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URBACT
The European exchange and learning programme promoting sustainable urban development – URBACT - has launched a new website to raise public awareness of major urban challenges. With details of projects, documents and news, it aims to ‘provide a shared space which sets the benchmark in terms of sustainable urban development.’

A recent questioner asked Eric how best to find an item in the Directory of Legislation in Force.

Eric answered: The Directory of Community Legislation in Force (DOCLIF) is organised according to a Commission system which is not always easy to navigate. There is often a good deal of guesswork needed to identify the section to which a particular piece of legislation has been allocated. This is particularly the case with subsections, when a significant amount of time can be wasted trying to find which of a number of divisions is the one required.
However, the good news is that DOCLIF is available in both html and pdf versions. The pdf files are not issued for sub-sections, but are issued for DOCLIF’s 20 main sections. So at any of the pages for the main sections, such as 15 Environment, consumers and health protection, there's a link to the print version. In this case it’s a 97-page file which is easy to search using the 'find' function.