GETTING IN TOUCH WITH THE EU
In person
All over the European Union there are hundreds of Europe Direct Information Centres. You can find the
address of the centre nearest you at: http://europa.eu/contact.
On the phone or by e-mail
Europe Direct is a service that answers your questions about the European Union. You can contact this
service:
• by freephone: 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
(certain operators may charge for these calls),
• at the following standard number: +32 22999696 or
• by electronic mail via:
http://europa.eu/contact.
FINDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE EU
Online
Information about the European Union in all the official languages of the EU is available on the Europa
website at: http://europa.eu.
EU Publications
You can download or order free and priced EU publications from EU Bookshop at:
http://publications.europa.eu/bookshop. Multiple copies of free publications may be obtained by contacting
Europe Direct or your local information centre (see http://europa.eu/contact).
EU law and related documents
For access to legal information from the EU, including all EU law since 1951 in all the official language
versions, go to EUR-Lex at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu.
Open data from the EU
The EU Open Data Portal (http://data.europa.eu/euodp/en/data) provides access to datasets from the EU.
Data can be downloaded and reused for free, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes.
