As EUR-Lex provides a gateway to all EU legislation, the N-Lex database meets the same goals on a national level. The database offers:
- an interface between users and databases on national legislation;
- a common search form enabling users to make searches in their own language;
- search results coming directly from national databases;
- descriptions of database contents and search options for each country (search fields and different types of national law);
- EuroVoc (the EU's multilingual thesaurus) which helps users to find the corresponding term in a foreign language;
- context-sensitive help;
- machine translation tool to translate search results into all official languages of the European Union.