IPEX - Interparliamentary EU Information Exchange

Need access to documents about other member states' scrutiny of EU proposals? The IPEX database has been launched as a result of a recommendation of the Conference of the Speakers of the European Union Parliaments in Rome in 2000. National parliaments have their own scrutiny procedures for EU legislation. IPEX is designed to give a platform for the electronic exchange of EU-related information between national parliaments. An IPEX dossier contains all the related documents from the EU institutions about a specific procedure as well as documents resulting from the scrutiny by the national parliaments of the member states. You can see at a glance from the symbols how far the process has reached in different countries. IPEX is freely available at http://www.ipex.eu/ipex/cms/home/pid. At the moment you need to know the document number or simply browse the site as the search function is not working, but a new advanced search facility should be available shortly which will make this a really useful source.