The objective of the emis project is the conception and realization of a multilingualinformation system on European media law with the following functionalities: search by words, a combination of words, phrases or keywords, guided search by using a so-called thematic structure, retrieval ofdocuments indi erent languages with one monolingualquery by using language processing and MT technology, exploitation of additional information for the retrieved documents, which is stored in a database. structured representations of the document archive, the so-called dogmatic structure, multilingual user interface. The core component of emis is the multilingual cross language retrieval which is enhanced by linguistic processing i.e. by a morpho-syntactic analysis applied to the documents and to the queries and the relevant bilingual dictionaries. The languages covered by the project are German, English and French. System Description/Demo 1