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Council Regulation (EU) No 216/2013 of 7 March 2013 on the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union

Type Regulation

Publication 2013-03-13

Last updated 2024-03-14

State In force

Department Council of the European Union

Source EUR-Lex

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Article 1

The Official Journal shall be published in electronic form, in accordance with this Regulation, in the official languages of the institutions of the European Union.

Without prejudice to Article 3, only the Official Journal published in electronic form (hereinafter ‘the electronic edition of the Official Journal’) shall be authentic and shall produce legal effects.

Article 2

The electronic edition of the Official Journal shall be published under technical conditions ensuring the authenticity, integrity and inalterability of its content.

The system put into place to ensure authenticity shall be documented on the EUR-Lex website and allow for the authenticity of the electronic edition of the Official Journal to be easily verified.

The electronic edition of the Official Journal shall display information regarding its publication date.

The electronic edition of the Official Journal shall be made available to the public on the EUR-Lex website in a non-obsolete format and for an unlimited period. Its consultation shall be free of charge.

Where certain information in the Official Journal is to be removed after publication pursuant to a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union or in order to protect personal data in accordance with Union legal acts, in particular Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council ([^E0001]), a new version of the electronic edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be made available, accompanied by a notice to that effect. The original version of the electronic edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be kept in the archives of the Publications Office for an unlimited period under technical and organisational conditions which ensure that the original version can be disclosed only in accordance with Union law.

Article 3

Where it is not possible to publish the electronic edition of the Official Journal on the EUR-Lex website due to an unforeseen and exceptional disruption of the information systems involved, the edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be published in printed form. That edition shall be authentic and shall produce legal effects.

Once the information systems referred to in paragraph 1 are restored, the electronic edition of the Official Journal corresponding to the edition published in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be made available on the EUR-Lex website. From that moment on, it shall be considered to be the only authentic edition and shall produce legal effects.

The electronic editions of the Official Journal corresponding to the authentic printed editions of the Official Journal published after 1 July 2013 shall be considered to be the only authentic editions from 14 March 2024.

Article 4

With regard to the electronic edition of the Official Journal, the Publications Office shall be responsible for:

(a) publishing it and guaranteeing its authenticity;

(b) implementing, managing and maintaining the information system producing the electronic edition of the Official Journal, and upgrading that system in line with future technical developments;

(c) implementing and extending the technical facilities to ensure accessibility for all users to the electronic edition of the Official Journal;

(d) setting up internal security and access rules with regard to the information system producing the electronic edition of the Official Journal;

(e) preserving and archiving the electronic files and handling them in line with future technological developments.

The Publications Office shall exercise the responsibilities set out in paragraph 1 in accordance with Decision 2009/496/EC, Euratom.

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth calendar month following its adoption.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

[^E0001]: Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (OJ L 295, 21.11.2018, p. 39).

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