Luxembourg
1. Legal Gazette
1.1. Overview
Mémorial — Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg
Mémorial — Amtsblatt des Großherzogtums Luxemburg
Mémorial — Official Journal of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Published by:
Ministère d’État — Service central de législation
(Ministry of State — Central Legislative Service)
rue Plaetis L-2338 - Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Tel. +352 24782958
E-mail: info@legilux.public.lu
Website: http://www.legilux.public.lu
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Official journal / legal gazette
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In Luxembourg there is one single publication, which is divided into a section containing legislation (Mémorial A) and sections with legal notices and other administrative acts (Mémorial B), Mémorail C has been abolished on the 1st June 2016 |
| First edition |
Mémorial législatif et administratif du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Verordnungs- und Verwaltungsblatt
(Administrative and legislative Memorial of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) No A 001 of 7 January 1839
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| First online edition |
1986 |
| Paper edition |
Since 1 January 2017 the paper version has no legal value anymore |
| Online edition |
http://www.legilux.public.lu/
Available texts
Mémorial A: PDF, HTML, XML from 1839
Mémorial B: PDF, HTML, XML from 1854 to 1875 and from 1996
Mémorial C: PDF from 1996 – 1/6/2016
Access and price
Free |
| CD/DVD edition |
No CD/DVD edition |
1.2. Details on the legal gazette in general
| Content |
- Mémorial A (legal gazette): legislative and regulatory acts
- Mémorial B (official gazette): individual administrative acts, circulars, opinions and others
- Mémorial C (official gazette): publications concerning commercial companies, non-profit foundations until 1st June 2016
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| Legal basis |
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| Legally binding |
Since 1 January 2017, only the electronic version has legal value. |
| Financing |
State budget |
1.3. Details on the online edition
http://www.legilux.public.lu/
See also point 1.1
| Functionalities |
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| Format description |
XML HTML, PDF and RDF
DOCX (2021) |
| Authenticity |
PDF is signed by an electronic seal |
| Archiving |
Not applicable |
1.4. Details on the publishing institution
Service central de législation
(Central Legislative Service)
For contact details, see point 1.1
| Form and nature |
Public (governmental agency within the Ministry of State) |
| Basic tasks |
- Pre-press: no
- Printing: no
- Dissemination/distribution: yes, online
- Legal gazette online: yes
- Legislation database: yes
- Consolidation: yes
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| Other services offered |
Administrative and legal procedural advice to Ministries |
1.5. Drafting and publishing procedures
Text processing
systems |
- The Service central de législation uses XML Editing tools for structuring the legislation before publishing. All formats are rendered from the XML
- The database, a triple Store, stores all RDF
- Information is either available on the human readable site http://www.legilux.public.lu or on the machine readable site http://data.legilux.public.lu/
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| Workflow |
Transfer of drafts of laws between the different ministries and the Service central de législation takes place electronically |
| Publishing |
- The ministry originating the act is responsible for proofreading
- The Service central de législation checks the legal references
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2. Collections of consolidated Legislation
See full details >>
Textes coordonnés in the Legilux portal
http://www.legilux.public.lu
(see also point 3)
Body carrying out
consolidation |
The Service central de législation carries out all consolidation
Systematic consolidation has started in September 2020 |
| Content |
n/a |
Status of the
consolidated texts |
Consolidation texts have no legal value and are for information purposes only. Except for Codes, not Code–Recueil, like Code Civil, Code Pénal etc. |
| Access |
Free-of-charge online edition |
Deadline for
consolidation |
There is no specific deadline for consolidation to take place |
3. Legislative portals and online databases
3.1. Official portals
3.2. Official databases
3.3. Additional information: other commonly used legal databases
