How to use the platform
By offering a “three-windows-structure”, the platform provides you with summarizing texts, related documents, background information, links and glossary terms. Therefore, you can easily compose your individual ‘information package’, depending on your specific interests.
The “three-windows-structure” in detail:
Window 1, left hand side of the screen: Summary of all relevant information (main text of the unit). At the bottom of each page, selected links to relevant research institutes and publications are listed.
Window 2, upper right hand side: Additional explanations, documents, illustrative tables and graphs. These elements can be activated by clicking on links in the main text (Example!). The links for Window 2 are marked in red letters.
Window 3, down right hand side: Short explanations for selected glossary terms. The glossary terms can be activated by clicking on links in the main text (Example!). The links for the glossary terms are marked in red italics.
The “three-windows-structure” in detail:
Window 1, left hand side of the screen: Summary of all relevant information (main text of the unit). At the bottom of each page, selected links to relevant research institutes and publications are listed.
Window 2, upper right hand side: Additional explanations, documents, illustrative tables and graphs. These elements can be activated by clicking on links in the main text (Example!). The links for Window 2 are marked in red letters.
Window 3, down right hand side: Short explanations for selected glossary terms. The glossary terms can be activated by clicking on links in the main text (Example!). The links for the glossary terms are marked in red italics.
Please note: Some of the tables of the unit can be displayed in a larger size by clicking on the symbol “magnifying glass”. An additional window will then be opened in which the respective table is displayed in a larger size.
The user can proceed to the next page or go back to the previous page by clicking on the blue arrows at the top and at the bottom of each page.
The user can navigate through the unit by clicking on “contents” at the top of each page. Moreover, where appropriate, direct links to other chapters of the unit are integrated in the main text.
In order to optimize the display of the three-windows-structure, the resolution should be adjusted to 1024 x 768. The respective adjustments can be done via “system control/ display/ settings”.
The user can navigate through the unit by clicking on “contents” at the top of each page. Moreover, where appropriate, direct links to other chapters of the unit are integrated in the main text.
In order to optimize the display of the three-windows-structure, the resolution should be adjusted to 1024 x 768. The respective adjustments can be done via “system control/ display/ settings”.
Important note:
At the time of updating this unit (January 2008), there was no official version of the consolidated Treaties, i.e. the Treaty of the European Union and the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union, taking into account the changes of the Lisbon Treaty in terms of substance and numeration of treaty articles.
The authors of the unit, however, have decided to provide the reader with provisional consolidated versions of selected, central Treaty articles. A readable Treaty text is considered to be the base for a substantive understanding of the institutional changes as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty. The numbering of the articles follows the tables of equivalences set out in the annex of the Lisbon Treaty (cf. art. 5, para 1 Lisbon Treaty and the related annex) on which the official final version of the Treaties will be based, too. Despite the authors’ efforts to produce correct consolidated versions of selected articles, it has to be stressed once again that they do not represent final official versions.
At the time of updating this unit (January 2008), there was no official version of the consolidated Treaties, i.e. the Treaty of the European Union and the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union, taking into account the changes of the Lisbon Treaty in terms of substance and numeration of treaty articles.
The authors of the unit, however, have decided to provide the reader with provisional consolidated versions of selected, central Treaty articles. A readable Treaty text is considered to be the base for a substantive understanding of the institutional changes as laid down in the Lisbon Treaty. The numbering of the articles follows the tables of equivalences set out in the annex of the Lisbon Treaty (cf. art. 5, para 1 Lisbon Treaty and the related annex) on which the official final version of the Treaties will be based, too. Despite the authors’ efforts to produce correct consolidated versions of selected articles, it has to be stressed once again that they do not represent final official versions.
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The authors are not responsible for the content of any referenced or linked off-site page and is not liable for that content. The risk of injury rests entirely with the user. Links from the teaching unit web pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement from the authors. These links are provided as an information service only.
The authors do not accept liability for the relevance, accuracy or completeness of the information and material offered in its web site. This refers to any loss, additional costs or damage of any kind suffered as a result of any use of any material in this web site.
This teaching unit may sometimes refer to or offer content supplied by a third party. Any content expressed or made available by a third party is that of the third party and does not necessarily reflect that of the authors.
The authors are not responsible for the content of any referenced or linked off-site page and is not liable for that content. The risk of injury rests entirely with the user. Links from the teaching unit web pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement from the authors. These links are provided as an information service only.