EU Exit Web Archive

The EU Exit Web Archive contains a wide selection of documents taken from EUR-Lex (the European legislation website), including Treaties, legislative documents, the Official Journal of the EU, case law and other supporting materials, and judgements of the European Court of Justice in English, French and German. This collection contains all content published up to the completion of the implementation period, at 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020.

It provides a comprehensive and official UK reference point for EU law as it stood at the end of the implementation period.

Where to find the legislation you need

EU Exit Web Archive

EU law as it stood at the completion of the implementation period, at 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020.

Legislation.gov.uk
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UK versions of legislation originating from the EU. Where available this is a revised version (including amendments made by the EU pre-exit). Sometimes only an original version (as first adopted by the EU) is available. Versions of the EU legislation that are available on legislation.gov.uk will be updated with any amendments made by the UK.

EUR-Lex
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EU legislation as it currently applies in the European Union.

What’s in the collection?

We have archived the following types of documents from EUR-Lex, in English, French and German up to the end of the implementation period:

  • Directions
  • Regulations
  • Decisions
  • Complementary legislation
  • Treaties
  • International agreements
  • Case law
  • Consolidated Acts
  • Other C Series documents
  • EFTA documents

Why create an EU Exit Web Archive?

The EU Exit Web Archive is one of the ways that The National Archives is meeting the publishing responsibilities set out in Schedule 5 Open in a new window to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16). This Schedule sets out the EU legislation that must be published after the UK has left the European Union. It also says that other useful legislation documents may be published.

Changes made to the legislation on EUR-Lex no longer apply to the UK. This archive collection provides a comprehensive and official reference point for EU law as it stood at the end of the implementation period at 11pm GMT on 31 December 2020.

Rights statement

All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use. For information on accessibility, please consult our Accessibility Statement.