EUR-Lex Access to European Union law
This document is an excerpt from the EUR-Lex website
Experimental features
EUR-Lex allows you try a range of new features and provide feedback before they become standard for all users.
To activate one of these experimental features:
- tick the white box next to the ‘Experimental features’ button at the top of the page;
- click on the ‘Experimental features’ button;
- select the features you want to enable;
- click on ‘Activate features selected’.
A specific icon indicates that an experimental feature is active on your page. By hovering over this icon, you can read a short description of the feature.
See below more information on the experimental features currently available.
Deep linking is a feature that makes it possible to display links to other legal acts referred to in EUR-Lex documents.
During the first phase, links can only be enabled in documents with a maximum size of 900 KB.
It is currently only available for legal acts.
You can see at a glance all the relationships between an act and the documents related to it.
In the Document information page, click Show relationship graph. The central node represents the act, with all the nodes around it representing related documents. Documents of the same type (amendments, delegated acts, consolidated versions…) have nodes of the same colour.
Nodes with a ‘+’ icon indicate that further subcategories of documents are available.
Nodes with a ‘file’ icon represent documents. Click them to go to the related document pages. When you hover over these nodes, the CELEX numbers of the documents appear. If the node represents a procedure, a specific icon is displayed.
A filter table lets you display different document categories.
It is currently only for links to treaties and case-law and is available first in English.
The links pointing to documents are normally clickable CELEX numbers. To make these links more meaningful, we are gradually replacing them with plain text.
Example: A link to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union will be TFEU (2016) instead of 12016E043.