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Publications Office of the European Union

Logo: EU Publications Office, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Academic and legal publisher

The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services and data, information and knowledge management services to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. This makes it the central point of access to EU law, publications, open data, research results, procurement notices, and other official information. Its mission is to support EU policies and make a broad range of information publicly available as accessible and reusable data.2 It is headquartered in Luxembourg.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1969Founded1

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Luxembourg, Office des publications de l'Union -européenne 08-2023
Photo: GilPe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

The Publications Office of the European Union is the official provider of publishing services and data, information and knowledge management services to all EU institutions, bodies and agencies. This makes it the central point of access to EU law, publications, open data, research results, procurement notices, and other official information.2

Corporate structure

Publications Office of the European Union sits at the top of its group. 2 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Publications Office of the European Union Luxembourg
    • CORDIS Subsidiary · Belgium
    • Communitatis Europeae Lex Owned
    • EUR-Lex Owned
    • EuroVoc Owned

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Publications Office of the European Union reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

  • Communitatis Europeae Lex
  • EUR-Lex
  • EuroVoc

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

Products and brands

Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS), the European Commission's primary source of results from the projects funded by the EU's framework programmes for research and innovation.

EUR-Lex, the gateway to EU law, providing free access to, and information about, public legal documents from the European Union.

TED (Tenders Electronic Daily), the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union, dedicated to European public procurement. It is the official entry point to all business opportunities involving public procurement contracts for values above EU thresholds (EUR 144 000) in the European Union, the European Economic Area and beyond.

the Publications Office online public access catalogue (OPAC), allowing librarians or other information professionals, to search in more than 330 000 individual bibliographic records and download metadata of their selected publications into their own catalogues.

Read the full text

the EU Web Archive preserves websites of EU institutions, agencies and bodies. It maintains collections using the Archive-It service:

data.europa.eu: the official portal for European data

EU publications website: the publications of EU institutions, agencies and other bodies in various formats

EU Whoiswho: the directory of the European institutions

From Wikipedia’s article on Publications Office of the European Union, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

  • European Union

Subsidiaries

  • CORDIS

Also owns

  • Communitatis Europeae Lex
  • EUR-Lex
  • EuroVoc

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1969Founded Founded1

Sources

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