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• Law Law
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  • General information on EU law, national Member State law and international law

    Law

    • EU law
    • Member State law
    • International law
    • Publication of official announcements
    • Consumer Law Database
      • Price Indication Directive (98/6)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive (1999/44)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Misleading and Comparative Advertising Directive (2006/114)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Timeshare Directive (2008/122)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Injunctions Directive (2009/22)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Consumer Rights Directive (2011/83)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Unfair Contract Terms Directive (93/13)
        • Text of the Directive
      • Package Travel Directive (2015/2302)
        • Text of directive
      • Repealed
        • Doorstep Selling Directive (85/577)
    • • • • Text of the Directive
        • Package Travel Directive (90/314)
          • Text of the Directive
        • Timeshare Directive (94/47)
          • Text of the Directive
        • Distance Selling Directive (97/7)
          • Text of the Directive
      • Enforcement Systems  
• Case law Case law
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  • General information on case law at EU and national level

    Case law

    • EU case law
    • European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
    • ECLI search engine
    • Member State case law
    • International case law
• Judicial systems Judicial systems
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  • General information on the organisation of justice at EU and national level

    Judicial systems

    • EU courts
    • Judicial systems in Member States
      • Ordinary courts  
      • Specialised courts  
• Legal professions and justice networks Legal professions and justice networks
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  • General information on the types and organisation of legal professions at EU and national level as well as on various justice networks

    Legal professions and justice networks

    • EJN in criminal matters
    • Eurojust
    • European Law Institute
    • Legal professions
    • EuroPris
• European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters
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  • Information on the European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters

    European Judicial Network in civil and commercial matters

    • About the network
    • Citizens
    • Judges and other judicial authorities
    • Events/news
    • EJN's publications
    • Information on national law (information sheets)
    • Members' section
    • Links
• Going to court Going to court
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  • Guidelines and information on cross-border legal proceedings: from initiation to enforcement

    Going to court

    • In which Member State?
    • How to proceed?
    • Which law will apply?
    • Legal aid
    • Costs of proceedings
    • Statutory interest
    • Fundamental rights
      • Fundamental rights interactive tool  
      • Glossary  
    • Monetary claims
      • “Order for payment” procedures
        • Court fees concerning European Payment Order procedure
      • Small claims
        • Court fees concerning Small Claims procedure
      • Insolvency  
    • Family matters
      • Divorce  
      • Parental responsibility  
      • Parental child abduction  
      • Maintenance claims  
      • Cross-border family mediation  
      • Lawful removal of the child  
      • Matrimonial property regimes  
      • Property consequences of registered partnerships  
      • Cross-border placement of a child including foster family  

    • Enforcement of judgments
      • Procedures for enforcing a judgment  
      • Judicial auctions  
      • European enforcement order  
• Legal aid
• Mediation Mediation
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  • General information on mediation at EU and Member State level

    Mediation

    • EU overview on mediation
    • Mediation in Member States
    • Cross-border family mediation
      • Key principles and stages of mediation  
      • Particularities of cross-border mediation  
      • Costs of cross-border mediation  
      • Legal context of cross-border mediation  
• Succession Succession
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  • Information on successions

    Succession

    • General information
    • Adapting rights in rem
    • Restrictions on successions – special rules
• Victims of crime Victims of crime
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  • General information on victims' rights

    Victims of crime

    • Victims of crime in criminal proceedings
    • Compensation
      • If my claim is to be considered in this country  
      • If my claim is to be sent from this country to another EU country  
      • If my claim (from another country) is to be considered in this country  
      • Claiming damages from the offender  
    • Rights of victims of crime in criminal proceedings
    • Mutual recognition of protection measures
• Rights of defendants in criminal proceedings
• Tools for courts and practitioners Tools for courts and practitioners
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  • Information on tools and facilities designed to facilitate the work of courts and justice practitioners at EU and national level

    Tools for courts and practitioners

    • General information
      • General policy description  
      • Manual  
      • Taking evidence by videoconferencing  
      • Information on national facilities  
    • Cooperation in civil matters
      • Taking of evidence  
      • Service of documents  
      • Interim and precautionary measures  
      • Procedural time limits  
      • Automatic processing  
      • Procedures for enforcing a judgment  
      • European enforcement order  
      • Small claims  
      • Insolvency  
      • Protection measures in civil matters  
      • “Order for payment” procedures  
      • Jurisdiction  
    • Cooperation in criminal matters
      • European Arrest Warrant  
      • Request for judicial assistance
        • European Investigation Order, mutual legal assistance and Joint Investigation Teams
        • Freezing of assets and evidence
        • Confiscation
        • Taking into account previous convictions
    • • Detention and transfer of prisoners  
      • European Protection Order  
      • Payment of fines  
      • Jurisdiction  
      • European Judicial Atlas in criminal matters  
• Registers Registers
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  • General information on business, land and insolvency registers at EU and Member State level

    Registers

    • Business registers
      • Business registers at European level  
      • Business registers in Member States  
    • Land registers
      • Land registers at European level  
      • Land registers in Member States  
    • Insolvency registers
      • Interconnected insolvency registers search  
• Find a... Find a...
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  • Guidelines on how to to find a lawyer, notary, legal translator/interpreter or mediator

    Find a...

    • Find a company
    • Find a lawyer
    • Find a notary
    • Find a legal translator or an interpreter
    • Find a mediator
    • Find a forensic expert
• Glossaries and terminology
• European judicial training European judicial training
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  • General information on judicial training on EU law for legal practitioners opportunities and facilities at EU and Member State level

    European judicial training

    • The European judicial training policy
    • European training networks and structures
    • Training of legal practitioners at national level
      • National training structures for the judiciary  
      • Court staff's training systems in the Member States  
      • Lawyers' training systems in the Member States  
    • Training material
      • EU law in general  
      • Civil law  
      • Criminal law  
      • Legislation against organised crime  
      • Human rights  
      • Rights of the child  
      • Non-discrimination  
      • Gender equality  
      • Administrative law  
      • Environmental law  
      • Intellectual property  
      • Training methodology  
    • Good training practices
• Dynamic forms Dynamic forms
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  • User friendly on-line forms contained in legislation concerning civil and commercial matters

    Dynamic forms

    • European Payment Order forms
    • Small claims forms
    • Compensation to crime victims forms
    • European enforcement order forms
    • Judgments in civil and commercial matters forms
    • Legal aid forms
    • Matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility forms
    • Maintenance obligations forms
    • Serving documents forms
    • Taking of evidence forms
    • European Account Preservation Order forms
    • European Certificate of Succession
    • Public documents
    • Mutual recognition of protection measures forms
• Access to justice in environmental matters
• European Judicial Atlas in civil matters European Judicial Atlas in civil matters
    

  • This Atlas provides you with a user-friendly access to information relevant for judicial cooperation in civil matters

    European Judicial Atlas in civil matters

    • Brussels I Regulation (recast)
    • Judgments in civil and commercial matters - Brussels I Regulation
    • Mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters
    • Law applicable to divorce and legal separation
    • Mediation
    • Small claims
    • European payment order
    • Maintenance obligations
    • European enforcement order
    • Matrimonial matters and matters of parental responsibility
    • Matters of matrimonial property regimes
    • Matters of the property consequences of registered partnerships
    • Serving documents
    • Legal aid
    • Taking evidence
    • Succession
    • European Account Preservation Order
    • Compensation to crime victims
    • Public documents