The documentary resources concern official publications of several Institutions in the European Union, such as:
- Legislation proposals;
- Legislation (Official Journal, L series);
- Communications (Official Journal, C series);
- Supplement (Official Journal, S series);
- Reports, debates, expert's reports, activities, studies, etc.;
- Jurisprudence (activities, repertory and reports of cases of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance);
- Statistics from EUROSTAT (various).
The documentary resources also include publications from other Institutions:
- Community Plant Variety Office
- Committee of the Regions;
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
- European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products;
- European Agency for Safety and Health at Work;
- European Central Bank;
- European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training;
- European Economic and Social Committee;
- European Environment Agency;
- European Investment Bank;
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions;
- European Training Foundation;
- The European Ombudsman;
- European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and for Drug Addiction;
- European University Institute;
- Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market: Trade Marks and Designs.
The documentation cataloguing (monographs, periodical publications, audiovisual documents, reference works, maps, posters) is guided towards easing the user's access to the documentation and information by author, title and subject. For the indexation is used the EUROVOCThesaurus (multilingual community terminology language). The classification plan is based on the one used in the Repertory of the Community Legislation and covers the following thematical areas:
General, political and institutional
matters; Customs Union and free movement of goods
Agriculture;
Fishing;
Employment and social affairs;
Law and juridical matters;
Transports;
Competition;
Tax system;
Economic and monetary policy and free
circulation of capitals; External relations;
Energy;
Industrial policy and internal market;
Regional policy;
Environment and consumers;
Technical and scientific research;
Education, culture;
Tertiary sector and free provision of services;
Cooperation to development;
Statistics;
Documentation;
Others.
The classification, beside permitting locating the general matter, makes possible the free access to the bookstand, where the arrangement is done according to the rubrics and sub-rubrics of the referred plan.
