Snapshot
Direct official links, historical-version discipline and a practical method for reading EU legislation.
Module status
- •Track: Official sources
- •Last verified: 2026-07-31
- •Legal cut-off: Legislation adopted before 28 May 2024.
- •Scope: Independent competition training; official sources always prevail.
How to read this database
Use a three-pass method. First locate the governing instrument. Then read scope, definitions and allocation of responsibility. Finally test safeguards, derogations and review rights. Recitals explain context but do not replace operative provisions.
Competition sources
- •Original notice
- •Amending notice
- •Corrigendum to the amendment
- •EPSO clarification on the 28 May 2024 legal cut-off
- •EPSO written-test anchors
Crisis-management core
- •Union Civil Protection Mechanism, Decision 1313/2013/EU
- •2021 UCPM amendment strengthening rescEU
- •Integrated Political Crisis Response arrangements
- •Implementation of the solidarity clause
- •Serious cross-border threats to health
- •NIS2 Directive
Migration and internal-security core
- •Schengen Borders Code, version relevant at the cut-off
- •Frontex Regulation
- •Return Directive
- •Temporary Protection Directive
- •Europol Regulation
- •PNR Directive
- •Prüm II Regulation
Temporal discipline
The consolidated Schengen link is useful for navigation, but a consolidated text can contain amendments after the exam cut-off. For a historical question, open the instrument's document information and select the version applicable on 28 May 2024. The June 2024 Schengen Borders Code amendment, for example, falls outside the EPSO cut-off.
Citation discipline
A sound answer states: actor, power, trigger, action and safeguard. “The EU handles borders” is too vague. “A Member State controls its external-border section under the Schengen Borders Code, supported by Frontex within Regulation 2019/1896 and subject to fundamental rights” is analytically usable.