Register of groups advising the Commission for the preparation and implementation of legislation and policies, and of other consultative entities managed by the Commission.

Short explanation & infographic setting out: (1) how the EU's long-term priorities are set at the start of the 5-yearly institutional cycle through the adoption of the European Council's Strategic Agenda and the Commission's Political Guidelines. (2) how these long-term priorities translate into the annual work programme of the Commission.

European Commission consultation website

Find essential information on Commission DGs and other services: organisational chart, strategic and management plans setting out main priorities and outputs, annual activity reports.

Official directory of the EU

Search press material from the Commission Spokesperson's Service

Tentative agendas for forthcoming meetings and agendas & minutes of past meetings of the College of Commissioners. Proposals, impact assessments, communications, delegated and implementing acts and other Commission decisions.

Political guidelines presented by Ursula von der Leyen to the European Parliament in 2019 and links to the six political priorities of the current Commission.

Understand the different parts of EU legislative acts and the principles that guide their drafting and amending.

The European Citizens Initiative (ECI) allows one million citizens residing in one quarter of the Member States to invite the Commission to submit a legislative proposal.

Work programmes of the Commission from 2007 to 2022. The annexes list the new initiatives for each political priority as well as revisions, evaluations, fitness checks of existing regulations, pending proposals that will be prioritised or withdrawn, and existing legislation which the Commission proposes to repeal.

Presentation of Commissioners and their teams. Additional information: portfolio, allocation of services, mission letter, EP confirmation hearing, calendar, meetings with stakeholders, declaration of interests.

Understand the decision-making process for secondary legislation.

Register of EU law, EU case law and parliamentary questions. Includes a feature to search by EU lawmaking procedures. Also includes a register of national law and case law of Member states.

Map stakeholders and interest groups, the human and financial resources they allocate to influencing the EU institutions, who they are meeting and their responses to Commission public consultations. See also LobbyFacts.eu and EU Integrity Watch.

The Commission's Better Regulation agenda is meant to ensure EU law-making is evidence-based, transparent and based on the views of stakeholders. The toolbox contains detailed advice for each step in the policy cycle based on the Better Regulation guidelines.

National parliaments have a role in EU decision-making through the subsidiarity control mechanism. Access reasoned opinions of national parliaments on Commission proposals and Commission replies. See also IPEX and REGPEX.

The Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) is an independent body within the Commission that provides quality control on draft impact assessments, fitness checks, and on major evaluations of existing legislation.

Read or watch the annual September address of the president of the Commission to the European Parliament setting out the achievements of the past year and the priorities for the coming years. The speech is accompanied by a 'letter of intent' to the president of the EP and the presidency of the Council triggering discussions on joint priorities (see EU Agenda: Joint declaration of the EP, Council and Commission on legislative priorities for 2023-2024).

Consult the outcome of requests for access to documents of EU institutions under Regulation 2001/1049 or file your own request. AskTheEU.org is a civil society open source platform run by Access Info Europe. Requests can also be filed via the website of the institution holding the documents.