To make this site work properly, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

How do we use cookies?

A number of our pages use cookies that are not strictly necessary for the website to work but will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended. These cookies are used to remember:

-Your display preferences, such as browsing language, contrast colour, font size, device used, search results preferences and notification preferences.
-Your latest visit on the website (for statistical purposes) and the 3 latest pages visited (to help our helpdesk in case you send a request)
-If you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site
Also, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on how you got there and what videos you visited.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

Private data: the cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

Third party cookies: we do not allow third party services on our website to send cookies to the users.

How to control cookies?

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your device and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Refuse cookies

You can easily accept or reject the cookies on this site by choosing one of the following links:

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(*) You can only refuse cookies that are not strictly necessary. Some cookies are strictly necessary in order to enable you to use this website. Without these cookies, we will not be able to provide certain features, such as automatic sign into the EU law and publications website.