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Statewatch provides much of its work free on its main website (www.statewatch.org). However, we provide two other websites with a wealth of research and background information for which we make a small annual charge to support our work. These are: i) Statewatch online including the bulletin and searchable database and ii) SEMDOC (Statewatch European Monitoring and Documentation Centre) covering justice and home affairs and civil liberties in the EU (see details below).

We have now introduced a joint online subscription rates for unlimited annual access to both of these sites:

Joint online subscription to SEMDOC and Statewatch Online

Inidividuals and voluntary groups: £25.00 pa
Institutions, libraries and media: £60.00 pa

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Statewatch European Monitor and Documentation Centre (SEMDOC)

Unlimited access to the SEMDOC website which includes:

The SEMDOC Legislative Observatory

The SEMDOC legislative observatory covers the background and status of every measures adopted, proposed or forthcoming under the justice and home affairs (JHA) titles in the TEC and TEU. It also covers international JHA treaties, case law and other relevant proposals from the 'mainstream' EC treaty. Each measure contains links to full-text documents (unless they have not been made available to the public) and Statewatch and other NGO analysis where available; details on the legal base, background, flexibility ("opt-ins" by the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Iceland or Norway) and implementation procedures; and the legislative status within the Council, Commission and European Parliament. There is also an archive containing the text and status of all binding JHA measures adopted during the Maastricht period (Nov 1993-April 1999).

News & Analyses

Covers the latest material on a range of JHA topics, from a range of sources. Analysis of key developments, new proposals, background documents, implementation matters, policy discussions, strategy papers and progress reports.

JHA Council & "acquis", Key Texts, Links

SEMDOC contains the agendas, minutes and press-releases from JHA Councils and complete the JHA "acquis", comprised of all the texts adopted during the TREVI, Maastricht and current Amsterdam period of policy making. SEMDOC maintains a complete list (including the "confidential" TREVI acquis). Those documents not available online can be ordered (online) from SEMDOC. The "key texts" page contains the justice and home affairs provisions in the TEU and TEC, as well as relevant provisions from the Treaty of Nice. It also contains the Schengen agreement, implementing convention and protocol, JHA conventions (Europol, Dublin, mutual legal assistance etc.), action plans, strategy papers, work programmes and other crucial texts. Links direct users to key pages in the Council, Commission and Parliament sites. The Europol acquis of adopted texts affecting the European Police Office is also detailed in full.

Databases

The SEMDOC website contains two searchable databases. The "SEMDOC I" database contains EU Conventions, Joint Actions, Recommendations, Decisions, reports and press releases from 1993 to the end of 2000 (it will be updated again soon). Users can search for terms against the full text of these documents. The "SEMDOC II" database contains bibliographic records of 6,000 JHA documents held in the SEMDOC archives. It covers TREVI, Schengen and Maastricht and includes documents from the Council, Commission and Parliament. Copies of the documents can be ordered from Statewatch (a charge may be made to cover copying and postage). Users can search the bibliographic records by document reference number or keyword(s). SEMDOC II is an archive of documents 1976-2000. After the creation of the public register of EU Council documents (which only lists documents from mid-1999 onwards) documents are available online.

Analyses

Since 1997 Statewatch has given evidence to the UK House of Lords' Select Committee on the European Communities on a number of JHA topics. Over the years the Select Committees have published a series of excellent and questioning reports, most of which include written and verbal evidence from the UK Home Office, NGOs and academics.

European Parliament Reports

The SEMDOC website also contains key reports adopted by the European Parliament from the Citizens' Freedoms and Rights Committee.

e-mail list

Users of the website can register their e-mail address to receive regular announcements from SEMDOC about new material on the website and JHA issues.

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Statewatch Online Subscriber

The Statewatch online website carries:

1) the latest Statewatch bulletin available in pdf format at the same time as the hard-copy bulletin is mailed. The bulletin is the journal that is monitoring civil liberties issues in the UK and across Europe - via a network of contributors - the emergence of the European state and the effect on peoples' rights.

2) an archive of back issues (1991-2008) in pdf format

3) a up-to-date fully searchable database of all news, features and sources from Statewatch bulletin since 1991 - over 25,000 items. Includes print friendly pages

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