Legal acts – statistics

Consult, by year and by month, the number of new Commission proposals for legislative regulations, directives and decisions in a given month as well as those withdrawn and rejected in a given month.

There are separate figures for Commission proposals for basic acts and amending acts (acts amending previously adopted acts*). The figures are based on the date a new proposal was adopted by the Commission. Corrigenda and amended proposals are excluded.


* For bibliographical reasons, an act is classified as an amending act if according to its title it amends one or more acts, even if it also contains autonomous provisions.

** The vast majority of decisions have addressees (a Member State, a group of Member States, one or more companies). According to Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) a decision which specifies those to whom it is addressed shall be binding only on them.

Commission proposals - Basic overview

Commission proposals
for basic acts for amending acts
Commission proposals for legislative acts - Ordinary legislative procedure
Commission proposals for regulations of the European Parliament and of the Council 41 28
Commission proposals for directives of the European Parliament and of the Council 15 11
Commission proposals for decisions of the European Parliament and of the Council** 6 1
Total 62 40
Commission proposals for other legislative acts
Commission proposals for Council regulations 12 15
Commission proposals for Council directives 2 3
Commission proposals for Council decisions** 141 2
Total 155 20