Council of European Union_F&F_2025_Legal acts STA

In 2023, the Council adopted a total of 714 legal acts – regulations, directives or decisions. This included 79 legislative acts (that is, following a legislative procedure as set out in the Treaties). Most of these were adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure, with Parliament co-deciding with the Council. A few followed a special legislative procedure, with Parliament either required to give its consent or being consulted for its opinion.
In addition, the Council adopted a total of 635 non-legislative acts. Whereas legislative acts are in most cases of general application, non-legislative acts are usually of direct interest to specific persons or bodies only.
The graphic below depicts the legislative (right) and non-legislative acts (left) adopted by the Council from 2019 to 2024.