Codebook

A. Member States are Coded as Follows:

Austria - A 
Belgium - B 
Germany - D 
Denmark - DK 
Spain - E 
Hellas - EL 
France - F 
Finland - FIN 
Italy - I 
Ireland - IRL 
Luxembourg - L 
Netherlands - NL 
Portugal - P 
Sweden - S 
United Kingdom - UK

B. Sectors are Coded as Follows:

Agriculture - AGR 
Competition - COM 
Consumer Policy - CONS 
Education - EDU 
Environment - ENV 
Enterprise Policy, Tourism - EPT 
Energy - ERG 
External Affairs - EXT 
Fisheries - FISH 
INTERNAL MARKET/Budgets - IM/BU 
INTERNAL MARKET/Company Law - IM/CL 
INTERNAL MARKET/Customs Union and Taxation - IM/CUTX 
INTERNAL MARKET/Economic & Social Affairs - IM/EFA 
INTERNAL MARKET/Financial Institutions &Services - IM/FI 
INTERNAL MARKET/Industry (Free Movement of Goods, Union Citizenship) - IM/IND 
Justice - JUS 
Legal Service - LS 
Personnel - PER 
Research & Development - R&D 
Regional Policies and Cohesion - REG 
Social Affairs - SA 
Secretariat General - SG 
Statistics - STAT 
Telecommunications - TEL 
Transport - TRAN 
Television - TV  
 

C. Sources of Infridgement are Coded as Follows:

Violation (only to Treaty Provisions and Regulations) - V  
No Notification, No Communication (only to Directives) - NMN 
Implementation Problem, No Proper Implementation (only to Directives) - NPI 
Application Problem, No Proper Application (only to Directives) - NPA 

D. Legal Acts are Coded as Follows:

Treaty Provisions - TP 
Regulations - R 
Directives - DIR 
Decisions of the Commission - DC 
Judgements - J 

E. Stages of the Infridgement proceedings are Coded as Follows:

Article 169 Letter Decided - 169LD 
Article 169 Letter Sent - 169LS 
Article 169 Reasoned Opinion Decided - 169RS 
Article 169 Reasoned Opinion Sent - 169RS 
Article 169 ECJ Referral Decided - 169CD 
Article 169 ECJ Referral Sent - 169CS 
Article 169 ECJ Judgement - 169CJ 
Article 171 Letter Decided - 171LD 
Article 171 Letter Sent - 171LS 
Article 171 Reasoned Opinion Decided - 171RD 
Article 171 Reasoned Opinion Sent - 171RS 
Article 171 ECJ Referral Decided - 171CD 
Article 171 ECJ Referral sent - 171CS 
Article 171 ECJ Judgement - 171CJ 
Termination - TERM 
Withdrawn - WD

F. Outcomes of ECJ Judgments are Coded as Follows:

In favour of the Commission - PROCOM 
In favour of the Member State - PROMEM