Council Regulation (EU) 2024/741 of 20 February 2024 amending Regulation (EU) No 216/2013 on the electronic publication of the Official Journal of the European Union

‘1 The electronic edition of the Official Journal shall be published under technical conditions ensuring the authenticity, integrity and inalterability of its content. The system put into place to ensure authenticity shall be documented on the EUR-Lex website and allow for the authenticity of the electronic edition of the Official Journal to be easily verified.’

‘4 Where certain information in the Official Journal is to be removed after publication pursuant to a decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union or in order to protect personal data in accordance with Union legal acts, in particular Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council , a new version of the electronic edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be made available, accompanied by a notice to that effect. The original version of the electronic edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be kept in the archives of the Publications Office for an unlimited period under technical and organisational conditions which ensure that the original version can be disclosed only in accordance with Union law.

1 Where it is not possible to publish the electronic edition of the Official Journal on the EUR-Lex website due to an unforeseen and exceptional disruption of the information systems involved, the edition of the Official Journal concerned shall be published in printed form. That edition shall be authentic and shall produce legal effects.

2 Once the information systems referred to in paragraph 1 are restored, the electronic edition of the Official Journal corresponding to the edition published in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be made available on the EUR-Lex website. From that moment on, it shall be considered to be the only authentic edition and shall produce legal effects.

3 The electronic editions of the Official Journal corresponding to the authentic printed editions of the Official Journal published after 1 July 2013 shall be considered to be the only authentic editions from 14 March 2024.’.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.