European Office - European Websites

Brief explanation about some of the most useful European web sites you can find on the Internet

EUROPA DIRECT - Find out more about your rights as an EU citizen!  Guides and national factsheets tailor-made to your needs contain a wealth of detail about your EUR rights, and how to access your rights in each EU country.  There is a Europe Direct call centre.       http://europa.eu.int/citizens

EUROPA - Contains information about the European institutions. European Union history, treaties, policies, etc and forthcoming European events. http://europa.eu.int/

RAPID - Daily press releases from the European Commission. To log on this site type GUEST(twice) http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/spp/rapid.html

EUROPARL - European parliament site. General information about the Parliament, documents, agendas, press releases, etc http://www.europarl.eu.int/

IDEA - The Who's Who in the European Union. Electronic directory. http://europa.eu.int/idea/en/index.htm

Committee of the Regions - General information about COR and its activities http://www.cor.eu.int/

European Environment Agency - Information on the European Union environmental policy http://www.eea.eu.int/

TED - is the on line version of the S series of the Official Journal. It has information about EU tenders including current issue http://ted.publications.eu.int/

EUR-LEX - Contains sections on the treaties, legislation, case law, parliamentary questions, documents of public interest, etc http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html