Slaughter and May - Tab: Useful links

Useful EU websites:

Caselaw:

ECJ and CFI judgments and AG Opinions – since June 1997. Searchable by case number, date, names, field and words in text. Good source for very recent judgments.

Competition websites:

Article 81 and 82 cases – links to listing of: cases closed by formal decision (1964 to date), with OJ references and links to full text of selected decisions; cases closed by comfort letter (1990 to 1999); and all public documents issued since 1999 concerning antitrust cases handled by the Commission.

Current developments:

EU press releases: Rapid – updated daily (about midday) to provide the press releases of key EU institutions. Covers press releases back to 1985.

Europa: What's New

Institutions:

Official website of the EU – gateway to other EU internet sites (eg the News Page, the Institutions, Basic Information on the European Union, Key Issues, Sources of Information and Policies).

European Commission – gateway to general Commission information including codes of conduct, rules of procedure, profiles of Commissioners, speeches, press releases and Commission activities.

European Commission Competition DG – gateway to 'antitrust', 'mergers', 'liberalisation', 'state aid' and 'international' pages (see legislative and judicial sites below for details of specific pages).

European Parliament – overview of institution, rules of procedure, MEPs, Report of Proceedings from April 1998, Minutes, Committees, agendas, schedules of activities, full text COM docs from July 1996.

European Court of Justice – database of judgments and A-G's Opinions from June 1996 in full text. Index of cases lodged at Courts and diary of forthcoming hearings. Press releases and Proceedings give abstracts of very recent judgments.

Council of the European Union – details of Council activities, press releases and timetables of meetings. Public register of documents from January 1999.

Legislation:

Compilation of competition sites worldwide – compilation of competition legislation, selected cases and press releases of National Competition Authorities worldwide (some texts translated into English or French).

Official documents of the European Commission – including selected Green and White Papers, last two years Bulletin of the EU, selected Commission Communications.

Merger decisions – including links to full lists of decisions by year, press releases, statistics.

Useful UK websites:

Parliament:

UK Parliament – includes full text of many of the publications produced by the Stationery Office for Parliament. Normally available on the same day as item is published in printed form. Links to House of Lords and House of Commons sites.

UK Legislation:

UK Official Documents – links to Acts of Parliament, Bills, Statutory Instruments, Command Papers (including Green and White Papers), Hansard, House of Lords judgments, Select Committees, Weekly Information Bulletin and a range of other official information.

OFT Competition Act 1998 – including text of guidelines (and drafts)

Enterprise Act 2002

UK Caselaw:

House of Lords Judgments – judgments delivered since 14 November 1996 appear online within two hours of delivery at the House of Lords.

Competition Appeal Tribunal

UK Competition authorities/sectoral regulators:

Competition Commission

Office of Fair Trading – including Annual Report, press releases, Fair Trading magazine, speeches, What's New page.

Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform

Ofcom

Ofwat

Ofgem

Current developments: