The European Central Bank (ECB) implements the monetary policy of the European Union, and in particular maintains the European System of Central Banks. It is the central bank for the European single currency, the euro. Its website has news, statistics and information on the euro, monetary policy, payments and markets. The ECB's reports, reviews and papers are available on the website, as are its Monthly Bulletin, Economic Bulletin
The Publications Office of the European Union is the European Union's official publisher. Its website includes the EU Bookshop as well as links to key resources including EUR-Lex, Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the EU Open Data Portal, the CORDIS research and innovation database and EU Who Is Who. It also provides background information about the Publications Office and a newsletter which covers EU policy and recent publications. The interface is available in all the EU languages.
The European Commission Press Release Database (sometimes known as Rapid) contains press releases, factsheets and other bulletins issued by the European Commission, as well as press releases from the Council of the EU, the Court of Justice and some other EU institutions (but not the European Parliament). It is managed by the Communication department of the European Commission. It includes all Commission press releases since 1985. The content is accessible without registration and RSS feeds are also available to all users.
The European Scrutiny Committee is a permanent cross-party committee of the House of Commons. It assess draft EU legislation which has been deposited in Parliament by the Government. Its website makes available the Committee's reports from November 1996 to date, minutes from November 2009 to date, ministerial correspondence with the Committee, background papers and details of inquiries by the Committee. There is also a guide to the European scrutiny system and a guide to the EU institutions and EU legislation.
The European Investment Bank is the official body which finances capital investment in the EU and seeks to promote European Union economic policy. Its activities include: fostering economic development of the poorer European regions, financing urban renewal projects and promoting competitiveness of industry. The EIB website contains the full-text of the statute which sets out its role, it also includes its most recent annual report, press releases and other publications. Information is also available on current projects and there is a list of recent publications.
The Academy of European Law was established by the European University Institute (EUI) in 1990 to promote teaching and scholarship in the fields of European Union Law and Human Rights Law. It holds annual advanced-level courses on these subjects and publishes the content as Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. Full details of the courses and the Academy's special projects are given on the website.
Under the Jean Monnet Project, the European Commission supports university initiatives aimed at creating teaching activities in European integration, in particular in Law, Economics, Political Science and History. The Jean Monnet Center is based at New York University. Its website makes available the Jean Monnet Working Paper Series from 1995 onwards, the European Journal of International Law and European Integration Current Contents. The site also gives details of the Center's activities, courses and fellowships.
EUR-Lex is the European Union's own free database of legal and official texts, amounting to more than three million documents.
The European University Institute was founded in 1972 by the European Community Member States to provide advanced academic and cultural training on a European basis. Its website offers information on the purpose of the Institute and details of its ongoing research. The site provides free access to the EUI publications repository, Cadmus, which contains bibliographic details of books, articles and theses and full text content of EUI working papers.
The European Court of Auditors (ECA) was created in 1977 and acts as the official auditor of European Union finances. Its website offers details of the role and purpose of the ECA, its annual reports on the EU budget from 1977 onwards and the external auditor's reports from 1997 onwards. It also has a collection of ECA opinions going back to 1977 (via Browse Publiactions, on the home page) as well as briefing papers, background papers, reports, speeches and other documents. The Library pages include a bibliography concerning the EU budget.
