The task of the OIDE Internet service of the European Affairs and International Cooperation Bureau is to provide support to parliamentarians and to the staff of the Chancellery of the Sejm in their search for European information. The OIDE website facilitates access to sources and documentation concerning the functioning of the European Union and, above all, the Sejm's activities in matters relating to Poland's membership of the EU. 

Presenting the European activities of the Sejm, the OIDE service provides information on:

• Sejm debates and resolutions in EU matters,
• work of the EU Affairs Committee, especially on proposals of legal acts and other documents – section EU Documents in the Sejm and EDL-S database (European Legislative Documents in the Sejm),
• interparliamentary cooperation of the Sejm in European matters – section Interparliamentary Cooperation.

The issue of subsidiarity check constitutes a separate section on the website, containing information on both the Sejm proceedings (resolutions on non-compliance of EU legislative proposals with the subsidiarity principle) and its interparliamentary cooperation level (IPEX database), making it possible to trigger the procedure of so-called yellow or orange card.

Review of the Sejm's European activities is published every month in the Biuletyn OIDE (also in English version).

Information about the European Union is provided through:

• organizing and facilitating access to EU information presented in europa.eu, the official website of the European Union, including EU legal acts and other documents,
• monitoring the changes in the information sources,
• offering on the website bibliographies of selected subjects important from parliamentary point of view, links to specialist periodicals and publications of research centres as well as to news services.

The OIDE website is also an archive containing information on the activity of the Sejm of the previous terms in EU matters (including the parliamentary dimension of the Polish EU Council Presidency 2011).

We invite to address every question concerning information on the OIDE website to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.