Citing EU documents

Italicise the titles of white and green papers. Separate

the main title and the subtitle, if any, with a colon. Use initial capitals on the

first and all significant words in the main title and on the first word in the

subtitle. Launch straight into the italicised title: do not introduce it with ‘on’,

‘concerning’, ‘entitled’, etc.

In the White Paper

Growth, Competitiveness, Employment: The challenges and

ways forward into the twenty-first century

, the Commission set out a strategy …

The White Paper

Growth, Competitiveness, Employment was the first …

In

Growth, Competitiveness, Employment, on the other hand, the Commission set

in motion …

[this form might work where the White Paper had already been

mentioned, for example, or in an enumeration]

The Green Paper

Towards Fair and Efficient Pricing in Transport: Policy

options for internalising the external costs of transport in the European Union

The

Green Paper on Innovation [‘Green Paper on’ is part of its title]

Do the same with the titles of other policy statements and the like that are

published in their own right:

the communication

An Industrial Competitiveness Policy for the European

Union

[published as Bull. Suppl. 3/94]

the communication

Agenda 2000: For a stronger and wider Union [when the

reference is to the title of the document, which was published in Bull.

Suppl. 5/97; but of course we would probably say ‘an Agenda 2000 priority’ for

example]

If a policy statement has a title, but has not as far as you know been published,

put the title in inverted commas:

the communication ‘A European Strategy for Encouraging Local Development

and Employment Initiatives’

[this appeared in OJ C 265 of 12 October 1995,

and its title is cast like the title of a book, but it does not seem to have been

published in its own right]

‘Communications’ that are not policy statements, such as the announcements

which regularly appear in the Official Journal (OJ), get no italics, inverted

commas, or special capitalisation:

the Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of

Council Directive 89/686/EEC of 21 December 1989 in relation to personal

protective equipment, as amended by Council Directives 93/68/EEC, 93/95/EEC

and 96/58/EC [OJ C 180 of 14 June 1997]