The European Union On-Line: http://europa.eu

European Institutions:

European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu
European Parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu
Council of the European Union: http://www.consilium.europa.eu
European Court of Auditors: http://www.eca.europa.eu
European Ombudsman: http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu
Court of Justice of the European Communities: http://curia.eu.int
European data Protection Supervisor: http://www.edps.europa.eu

Other European Institutions:

European Economic and Social Committee: http://www.eesc.europa.eu
Committee of the Regions: http://www.cor.europa.eu
European Central Bank: http://www.ecb.eu
European Investment Bank: http://www.eib.europa.eu

Databases:

• EUR-LEX: http://eur-lex.europa.eu
  Provides access to:
  - Official Journal of the European Union
  - Treaties
  - Legislation
  - Preparatory acts
  - Case-law
  - Parliamentary Questions
  - Documents of Public Interest
  
  
• PRELEX: http://ec.europa.eu/prelex
  Database on inter-institutional procedures follows the major stages of the decision-making process between the Commission and the other institutions:
  - stage of the procedure;
  - decisions of the institutions;
  - persons' names;
  - services responsible;
  - references of documents …etc,
  and monitors the works of the various institutions involved (European Parliament, Council, ESC, Committee of the Regions, European central Bank, Court of Justice, etc.).
  
  
• N-LEX - Access to national law: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex
  
  
• CURIA - Access to the case law of the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance: http://curia.europa.eu
  
  
• RAPID - Contains all press releases of the European Commission and some other European Institutions: http://europa.eu/rapid
  
  
• SCAD PLUS - Summaries of EU legislation in all policy areas: http://europa.eu/scadplus
  
  
• TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) - Supplement ‘S’ to the Official Journal of the European Communities, which publishes invitation to tenders for public contracts: http://ted.europa.eu
  
  
• CORDIS - Access to information about Research and Development: http://www.cordis.lu
  
  
• EU Whoiswho - an electronic directory which presents the organisational charts of the EU institutions, bodies and agencies in all official EU languages: http://europa.eu/whoiswho
  
  
• EU bookshop: http://bookshop.europa.eu
  
  
• ECLAS - the Commission libraries’ union catalogue is the European Commission union catalogue referencing holdings of a network of libraries, called Réseaubib. In addition to the Central Library, some 25 smaller specialised libraries and documentation centres participate in this co-operation network: http://europa.eu/eclas
  
  
• EUROVOC– multilingual thesaurus – indexing instrument for documents:
  http://europa.eu/eurovoc/sg/sga_doc/eurovoc_dif!SERVEUR/menu!prod!MENU?langue=RO
  
  
• EUROPEANA - „A place for inspiration and ideas. Search through the cultural collections of Europe, connect to other user pathways and share your discoveries.”: http://www.europeana.eu/portal