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My email alerts
You can stay informed about new publications on EUR-Lex related to documents and procedures by creating email alerts.
To do so you need to be a registered user and sign in.
If you are not a registered user yet, click on My EUR-Lex at the top right-hand corner of any EUR-Lex page and then Register. You will be redirected to the EU Login page , where you can create your account.
To sign in, click My EUR-Lex at the top right-hand corner of any EUR-Lex page and then Sign in. Enter your credentials.
By creating email alerts on EUR-Lex you can stay informed about new updates related to EU documents such as legislation, international agreements, preparatory documents or case-law.
- On the page displaying the document you are interested in, click Create an email alert in the left menu.
- In the box that pops up, give a name to your email alert (compulsory), add a comment (optional) and choose the updates you want to be informed about:
- modifications to the document,
- subsequent preparatory acts modifying the document,
- case-law affecting the document,
- consolidated versions of the document,
- documents mentioning the document,
- documents whose legal basis is the document (for instance implementing and delegated acts).
- Click Save to create the email alert.
If you have not signed in yet, the system will ask you to do so.
By default, the first four options are selected.
Each time EUR-Lex publishes a new document related to your alert, you will receive an email with a link to this document.
The system counts each alert you create (RSS alerts and email alerts) as one saved search and adds it to the total number of saved searches in your personal space. You can have a maximum of 50 saved searches.
You can create email alerts to stay informed about any new updates on EUR-Lex related to a specific lawmaking procedure.
- On the page that displays the procedure you want to follow, Click Create an email alert in the left menu.
- In the box that pops up, give a name to your email alert (compulsory), add a comment (optional)
- Click Save to create the email alert.
If you have not signed in yet, the system will ask you to do so.
For each created alert, a saved search is added to ‘My saved searches’.
You can add new alerts, up to a maximum 50 (the limit for saved searches in the system).
Each time EUR-Lex publishes a new document related to your alert, you will receive an email with a link to this document.
The system counts each alert you create (RSS alerts and email alerts) as one saved search and adds it to the total number of saved searches in your personal space. You can have a maximum of 50 saved searches.
- Click My EUR-Lex at the top right-hand corner of any EUR-Lex page and then Sign in.
- Click My email alerts.
- A table lists all your email alerts.
For each email alert, you will see the following.
- The name of the email alert. Click it to display the document or the procedure on which the alert is based.
- A link called View search to see the search parameters related to the alert.
- The date and time of the last update of the alert.
- An edit icon. Click it to change the name of the email alert, the optional comment and the updates you want to be informed about.
You can also create alerts by using RSS feeds. See our dedicated page on RSS feeds for more information.