The European Union Parliament has recently introduced the Legislative Observatory, a database which includes status of legislation in progress (procedural files), commentary on parliamentary actions, citations to documents, and selected full text documents. Users can search the database by one single research criterion (by subject, reference, committee, service or state of progress of procedure) or by part-session. Procedural files typically include some identifying information, a history, authorship, statement of progress and forecast, and commentary. Note that, currently, some summaries are available only in French.