Terms of use

What Lex is

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.

It is an information service, free of charge: it shows the texts it holds, at the dates it holds them, and says so when it holds no text or no date. 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.

Using Lex

Anyone may read, search, cite and export the texts on Lex, free of charge and with no account.

The texts and their licences

Each text keeps the licence of its source: the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0) for the Luxembourg texts Lex shows, and the European Union's reuse policy (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) for the EU texts. The legal notice says where the texts come from and the acknowledgement each carries. These terms add no restriction to any reuse of the texts that their own licences allow.

No warranty

Lex is offered as it is. It does not guarantee that the texts are complete, up to date or free of errors, nor that the site is always available. Check the official text before you rely on it. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits a liability that the law does not allow to be excluded or limited.

How to cite

Cite the official text, by its official reference. Lex gives each article it quotes a citation and a permalink to the text shown, so that anyone can check the quotation against its official source.