Summary
An analysis of the European Parliament's Committee on Petitions activities in 2015, covering petition statistics, key themes like environmental protection and fundamental rights, and institutional cooperation. 10 15.12.2016
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civil law
environment
human rights
social policy
administrative law
public administration
Key points
- In 2015, the Committee received 1,431 petitions, of which 943 were considered admissible for further consideration.
- The most frequent topics raised by citizens included environmental protection, justice, the internal market, and fundamental rights.
- Petitions serve as a vital tool for detecting how EU laws are being applied or if they are being ignored by Member States.
- A new web portal was introduced to allow citizens to track their petitions and support others, though it faced technical delays.
These raw data are provided by the Open Data Portal of the European Union (data.europa.eu) and are licensed under ODC-BY 1.0.