Union)
OJ:L for Official Journal: Legislation
The State Library of New South Wales has been a Depository Library for official publications
of the EU since 1952.
The original members of the EU were France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. The United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland joined in 1973, Greece joined in 1981, and Spain and Portugal joined on 1 January, 1986. Greenland (part of Denmark with home rule) formally left the EC on 1 February, 1986.
2. STRUCTURE OF THE EU INSTITUTIONS
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3. DICTIONARIES, DIRECTORIES & GUIDES
341.2422 An atlas of EC affairs
19 London: Methuen, 1984
R337.14025 European Communities Yearbook and other
1 European Organizations
Brussels: Delta/Bowker, 1982
R341.2422 European Parliament. Directorate General
22 for Research and Documentation
Provides fact sheets on the European Parliament and the activities of the European Union.
R068.4 Morris, Brian et al
2 The European Community: a practical directory and
guide for business, industry and trade.
London: Macmillan, 1986
Gives details of official bodies, government departments and representative organisations of the EU plus a comprehensive glossary
341.2422 Noel, Emile
21 Working together: the institutions of the European
community
Luxembourg: OPO, 1988
341.242 Opening of the historical archives of the
53 European Communities to the public
Luxembourg: OPO, 1983
R341.2422 Paxton, John
11 A dictionary of the European Communities
London: Macmillan, 1982
382.914203 Paxton, John
2 A dictionary of the European Economic Community
London: Macmillan, 1977
337.142 Steps to European unity: community progress to
date: a chronology
2 Luxembourg: OPO, 1983+
4. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
The Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community, which first met in 1952, was the predecessor of the European Parliamentary Assembly which served the three communities from 1958. In 1962 it adopted the name European Parliament (EP). Direct elections for the EP were held in 1979, 1984, 1989 and 1994. Previously it consisted of representatives from the national parliaments chosen from their own members. The EP is one of the few European Union institutions which holds its meetings in public. The Parliament publishes three principal official series: Debates, Minutes of Proceedings and Working Documents.
G.EC European Commission
OJ:D Official journal of the European Union:
debates of the European Parliament
December 1983+
Working documents/European Parliament
G.EC Dec. 1983 - Dec. 87 (hard copy)
EP:WD
MIC 341.242 Jan 1988 - (microfiche)
80
Minutes of Proceedings and oral questions of members of the European Parliament are published in the following:
Official journal of the European Union:
Information and notices
G.EC V.27, Feb 1984 - V.30 Dec 1987 (hardcopy)
OJ:C
MIC 341.242 V.28 Jan 1988 - (microfiche)
77
WWW access to the Official Journal 1998+
MIC 341.242 Index 1987 - (microfiche)
78
Index to the Official Journal 1998+
The following includes texts of resolutions:
G.EC Texts adopted by the European Parliament EP:TA PE 1, 1988+
A guide to the European Parliament's workings, lists of members and statistical information can be found in:
R341.2424 Forging ahead: European
2 Parliament 1952 - 1988
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of
the E.C., 1989
R341.2422 Fact sheets on the European Parliament and the activities
22 of the European Community.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the
E.C., 1989
R341.242 European Parliament
59 Official handbook of the European Parliament
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the
E.C., 1989
328.405 European Parliament
1 Rules of procedure
Luxembourg: The Parliament, 1984
341.24205 European Parliament
6 EP news
Luxembourg: Secretariat of the EP, No.51, Feb 1984+
341.242 The European Parliament: its powers
52 Luxembourg: OPO, 1983
341.242 The European Parliament and the world at large
55 Luxembourg: OPO, 1981
R328.3094 The Times guide to the European Parliament
15 London: Times Books, 1979
328.3094 Cocks, Barnet
2 The European Parliament: structure, procedure and practice
London: HMSO, 1973
Law Library Palmer, Michael
The European Parliament: what it is, what it does,
how it works
Oxford: Pergamon, 1981
4.1 The Legislative Process
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4.2 COM and SEC Documents
These are the main internal working documents of the EU. COM is a contraction of Commission and SEC of Secretariat-General.
European Commission
Documents COM
Luxembourg: The Commission, Jan 1984-
G.EC Jan 1984 - Dec 1987 (hard copy)
COM
MIC 341.24205 Jan 1988 - (microfiche)
9
R011.52 European Commission
2 Documents: monthly catalogue
Luxembourg: The Commission, 9/83+
The monthly catalogue purports to list all publicly available COM documents in English arranged under broad subject headings.
R015.177 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities 3 Documents 1987+
This index of COM documents and documents of the European Parliament is produced monthly with semi-annual cumulations.
016.3412422 Hopkins, Mike
1 Policy formation in the European Communities: a
bibliographical guide to community documentation 1958-
1978.
London: Mansell, 1981-
Lists and describes over 600 major COM documents prepared by the Commission during the period 1958-78. Also refers to documents of the EP and the Economic and Social Committee and to important legislative acts. Includes documents index and subject index.
5. European Commission
The Commission, whose members are appointed by the member governments, was established in 1967 by the merger of the Commission of the EEC, the Commission of EURATOM, and the High Authority of the ECSC. As the executive authority, the Commission's tasks include: implementation of European Union policy, negotiation of trade agreements, and formulation of the European Union budget. The administrative apparatus of the Commission comprises 22 Directorates-General (External Relations, Competition, Transport, Budget, etc.) and 16 special services (Secretariat, Office for Official Publications, etc.)
R328.913006 European Commission
1 Directory
(latest) Brussels, 1976+
337.914 European Commission
87 General report on the activities of the
European Union
Brussels: The Commission, 1967+
337.1405 European Commission
1 Programme of the Commission, 1983+
330.94 Bulletin of the European Union
61 Brussels: Secretariat-General of the Commission, 1968+
The bulletin is a monthly review of recent topics of interest which provides summaries of the work of the main institutions in each policy field, and details of publications.
338.914 European Commission
18 Background report
London, 1978+
Each issue is devoted to a particular topic of interest
338.911724 Courier: Africa-Caribbean-Pacific-European community 31 Brussels: The Commission, 1979+
News and information magazine, articles on the European Communities and their relations with other countries.
940.55 Euroform 13 1979-1980
General interest news magazine, continued as a separate section of Europe:
940.55 Europe 18 1981+ 940.05 European documentation 5 Brussels: Commission of the EC, 1979+
Long summaries of various European Union activities and policies. Brief summaries appear in the following:
338.914 European file 20 Brussels: Commission of the EC, 1979+
6. COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
The Council of the European Union was created in 1967 by the merger of the Special Council of Ministers of the ECSC, the Council of the EEC, and the Council of EURATOM. The Council is the principal decision-making and legislative organ of the European Union, for example: it adopts legal acts and concludes agreements on behalf of the European Union. The Council consists of ministerial representatives and representation varies according to the agenda.
R341.24205 Council of the European Union
7 Council Guide
Luxembourg: OPO, No.1, 1984+
G.EC Council of the European Union
RCW Review of the Council's work
Luxembourg: General Secretariat of the Council and OPO,
Vol 30, 1982+
The following has details of tenders and contracts for E.C projects.
G.EC Official Journal of the European Union:
OJ:S Supplement
Vol 31, 1988+
6.1 Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER)
Comprised of national officials of ambassadorial status, COREPER advises the Council of the European Union on Commission proposals, and prepares the work of the Council.
7. EUROPEAN COUNCIL
The European Council consists of the heads of government and foreign ministers, meeting at least twice a year. Although not mentioned in the treaties, and not part of the formal structure of the European Union, it provides political guidance and impetus. This system of regular summit conferences was institutionalized as the European Council in 1974 in a communique by the heads of government.
8. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE
ESC members are appointed by the Council from lists submitted by member governments. The Committee consists of representatives of employers, trade unions, consumer and professional bodies. The ESC has advisory status and its opinions have no binding force but the Rome Treaty obliges the Council and the Commission to consult it on various matters.
Opinion of the Economic and Social ESCO Committee on the....
G.EC
ESCO Jan 1984 - Dec 1987 (hard copy)
MIC
341.750614 Jan 1988 - (microfiche)
12
G.EC Bulletin (Economic and Social Committee of the European
ESCB Communities)
Brussels, No.12, 1983+
341.75 Economic and Social Committee of the European
25 Communities
Brussels: The Committee, 1983+
9. EUROPEAN LAW
EU law includes the treaties and ancillary agreements concluded by member states, secondary legislation of the Communities' organs (regulations and directives), administrative acts, and decisions and pronouncements of the European Court of Justice.
9.1 Treaties
Law Library Treaties establishing the European Communities:
treaties amending these treaties: documents concerning the
accession.
Luxembourg: OPO, 1978+
Law Library European Commission
Collection of the agreements concluded by the
European Union, 1977+
(covers bilateral and multilateral agreements)
G.EC Agreements and other bilateral commitments linking the
A Communities with non-member countries.
Luxembourg: OPO, 1984+
9.2 Legislation
The Official Journal of the European Union contains all official proposed regulations, directives, and resolutions etc. in the "C" series and all ratified legislation and decisions in the "L" series, both published daily. An Alphabetical Index and Chronological Table is published monthly.
Official Journal of the European Union:
Information and notices
Luxembourg: OPO.
G.EC February, 1984 - December 1987 (hard copy)
OJ:C
MIC 341.242 January, 1988 - (microfiche)
77
WWW access to the Official Journal 1998+
MIC 341.242 Index, 1987 - (microfiche)
78
Index to the Official Journal 1998+
Official Journal of the European Union:
Legislation
Luxembourg: OPO.
G.EC December, 1983- (hard copy)
OJ:L
MIC 341.242 January 1988- (microfiche)
79
WWW access to the Official Journal 1998+
The first part of each issue contains EU regulations approved by the Council (printed in bold type and asterisked in the index). The second part contains administrative legislation (directives & decisions) passed by the Commission in accordance with powers delegated to it by the Council.
G.EC Index to the official journal of the European
OJ:Z Communities
Monthly index.
Luxembourg: OPO, December, 1983+
Index to the Official Journal 1998+
Law Library Register of current community legal instruments
Brussels, Luxembourg, 1983+
9.3 Court of Justice of the European Union
The Court determines the validity of acts and decisions of EU organs, hears appeals against penalties, interprets treaties, and deals with breaches of European Union law by the member states. There is also a Court of First Instance to assist the Court of Justice.
Law Library Court of Justice of the European Communities
Recueil de la jurisprudence de la cour 1954-1979
Reports of cases before the courts 1959+
Summaries of cases before and judgements of the Court are reported in the Official Journal "C" Series, Information and Notices, listed above.
9.4 British Parliamentary Committees
The House of Commons Select Committee on European Legislation considers draft proposals by the Commission of the EU for legislation and other documents published for submission to the European Council, reports to what extent UK law may be affected and recommends which of the EU documents should be debated by the full House. Fisher Library holds the reports of the Committee in the set of House of Commons Parliamentary Papers currently received on microfiche. (Location MIC328.4104/3)
The House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union considers draft and formal EU proposals, and reports on those which raise important questions of policy or principle. Reports of the Select Committee and of its Sub-Committee on Law are held in Fisher Library in the set of House of Lords Sessional Papers (location GUK/DL).
10. EUROPEAN COURT OF AUDITORS
The Court of Auditors was set up by a treaty of 1975 which entered into force in 1977. It is required to assist the Parliament and the Council in exercising their powers of control over the implementation of the European Union budget. The Court examines the accounts of all revenue and expenditure of the European Union. Reports of the Court are published in the Official journal. "C" series, and the Working documents of the European Parliament.
11. EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK
The EIB is an autonomous public institution within the European Union. The Bank provides loans for modernization of industry and investment in the energy sector in the European Union countries, and for the development of less developed regions.
332.66 European Investment Bank
7 Annual report
Luxembourg, 1959+
332.15305 European Investment Bank
1 Information
Luxembourg, 1975+
12. AGRICULTURE
338.1094 Agricultural situation in the Community ....report
16 Brussels: The Commission, 1972+ (Fisher)
and Badham 1982+ (Badham Library)
Badham Library Green Europe:
Newsletter on the Common Agricultural Policy
Bruxelles: Agricultural Information Service of the
Directorate-General for Agriculture
No. 183, 1981+
13. SCIENCE
Euroabstracts announces all scientific and technical reports published by the Commission, in two sections:
Section 1: EURATOM and EEC research, scientific and technical
publications and patents.
Held 1984+ in Fisher Reference Collection at R621.4805/9
Section 2: Coal and Steel. Research Programmes and agreements.
Held 1984+ at R662.62072/1
Reports of scientific and technical research programmes of the EU and studies funded by the Commission are published as EUR documents, which are not generally supplied to the Library. However, individual EUR documents are provided free to the Library on request. The National Library in Canberra has a full set of EUR documents, available through inter- library loans service at Fisher Library.
The Catalogue of EUR documents 1968-1979 is held in Fisher Reference Collection at R016.6/18.
14. EXTERNAL RELATIONS
G.EC Europe information: external relations ER Brussels: Commission of the EC, 1983+
14.1 EU and Australia
630.94 EC Agriculture:
6 European Community Agricultural Newsletter
Badham Canberra: Press and Information Service
83/30, 30 Nov, 1983+
341.242205 EC background
1 European Community information note
Canberra: Press and Information Service
Delegation of the European Commission
83/1, 5 June, 1983+
341.24205 EC news
5 Canberra: Press and Information Services
Delegation of the European Commission
V.1, no.3, Sept/Oct 1983+
RB378.9448 Europa: newsletter of the Centre for Studies of the
M.Ce.4 University of Sydney
1 V.1, no.1, April 1984+
The relations between the EU and Australia are discussed, together with a two page list of books and journal articles, in Chapter 18 of the following work:
R016.341242 The European Community: bibliographical excursions 3 London: Frances Pinter, 1983
15. STATISTICS
The publications of the Statistical Office of the European Union (EUROSTAT) are grouped according to "themes" and "sub-themes", as classified below. Fisher Library has received a copy of each EUROSTAT publications since 1984. The following are finding aids for EUROSTAT publications:
R016.314 Eurostat index: a detailed keyword subject index to
4 the statistical series published by the Statistical
Office of the European Union,
with notes on the series.
Edinburgh: Capital Planning Information,
3rd edition, 1986
R337.14205 Statistical Office of the European Union
1 Eurostat news
Luxembourg: Eurostat Publications, No.4, 1982+
16. LISTS AND INDEXES
N015.4 Monthly catalogue of the publications of the European
Community institutions 1972+
Includes new monographs and series issued during the period covered. There is a subject index, title index, and an alphabetical list of current periodicals. The catalogue is also published at the back of each issue of the Bulletin:
330.94 Bulletin of the European Union
61 1968+
G.EC European Commission Library Luxembourg
EPSA Selected articles
016.3 European Commission Library Brussels
28 Recent publications on the European Union
received by the Library 1984+
016.3 as above, Supplement 1987+
30
R016.3 Publications and documents of the EC
32 received by the Library 1978-83
R016.3 Publications and documents of the EC
33 received by the Library 1984+
R016.3412422 European Community publications:
3 a guide to British Library resources
British Library Board, 1983
R011.52 International organisations publications
1 London: H.M.S.O. 1955+
R016.3412422 Neilson, June
2 Reports of the European Communities: an index to
authors and chairmen
London: Mansell, 1981
Includes a subject index
016.94005 Serial publications of the European Communities and its
2 institutions held by the BLLD.
British Library, 1979
R015.177 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
3 Documents 1987+
Listings of COM documents, EP reports and ESCO opinions
R015.177 Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
2 Publications 1986+
16.1 Service Central Automatise de Documentation (SCAD) Publications
016.33094 Dokumentationsbulletin. A = Documentation bulletin.
9A
1984, 2-41.
Continued by:
SCAD bulletin. A.
1985, 1-42.
Continued by:
SCAD bulletin (1986)
1986, 1+
Each weekly issue lists COM documents, EP Working Documents, Economic and Social Committee documents, regulations, directives and decisions, and academic journal articles on the EU, arranged under general subject headings.
016.33094 SCAD bibliographies. B
10 1985, 3.
Continued by:
SCAD bibliographies (1986)
1986+
Series B consists of several regularly updated bibliographies on specific topics
016.33094 DOSSIER bibliographique. C/SCAD = bibliographic file. 11 C/SCAD 1985, 2+
Series C is a series of regularly updated bibliographies, consisting of a cumulation of all entries under a particular heading in Series A above.
17. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Law Library Hopkins, Mike
Publications, documentation, and means for their
dissemination in the European Commission
London: British Library, 1981
R354.1819 Hopkins, Michael
1 European Communities information: its use and users
London: Mansell Publishing, 1985
016.025 International documents for the 1980s: their role and use.
3 Proceedings of the 2nd World Symposium on International
Documentation, Brussels, 1980
Pleasantville N.Y.: UNIFO, 1982
R016.3091 Jeffries, John
3 A guide to the official publications of the
European Communities
London: Mansell, 1981
R341.242209 Overton, David
1 Common market digest: an information guide to the
European Communities
London: Library Association, 1983
341.2422 Working together: the institutions of the European
21 Communities
Luxembourg: OPO. 1982
Other library publications dealing with government documents are:
- British Government Publications
- International Governmental Organisations
- United States Government Publications
- Australian Government Publications
- Australian Historical Statistics
- Australian Public Policy
- Australian Parliamentary Reports Index
Credits
This is a guide to the government publications held in the University of Sydney Library.
The text of this document was written by Ian Duncan in 1986 and updated by Ray Penn.
It is being constantly revised. Any comments or suggestions should be directed to:
Ray Penn, Government Publications Librarian at:
r.penn@library.usyd.edu.au.
This document is a supplement to the
Government Internet Guide - Europe.