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EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union

Maintains the text in force

The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

eur-lex.europa.eu

Cannot be cited for

A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.

Re-check every

90 days

Publication rhythm

The Journal publishes daily. A consolidated version appears within weeks of an amendment applying, and the date it reflects is in its identifier.

Re-check triggers

an amendment to Annex I or Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 · a visa-exemption agreement with a third country entering into force or being suspended · an amendment to the Schengen Borders Code affecting entry conditions

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