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Advocacy Toolbox

Consult the outcome of requests for access to documents of EU institutions under Regulation 2001/1049 or file your own request. AskTheEU.org is a civil society open source platform. Requests can also be filed via the website of the institution holding the documents.

Register of EU law, EU case law and parliamentary questions. Includes a feature to search by EU lawmaking procedures. Also includes a register of national law and case law of Member states.

Advisory body representing employers, trade unions and other civil society organisations. The EESC gives opinions on proposed EU legislation and policies to the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament.

Find opinions from national parliaments on proposed EU legislation, in particular with regards to the respect of the principle of subsidiarity. Also provides a calendar of interparliamentary conferences and meetings. See also the 'Subsidiarity control mechanism' tool in the Commission toolbox. See also REGPEX for information on the scrutiny of legislative proposals by the Committee of Regions.

Understand the powers and access the case law of the judicial authority of the EU which comprises two courts: the Court of Justice and the General Court. These courts review the legality of the acts of the institutions of the European Union, ensure that the Member States comply with obligations under the Treaties, and interpret European Union law at the request of the national courts and tribunals.

Access the websites of the EU's decentralised Agencies, European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and Joint Undertakings (JUs) that comprise the EU Agencies Network (EUAN). Agencies implement EU policies in various policy areas, ESAs supervise the financial sector, JUs are public-private research partnerships.

The European External Action Service (EEAS) is the European Union’s diplomatic service. The EEAS carries out the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy. It works under the political guidance of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission (HR/VP).

Find opinions from regional parliaments on proposed EU legislation, in particular with regards to the respect of the principle of subsidiarity. See also IPEX for information on the scrutiny of legislative proposals by national parliaments. See also the 'Subsidiarity control mechanism' tool in the Commission toolbox.

Official directory of the EU

Advisory body representing regional and local authorities. The Commission and the Council must consult the CoR on legislative proposals that have impacts at regional or local level. The CoR monitors the respect of the principle of subsidiarity; see also the REGPEX tool.

Independent and impartial non-judicial body that holds the EU’s institutions and agencies to account. File a complaint to report maladministration by an institution. Read the reports of the Ombudsman's proactive investigations on systemic issues.

National parliaments have a role in EU decision-making through the subsidiarity control mechanism. Access reasoned opinions of national parliaments on Commission proposals and Commission replies. See also the 'IPEX' and 'REGPEX' tools in the 'Other institutions' toolbox.