New material in EurLex

I have written to EUrLex today as follows:

"I have written to you before on this matter but I would again draw your attention to the fact that several documents dated 13th February have appeared in the ComDoc section several days after their date of adoption.

There is no indication that they have only recently been added.

It would be much easier to keep track of new material if you added it under today’s date, irrespective of its date of adoption. At the moment anyone trying to follow all new material has to check back regularly to count up whether there are still the same number of document shown under the dates for at least the last week.

This is surely not your intention.

There may be a reason for filing these documents under their adopted date but I can only repeat that it makes an excellent database more difficult to use. There are several important documents on the freedom of movement now listed under the 13th February and they will be missed by many of your users who are not aware that new material can be listed under previous dates."


They didn't reply last time but maybe if I keep trying...

President of Europe?

Most of the people signing the anti-Blair petition seem to be from the UK - I wonder why?!

Q&A on EU information

Reply to this post to ask questions about EU information.

The Dark Side?

Has anyone noticed that the Europa website appears to have been cloned? If you go to euramis.net you’ll see what appears to be a complete copy of Europa. Apparently Euramis stands for European Advanced Multilingual Information System, but whether that’s relevant to this site cloning issue, I have no idea. Does anyone know what’s going on? Is anyone allowed to say?

Print on Demand - Do you have any experience?

The EIA is investigating the potential of on-demand publishing/printing. We are interested in producing new publications in a way that allows us to print relatively small quantities without paying a very high unit cost.

One of the key benefits would be minimising financial risk to the Association when publishing a new title . Although on a lighter note the EIA committee is particularly keen to avoid having boxes of new publications in our garages now that the stacks at Manchester Central Library are no longer available to us!

Do any members have experience of using on-demand publishing/printing. All hints, tips and recommendations for service providers gratefully received.

Law Society guide to Treaty

The Law Society has published a guide to the Treaty of Lisbon which it describes as "a vital tool for solicitors, parliamentarians and anyone else who has an interest in EU law ". It looks in particular at the EU’s role in areas of day-to-day legal practice including dispute resolution, family law and criminal law.

Worth a look.

BBC

Thanks Eric, I didn't spot that until later. Usually the BBC leave the earlier versions of stories on their site and link back to them but maybe someone mentioned that the first one was rubbish!

And while I'm having a soap-box moment, you might want to look at this item I came across from Personnel Today a leading UK human resources magazine

Now look at the report of the European Parliament debate.

Some discrepancy there? The correspondents to Personnel Today certainly seem to have taken it from the original story that the MEPs were about to pass new legislation. "Yet more EU red tape" as they put it.