EU Legal Acts Statistics by Type and Year

Detected March 20th, 2026

Summary

The European Union's EUR-Lex portal has updated its statistics on legal acts. This notice provides access to data on adopted, repealed, and expired legal acts, categorized by year and type, including basic and amending acts.

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The EUR-Lex portal has published updated statistics regarding the EU's legal acts. The data allows users to consult the number of legal acts adopted, repealed, and expired, broken down by year and month. It distinguishes between basic acts and amending acts, and covers acts that are currently in force and those no longer in force. Corrigenda are excluded from these figures.

This is a routine statistical update and does not impose new obligations on regulated entities. Compliance officers may use this data for informational purposes to understand the volume and types of legislation being enacted within the EU. No specific action is required.

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Legal acts – statistics

Consult, by year and by month, the number of legal acts adopted in a given month as well as those repealed and expired in a given month.

For adopted acts, both those in force and those no longer in force are covered. There
are separate figures for basic acts and amending acts (acts amending previously adopted
acts*). The figures are based on the date an act was adopted. Corrigenda are excluded.
The figures for repealed acts and expired acts are based on the end of validity date.
Non-legislative acts are in italics.

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| | Adopted acts | |
| --- | --- | |
| Basic | Amending | |
| | | |
| 4 | 6 | |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | 7 | |
| | | |
| 2 | 5 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 42 | 20 | |
| 44 | 25 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| 1 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 1 | 0 | |
| | | |
| 1 | 16 | |
| 18 | 4 | |
| 103 | 63 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 41 | 40 | |
| 163 | 123 | |
| | | |
| 2 | 15 | |
| 0 | 3 | |
| 76 | 4 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | 0 | |
| 88 | 22 | |

For bibliographical reasons, an act is classified as an amending act if according to its title it amends one or more acts, even if it also contains autonomous provisions.

** The vast majority of decisions have addressees (a Member State, a group of Member
States, one or more companies). According to Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning
of the European Union (TFEU) a decision which specifies those to whom it is addressed
shall be binding only on them.

*** Ephemeral acts are excluded. Acts related to day-to-day management of agricultural
matters (‘ephemeral acts’) are generally valid for a limited period of time. Since
1 March 2011 they have been mainly adopted as Commission implementing regulations.
Before that date they were mainly adopted as Commission regulations.

**** ECB Guidelines are legal instruments adopted in accordance with Article 12.1 of the
Protocol (No 4) on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European
Central Bank