2. Structure of a legal act – 2.7. Subdivisions of acts

in Article 2(1) (refers to a numbered paragraph in a different article). Subparagraph (), in the first, second, third subparagraph ISSN1831-5380 Sitemap|Legalnotice|Cookies|FAQ|Contact|Printpage Europa>PublicationsOffice >Styleguide>I.OfficialJournal>2.Structureofalegalact HomeContentsNewsIndexUsefullinks PDFversion 2.7.Subdivisionsofacts Nameofsubdivision Numbering Referenceinthetext Acts Preamble (1) Citation (1)   inthefirstcitation Numberedrecital (1) (1),(2) inrecital1 (2) Unnumberedrecital (1)   inthefirstrecital (2) Enactingterms(3) Article(3) SoleArticle Article1,2 intheSoleArticle inArticle1,2 Numberedparagraph(3) 1.,2. inparagraph1,2(wheninthesamearticle) inArticle2(1)(referstoanumberedparagraphinadifferentarticle)    Subparagraph (4)   inthefirst,second,thirdsubparagraph in[Article1(1),]secondsubparagraph Unnumberedparagraph   inthefirst,second,thirdparagraph in[Article1,]firstparagraph Point(3) (a),(b) (i),(ii) (1),(2) inpoint(a),(b) inpoint(i),(ii) inpoint(1),(2) in[Article1(1),firstsubparagraph,]point(a)(i)(1) Indent(emrule/emdash) (5) — inthefirst,secondindent in[Article1(1),firstsubparagraph,point(a)(i)(1),]firstindent Annex   Annex AnnexI,II(orAnnexA,B) intheAnnex inAnnexI,II(orAnnexA,B)(totheact) Appendix   Appendix Appendix1,2 intheAppendix inAppendix1,2(totheAnnex) Othersubdivisions Part PartI,II (orPartOne,Two) inPartI,II (orPartOne,Two) Title TitleI,II inTitleI,II in[PartI,]TitleI Chapter ChapterI,II (orChapter1,2) inChapterI,II (orChapter1,2) in[PartI,TitleI,]ChapterI Section Section1,2 inSection1,2 in[PartI,TitleI,ChapterI,]Section1 Point (6) I,II(orA,B) I.(orA.or1.) inpointI,II(orpointA,B) inpointI(orpointAorpoint1) (1) SeeSection2.2. (2) Before7 February2000,whenrecitalswereunnumbered:inthefirst,secondrecital. (3) Wherearticles,numberedparagraphsorothersubdivisionsthatareidentifiedbyanumberoraletterareinsertedintotheenactingtermsofanexistingact,theyaregiventhenumberorletteroftheprecedingsubdivisionofthesamelevelinadditiontotheletter‘a’,‘b’,‘c’,‘d’,etc.SeealsoSection3.3.2. (4) Subdivisionsofanumberedparagraph. (5) BeforetheintroductionoftheXML-baseddraftingtoolEdITin2021,indentscouldbeusedasafirstlevelinlists. (6) Usedincertainrecommendations,resolutions,declarationsandstatements. NB: — Referencetotheintroductoryphrasemaybemadebywordssuchas‘atthebeginningof’,‘theintroductorywordsof’or‘theintroductorypartof’.Theintroductoryphraseendswithacolon. — Thesubdivisionsinthistablearenotclassifiedinafixedorder.Theordercanvaryaccordingtothenatureofthetext. SeetheVisualGuide–OfficialJournaltypographicalrules. Lastupdated: 1.6.2021