1.2.3. Contents

(a) Regulations

This subheading covers regulations adopted either jointly by the European Parliament and the Council (ordinary legislative procedure), or individually by one of the two institutions with the participation of the other institution (special legislative procedure):

(b) Directives

This subheading covers directives adopted either jointly by the European Parliament and the Council (ordinary legislative procedure), or individually by the Council with the participation of the European Parliament (special legislative procedure):

(c) Decisions

This subheading covers decisions adopted either jointly by the European Parliament and the Council (ordinary legislative procedure), or individually by the Council with the participation of the European Parliament (special legislative procedure):

(d) Budgets

This subheading covers the annual budgets and related amending budgets of the European Union, preceded by the act definitively adopting them:

The number is attributed to the definitive adoption, i.e. the act preceding the annual budget or amending budget. The annual budget itself does not carry any number, whereas amending budgets are assigned a number by the author (‘amending budget No 2 of the European Union for the financial year 2023’).

(a) International agreements

‘International agreements’ (hereinafter called agreements) in this context include agreements concluded by the European Union and/or the European Atomic Energy Community, conventions signed by the Member States, agreements, conventions and protocols established by the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, internal agreements between Representatives of the Governments of the Member States meeting within the Council, agreements in the form of exchanges of letters, etc.

Agreements, as defined above, are not numbered. The Publications Office will only assign them the Official Journal number (this number appears in the Official Journal header).

This subheading covers:

• decisions relating to an agreement, and to which the text of the agreement is attached:

  Council Decision (EU) 2015/209 of 10 November 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the European Union, and provisional application of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and the Faroe Islands associating the Faroe Islands to Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)

  Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and the Faroe Islands associating the Faroe Islands to Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)

  Council Decision (EU) 2015/105 of 14 April 2014 on the signing, on behalf of the Union, and provisional application of a Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Azerbaijan, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the general principles for the participation of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Union programmes

  Protocol to the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Azerbaijan, of the other part, on a Framework Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the general principles for the participation of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Union programmes

• decisions relating to an agreement, and to which the text of the agreement is not attached:

  Council Decision (EU) 2015/1796 of 1 October 2015 on the conclusion of the Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and European Atomic Energy Community and the Swiss Confederation associating the Swiss Confederation to Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community complementing Horizon 2020, and regulating the Swiss Confederation’s participation in the ITER activities carried out by Fusion for Energy

• information relating to the entry into force of agreements:

  Information relating to the entry into force of the Agreement between the European Union and Saint Lucia on the short-stay visa waiver [2023/2212]

  NB:

  This is the only information published in the L series.

(b) Regulations

This subheading covers certain Council regulations (regulations based directly on the Treaties and implementing regulations), Commission regulations (regulations based directly on the Treaties, delegated and implementing regulations) and regulations of the European Central Bank:

ECB regulations, which are also assigned a number by the author (‘ECB/2015/13’), are published with two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2).

(c) Directives

This subheading covers certain Council directives (directives based directly on the Treaties and implementing directives) and Commission directives (directives based directly on the Treaties, delegated and implementing directives):

(d) Decisions

This subheading covers:

• decisions of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, decisions of the Council and the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States and decisions taken by common accord between the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States:

  Decision (EU, Euratom) 2015/578 of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States …

• certain decisions of the European Parliament:

  Decision (EU) 2015/1614 of the European Parliament

• decisions of the European Council:

  European Council Decision (EU) 2018/509

• certain decisions of the European Parliament and of the Council:

  Decision (EU) 2015/468 of the European Parliament and of the Council

• certain Council decisions (decisions based directly on the Treaties, including CFSP decisions, and implementing decisions):

  Council Decision (EU) 2015/1025

  Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/156

  Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/76

• Commission decisions (decisions based directly on the Treaties, delegated and implementing decisions):

  Commission Decision (EU) 2015/119

  Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2015/1602

  Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/103

• European Central Bank decisions:

  Decision (EU) 2015/299 of the European Central Bank … (ECB/2015/5)

  ECB decisions, which are also assigned a number by the author (‘ECB/2015/5’), are published with two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2).

(e) Recommendations

This subheading covers Council recommendations pursuant to Articles 121, 126, 140 and 292 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Commission recommendations (Article 292) and recommendations of the European Central Bank (Article 292):

ECB recommendations, which are also assigned a number by the author, are published with two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2).

Other recommendations are published in the C series.

(f) Guidelines

This subheading covers guidelines of the European Central Bank. These acts, which are also assigned a number by the author (‘ECB/2015/20’), are published with two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2):

(g) Rules of procedure

This concerns the rules of procedure of the institutions and bodies; the rules of procedure of the offices and agencies are published in the C series. The rules of procedure are given a number at the end of the title, in square brackets:

Where the rules of procedure are annexed to an act, they are classified under the same heading as the act and are not assigned a number.

(h) Acts adopted by bodies created by international agreements

This subheading covers decisions of bodies created by international agreements, along with the regulations of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). These acts have two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2):

(i) Interinstitutional agreements

Interinstitutional agreements regulate certain aspects of consultation and cooperation between the EU institutions and are the product of a consensus between them, i.e. they constitute a form of joint rules of procedure.

The institutions decide to publish these agreements in the L series or in the C series depending on their context, their scope and their effects.

European Economic Area

This subheading covers:

• decisions adopted within the framework of the European Economic Area (EEA):

  Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 159/2014 … [2015/94]

• acts adopted within the framework of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA):

  EFTA Surveillance Authority Decision No 226/17/COL … [2018/564]

  Decision of the Standing Committee of the EFTA States No 2/2015/SC … [2015/2024]

• rules of procedure of the EFTA Court.

These acts, except for the rules of procedure of the EFTA Court, have two numbers (see ‘Double numbering’ in Section 1.2.2).

In acts originating from the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the year mentioned in the number of the act comprises only two digits: 226/17/COL (‘COL’ being the College of the Surveillance Authority).