The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer and a copyright notice . Published in the 11 Community languages, it is intended to serve, in all the institutions, as a reference tool for written works. Its development required the establishment of an interinstitutional steering committee, which designated representatives for each institution and for each language. This drafting code is the result of their work. There was plenty of material to begin with.
Any organisation producing documents develops, sooner or later, reference tools for internal use.
These provided a good basis to work from. To harmonise sometimes divergent practices, taking into account the fact that the institutions are multilingual, texts in all official languages had to be comparable while, at the same time, the specific character of each language had to be kept. In theory, the uniform conventions which have been kept must be used at all stages of the written procedure rather than any other solution proposed elsewhere or used previously. We realise that this publication is not perfect and that it will be amended and supplemented.