This collection should satisfy the need of practitioners for access to the private law of the European Community, as the obligation to interpret national law in conformity with EC directives often requires a comparison with Community legislation. At the same time the collection will facilitate analysis and may thereby contribute to an improvement of the texts and their understanding. The collection does not reproduce the entire private law of the Community; it includes enactments that exclusively or mainly concern private law. The collection reproduces acts which can essentially be classified under six headings: (1) the law of companies and undertakings; (2) labour law; (3) the law of obligations, which mainly comprises measures of consumer protection; (4) the law of advertising; (5) copyright law and (6) the law of industrial property. Parts (1) and (2) can be found in Volume I. The European acts are binding in many languages.