List of European Union directives

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This list of European Union Directives is ordered by theme to follow EU law. For a date based list, see the Category:European Union directives by number.

From 1 January 1992 to 31 December 2014, numbers assigned by the General Secretariat of the Council followed adoption, for instance: Directive 2010/75/EU.^[1] Since 2015, acts have been numbered following the pattern (domain) YYYY/N, for instance "Regulation (EU) 2016/1627" with

• domain being "EU" for the European Union, "Euratom" for the European Atomic Energy Community, "EU, Euratom" for the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, "CFSP" for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
• year being the 4 digit year
• the sequential number.^[2]

Some older directives had an ordinal number in their name, for instance: "First Council Directive 73/239/EEC".