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Our page dedicated to the Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland. The latest EUR-Lex upgrades to search results and the Document information tab. How to create a My EUR-Lex account and what you can do with it.

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Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland Our dedicated page gathers in one place the rules included in the protocol.   It also includes related key documents, summaries of EU legislation and more. Visit the page on the Protocol on Ireland / Northern Ireland You will find it in the EUR-Lex ‘News’ section, which you can access via the home page. Search results When you export your search results in CVS/EXCEL/TSV/XML, you can include a new piece of metadata: the current consolidated version date. You can also export your search results in a compressed zip folder. In ‘Customise shown information’, you can choose not to display: CELEX numbers; the HTML and PDF icons that lead to the corresponding document formats (‘Direct text access’ box under ‘Miscellaneous information’). Document information tab We have improved the Document information tab in the document page by reorganising the sections and removing duplicated content.

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My EUR-Lex account Did you know that you can enrich your experience on EUR-Lex by creating an account and using personalised features? With My EUR-Lex you can access many more functionalities than a non-registered user, including:   saving documents and searches; creating alerts with RRS feeds to stay informed of any new publications on a selected document or procedure; setting personal preferences, including a predefined multilingual view with your preferred languages; exporting a large number of documents. See more in our Help pages and below. Existing feature: alerts with RSS feeds You can be informed about new publications on EUR-Lex using RSS feeds. EUR-Lex offers a set of predefined RSS feeds to stay up to date with the latest publications related to Official Journal editions and predefined categories of documents (EU legislation, EU case-law, Commission proposals, Official Journal acts).   Each time EUR-Lex publishes a new document related to your selected category, you will be alerted via your browser or an RSS reader. If you are signed in as a registered user, you can also create your own feeds for searches, documents and procedures. For more information, see My alerts (RSS feeds). Experimental feature: visualisation of relationships This feature allows you to see the links between legal acts and related documents as a graph. When you are looking at your legal act, click on ‘Document information’ in the left-hand menu.   On the main page, look at the ‘Relationship between documents’ section and click ‘Show relationship graph’. The central node represents your act, and all the nodes around it represent related documents. Documents of the same type (amendments, delegated acts, consolidated versions…) have nodes of the same colour. Nodes with a ‘+’ icon indicate that further subcategories of documents are available. Click on the ‘+’ to see them all (and then click on the ‘-’ to hide them again). Nodes with a ‘file’ icon represent documents. Click on them to go to the related document pages. When you hover over these nodes, the CELEX numbers of the documents appear. If the node represents a procedure, a specific icon is displayed. The filter table on the left-hand side lets you display different document categories. Experimental feature: replacing CELEX with short titles The links pointing to documents are normally clickable CELEX numbers. To make these links more meaningful, we are gradually replacing them with plain text. The feature is currently only available for links to treaties and case-law. Example: A link to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union will be TFEU (2016) instead of 12016E043.