The legislation in force as classified according to the Directory of European Union legislation may be accessed from this page. The analytical structure of the Directory of European Union legislation includes 20 chapters with divisions into further sub-sections as necessary.
Selecting one of the sections will return a list of all titles of acts in force classified in this section.
The Directory covers agreements, directives, regulations and decisions. More
The Directory also gives access to consolidated texts, which have no legal value but which integrate a basic instrument of European Union legislation with its subsequent amendments and corrections in a single text. More
Directory of European Union consolidated legislation 
Legislation in force
As at 1.2.2012
Directory of European Union legislation in force
You can print out the chapter of the Directory of European Union legislation in force that you are interested in from the PDF files for each chapter. The larger chapters have been split into several PDF files.
- 01 General, financial and institutional matters (number of acts: 1272)
- 02 Customs Union and free movement of goods (number of acts: 884)
- 03 Agriculture (number of acts: 3078)
- 04 Fisheries (number of acts: 1010)
- 05 Freedom of movement for workers and social policy (number of acts: 565)
- 06 Right of establishment and freedom to provide services (number of acts: 260)
- 07 Transport policy (number of acts: 720)
- 08 Competition policy (number of acts: 1764)
- 09 Taxation (number of acts: 182)
- 10 Economic and monetary policy and free movement of capital (number of acts: 531)
- 11 External relations (number of acts: 3480)
- 12 Energy (number of acts: 390)
- 13 Industrial policy and internal market (number of acts: 1607)
- 14 Regional policy and coordination of structural instruments (number of acts: 385)
- 15 Environment, consumers and health protection (number of acts: 1602)
- 16 Science, information, education and culture (number of acts: 446)
- 17 Law relating to undertakings (number of acts: 116)
- 18 Common Foreign and Security Policy (number of acts: 502)
- 19 Area of freedom, security and justice (number of acts: 647)
- 20 People's Europe (number of acts: 21)