Page contentsPage contents Class description The main objective of the Law class is to: provide clear, easy-to-understand information on the EU law-making process, EU legislation, and enforcement allow users to contribute to law-making and give them practical information on matters related to law. Content in the Law class on the European Commission website provides contextual content on, for example, EU law, rules, treaties, judgments and explains: the types of EU law the law-making process how EU law is adopted, applied and evaluated Links from Commission websites to EUR-Lex from within the Law class allow users to access more detailed content on specific measures. Links to the Have your say consultation tool (created under the Better regulation project) allow users to contribute to EU policy development and law-making. The class indicated in the header or footer of a Commission website links to its landing page: Law class. Original research As with other classes, the Law class architecture is based on research and analysis of top tasks, user needs, organisational goals and analytics. The top tasks and organisational goals are listed below. List of tasks included in this class Task ranking Task Total vote Task category 1 EU law, rules, treaties, judgments 5.2% Top Task 13 Track policy and law making process, updates 2.1% Medium task 22 National implementation of EU law, infringements 1.5% Small task 38 Competition (state aid, cartels, mergers, anti-trust) 1.0% Tiny task 44 Initiate, contribute to law making (public consultations, citizen's initiative) 0.8% Tiny task 49 Privacy, data protection 0.7% Tiny task 56 Crime, fraud, corruption, human trafficking 0.7% Tiny task Judicial cooperation between EU countries, recognition of judgments 0.5% Tiny task 13.0% Organisational goals participation: improve the quality of contributions and outreach in order to obtain a more balanced range of useful contributions on Commission initiatives from different target groups reputation management: show the added-value, the impact and successes of the EC's or OLAF's work. Explain the EC's role in the legislative process or its position (e.g. on ECJ or infringement cases) better communication: explain EU's law and rules in a clear way accountability: show and ensure that EU law is properly and coherently implemented in the EU transparency: of the legislative process, the rules and availability of legal documents, legal obligation support: networks of experts. Read more on Process to define the 15 classes: original research For more information Please contact the appropriate Europa web content coordinator.
