A European Documentation Centre (EDC) is a body designated by the European Commission to collect and disseminate publications of the European Union for the purposes of research and education. There are 400 such centers in all member states of the EU. The mandate of an EDC is to receive all official EU publications, documents, contracts and electronic databases then make them available to researchers, educators, students, and interested members of the general public.
European Documentation Centres were founded in 1963 by the European Commission. They are predominantly located at universities, university libraries, affiliated academic institutions, and non-university research institutes, both public and private.
The first EDC in Hungary was founded in 1988, at the ELTE Faculty of Law, Department of Private International Law. The collection was placed to the Faculty Library in 2012.
The EDC collection is accessible in the Reading Room.