Useful documents

Explore a list of useful documents for EU publications.

Identifiers and other preliminary and cover elements

• A quick reference guide (29.7.2024)
• Edition, back cover and publicity elements in 24 languages v35 (30.10.2025) (.zip)
• Sample pages (19.12.2019)

Official Journal, legislative drafting

• Joint Practical Guide of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission for persons involved in the drafting of European Union legislation, Publications Office of the European Union, 2015
• Joint Handbook for the Presentation and Drafting of Acts subject to the Ordinary Legislative Procedure (Parliament, Council, Commission), 2023

General publications

• Guidance on printing and formats (2024)
• Publish to Be Read – Editorial guidelines for authors of EU publications (2024)

Useful notions in 24 languages

• Brackets in 24 languages
• Copyright notices in 24 languages
• Disclaimers in 24 languages
• Names of institutions, bodies, interinstitutional services and organisations in 24 languages
• Quotation marks in 24 languages
• ‘Tel.’, ‘Fax’, ‘Telex’, ‘Mobile’, ‘Email:’ and ‘Internet:’ in 24 languages

Archive

• Visual guide – Official Journal typographical rules / Guide visuel – Règles typographiques du Journal officiel (2009)
• Informations utiles à l’intégration de nouvelles langues européennes (2004)
• Harmonising the numbering of EU legal acts (2014)