The secondary legislation is based on the founding and accession Treaties and includes various forms of EU legal acts, adopted by individual or several EU institutions:

- Regulations are directly applicable and binding in all EU Member States without the need for any national implementing legislation.

- Directives bind Member States as to the objectives to be achieved within a certain time-limit while leaving the national authorities the choice of form and means of achieving them. They have to be transposed into the national legislation and implemented in accordance with the procedures of individual Member States.

- Decisions are in all respects binding for those to whom they are addressed without the need for any national implementing legislation. They may be addressed to Member States, companies or individuals.

- Decisions sui generis are addressed to all Member States.

- Recommendations and opinions are not binding.

Links:

EU Secondary Legislation in the languages of the new Member States

http://ccvista.taiex.be/download.asp

The status of the legal acts in the languages of the new Member States can have either of the four statutes: N = translation, R = national version,| U = Under finalisation,| F = Finalised version. For Slovenia, the status "R = national version" means that the text went through expert, legal, and language revisions.

The first volumes of the Special Edition of the Official Journal of the European Union in Slovene language containing EU legal acts adopted before 1 May 2004

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/JOEdSpecRep.do?year=2004