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Advocacy Toolbox

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. Requests can also be filed via the website of the institution holding the documents.

All information on work at Committee level including calendar of meetings, documents, broadcasts, results of votes and hearings.

Find out the membership and calendar of meetings of the delegations of the EP to joint parliamentary assemblies, bilateral inter-parliamentary committees and third countries.

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.

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

Synopsis and state of play of all legislative and non-legislative files handled by the EP with links to key documents.

Scrapes information from the EP website and allows you to track information on MEPs, legislative files, amendments, votes and committee agendas.

Identify coordinators and advisors for each EP committee

Identify coordinators (see 'Our MEPs') and advisors (see 'EP Committees') for each EP committee .

Access to the various steps in the preparation, adoption, scrutiny and publication of secondary legislation. Calendar of meetings of expert groups advising the Commission on Delegated Acts.

What interests are being pursued, by whom and with what budgets? See also lobbyfacts.eu and www.integritywatch.eu

Calendar of EP plenaries, committee meeting weeks, group meeting weeks and constituency weeks in 2022.

Committee meeting agendas and documents.

Directory of MEPs by country, political group and committee, and of their assistants

Independent and impartial non-judicial body that holds the EU’s institutions and agencies to account. File a complaint to report maladministration by an institution. Read the reports of the Ombudsman's proactive investigations on systemic issues.

List of intergroups officially approved by the EP. They focus on specific topics and bring together MEPs of different political groups and stakeholders. Many other non-registered cross-party groups exist, see 'MEP-industry forums' and genuine MEP-led groups such as https://responsiblebusinessconduct.eu.

Corporate Europe Observatory table of unofficial industry-led cross-party groups. Genuine MEP-led groups also exist such as https://responsiblebusinessconduct.eu. See also 'Intergroups'.

Plenary agendas, documents, broadcasts, voting lists and results.

Identify coordinators (see 'Members') and advisors (see 'Staff') for each EP committee .

Identify coordinators (see 'Members') and advisors (see 'Team') for each EP committee .

Understand the decision-making process for secondary legislation.

Weekly updated listing of the work in progress in each parliamentary committee.

Calendar of EP plenaries, committee meeting weeks, group meeting weeks and constituency weeks in 2023

The Conference of Committee Chairs (CCC) coordinates the work of the committees. It plays an important role at the start of a legislative process as it resolves conflicts of competence between Committees. It consists of the Chairs of all committees and meets on Tuesdays during plenary weeks in Strasbourg.

Official directory of the EU

In-house think tank of the EP. Find two-pagers ('At a glance'), briefings, studies, infographics, updates on legislation in progress, check-lists to support the scrutiny of the Commission and Council by the EP.

European Parliament's database for monitoring the EU decision-making process

Register of written and oral questions adressed by MEPs, political groups and committees to the President of the European Council, the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

Identify coordinators (download 'ECR Vademecum') and advisors (go to 'Contacts') for each EP committee .

Identify coordinators (see 'Our MEPs') and advisors ('Our Staff') for each EP committee .

Rules of procedure of the European Parliament (updated January 2021)

Map MEPs by committee, country and political group, download contacts