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Official Journal of the European Union

Official gazette of the European Union

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Official gazette of the European Union

Field	Value
name	Official Journal of the European Union
image	DenEuropæiskeUnionsTidendeSerieCEksempel.png
type	Daily official journal
publisher	European Union
founded
language	Official languages of the EU member states
headquarters	European Union
website

The Official Journal of the European Union (the OJEU) is the official gazette of record for the European Union (EU). It is published every working day in all of the official languages of the member states of the EU. Only legal acts published in the Official Journal are binding.

History

It was first published on 30 December 1952 as the Official Journal of the European Coal and Steel Community, then renamed Official Journal of the European Communities with the establishment of the European Community, before taking its current title when the Treaty of Nice entered into force on 1 February 2003.

Since 1998, the journal has been available online via the EUR-Lex service. On 1 July 2013, published issues of the Official Journal began to have legal value only in electronic form, per Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 216/2013. From this date, the printed version has lost its legal value. Each issue is published as a set of documents in PDF/A format (one per official language) plus one XML document ensuring the overall coherency through hashes and a qualified electronic signature (a kind of digital signature defined in European law) extended with a trusted time stamp.

On 1 October 2023, the Official Journal switched to act-by-act publication. In this new production mode, the Official Journal is no longer a collation of acts with a table of contents. Instead, each act is published individually as an authentic Official Journal in PDF format.

Publication

The journal comprises three series:

The L series (= Legislation) contains EU legislation including regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, and opinions.
The C series (= Courts) contains reports and announcements, including the judgments of the European Court of Justice and the General Court (formerly known as the Court of First Instance).
The S series (= Supplement) contains invitations to tender for public contracts, along with other notices issued by the European Development Fund and other agencies.

References

"Official Journal of the European Union". Thomson Reuters.
(2020). "Official Journal – History". Publications Office of the European Union.
{{cite EU regulation. (7 March 2013)
"European Union Research: Official Journal".
"About the electronic edition of the Official Journal - EUR-Lex".
{{cite EU regulation. (23 July 2014)
(2015). "Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective". Springer International Publishing.
"The Official Journal act by act is here - EUR-Lex".
(2019). "Structure of the Official Journal". Publications Office of the European Union.

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