General information

The dataset of EU laws downloaded with scRapEU contains 19640 distinct procedures initiated between 1992-09-02 and 2024-04-25.

The following table shows the number of procedures by decision procedure used and status:1

 #Total   Completed   Pending   Rejected   Withdrawn 
 procedure_macrotype 
   Budget  1612 1543 4 58
   EP Initiatives  9122 9024 48 50
   EP Internal  544 533 11
   Non-legislative  953 711 173 69
   Ordinary  2664 2210 216 5 233
   Quasi-legislative  1891 1798 52 16 25
   Special  2854 2560 64 230
   #Total cases  19640 18379 568 71 615

Note that in all tables if the value reported under “#Total” does not coincide with the number of distinct procedures, it means that there are some missing values on the variables used in the table (see below the section “Information on missing data”). In the current stage of development, there are 0 missing instance for the type of procedure, 685 for the legal instrument, and 7 for the status of the procedure.

The table below reports the row percentages, by grouping variable:

 #Total   Completed   Pending   Rejected   Withdrawn 
 procedure_macrotype 
   Budget  100 96.1 0.2 3.6
   EP Initiatives  100 98.9 0.5 0.5
   EP Internal  100 98.0 2.0
   Non-legislative  100 74.6 18.2 7.2
   Ordinary  100 83.0 8.1 0.2 8.7
   Quasi-legislative  100 95.1 2.7 0.8 1.3
   Special  100 89.7 2.2 8.1
   #Total cases  19640 18379 568 71 615

The figures below show the trend over time of both the usage of a particular decision-making procedure, with the second figure focusing on ordinary and special legislative procedures only:

The following shows the distribution of the main legal instruments over time.

Textual information extracted

There are 10776 procedures for which it has not been possible to retrieve a text of the summary of the initiating document. Among the 18379 completed procedures, 12485 are missing the summary of the final act.

Similarly, there are 11543 procedures for which it has not been possible to retrieve a text of the initiating document, and 12929 of the completed procedure with missing text of the final act.

The missing proposals are distributed across years as follows:

And across decision procedure as follows:

  1. The types of procedures have been grouped using the macro-categories available on the OEIL website. Namely, “Ordinary” legislative procedure contains “COD” acts, “Special” legislative procedure contains “CNS”, “APP”, “AVC”, and “SYN” acts, “Budget” procedures are “BUD”, “DEC”, and “BUI”, “Non-legislative” procedure is “NLE”, “EP Initiatives” contains “INL”, “INI”, “RSP”, “DCE”, and “COS”, “EP Internal” procedures are “REG”, “IMM”, and “RSO”, and, finally, “Quasi-legislative” procedures are “INS”, “ACI”, “DEA”, and “RPS”.↩︎