General information

The dataset of EU laws downloaded with scRapEU contains 19631 distinct procedures initiated between 1992-09-02 and 2024-06-20.

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

 #Total   Completed   Pending   Rejected   Withdrawn 
 procedure_macrotype 
   Budget  1612 1549 2 58
   EP Initiatives  9108 9056 2 50
   EP Internal  534 534
   Non-legislative  957 724 162 71
   Ordinary  2673 2259 174 5 235
   Quasi-legislative  1892 1849 2 16 25
   Special  2855 2561 60 232
   #Total cases  19631 18532 402 71 621

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 5 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 #Total   Completed   Pending   Rejected   Withdrawn 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 96.3 0.1 3.6
   EP Initiatives  100 99.4 0.0 0.5
   EP Internal  100 100.0
   Non-legislative  100 75.7 16.9 7.4
   Ordinary  100 84.5 6.5 0.2 8.8
   Quasi-legislative  100 97.7 0.1 0.8 1.3
   Special  100 89.8 2.1 8.1
   #Total cases  19631 18532 402 71 621

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 10753 procedures for which it has not been possible to retrieve a text of the summary of the initiating document. Among the 18532 completed procedures, 12587 are missing the summary of the final act.

Similarly, there are 12310 procedures for which it has not been possible to retrieve a text of the initiating document, and 13054 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”.↩︎