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What Lex is

Lex shows the Luxembourg and EU law it holds as the publishers published it: a text as it stood on the date you choose, how each article of a Luxembourg act changed, and a citation anyone can check against the official source.

Lex shows the published text of the law. It does not tell you whether or how it applies to your situation and is not legal advice.

For what a text means for you, or what you should do, ask a lawyer or another adviser of your choice.

What Lex does not do

• It does not apply the law to anyone's situation, compute a deadline or an amount, or say who is right.
• It does not say what a change means in effect, predict a decision or draft a text.
• It makes no consolidation of its own: every consolidated text it shows is the publisher's.
• It holds no case law and no court decisions.
• It never chooses between two versions for you when the publisher's dates leave both possible and their texts differ, and never fills a gap between versions.
• It keeps no record of who reads it or of what is searched.

When Lex cannot answer

When Lex cannot give the answer you asked for, it says why, in one plain sentence first: for example, that it holds no version of the act for the date you chose, that two versions cover that date and the publisher does not say which one applies, or that the licence of a file keeps its text off the site. Then it says what would answer instead, such as the nearest dates it holds, and gives the official link.

Such an answer is about what Lex holds, never about the law: a text missing from Lex may exist at the publisher.

When the site itself fails, it says so in other words: “Lex could not complete this request. This is not an answer about the law.” Try again, or go to the official sites below.

After the sentence come the refusal's code and its details, for programs; the Developers page lists every code.

Where the official texts are

Consolidated texts have no legal effect: the authentic texts are those published in the Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg (Mémorial A) and in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Every article Lex quotes names its official source, so that it can be checked there:

• legilux.public.lu, for Luxembourg law: the Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg and the consolidated texts
• eur-lex.europa.eu, for EU law: the Official Journal of the European Union

Who can advise you

Lex names no adviser: a list of who can advise you, by subject, must first be checked by a person, and has not been yet.

No contact

Lex has no contact channel: no e-mail address, no form, no telephone number and no postal address, and it names no person. No one can be reached through Lex, to ask about the law or about the site, or to report a problem, so Lex receives no message and keeps none.

To complain about how this site handles personal data, the privacy notice names the authority to turn to.

Reading Lex

The page How to read Lex explains the dates Lex shows, what a version is and the words it uses, with a glossary.