In the framework of the Action Plan “Legislating better” aimed at making EU law more transparent and accessible, the Official Publications Office of the European Union in Luxembourg has made available on the website (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/it/legis/avis_consolidation.htm) the complete corpus of secondary legislation, otherwise known as the complete corpus of secondary legislation, otherwise known as acquis communautaire . The publication – which has no legal value in itself given that, while pending codification of the document, only the individual consolidated Treaties are authoritative texts – brings together all the provisions in force in less than 3000 legislative acts that “furnish an overall view, continually updated, of existing EU legislation”. At the present time nineteen linguistic versions are accessible. The European Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban has said that “the consolidation of legal documents is indispensable for an updated, more readable and more accessible EU legislation”.
