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1. Legal Gazette

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)
5 rue Plaetis L-2338 - Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Tel. +352 24782958
E-mail: info@legilux.public.lu
Website: http://www.legilux.public.lu

 

 

Official journal / legal gazette

 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
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

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
Legal basis
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
Format description XML HTML, PDF and RDF
DOCX (2021)
Authenticity PDF is signed by an electronic seal
Archiving Not applicable

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
Other services offered Administrative and legal procedural advice to Ministries

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/
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

2. Collections of consolidated Legislation

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

Legilux
http://www.legilux.public.lu

Organisation
responsible

Service central de législation
Content n/a

Legilux portal:
http://www.legilux.public.lu and http://data.legilux.public.lu/

Organisation
responsible		 Service central de législation
Content n/a
Access Free of charge
Access via N-Lex (see Annex 2) No

Linked Open Data database http://data.legilux.public.lu/