The European Commission adopted more than 1,000 new legal acts in the last year alone
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- Omissions
- The claim does not specify which types of legal acts are included (legislative acts, delegated acts, implementing acts, or all categories combined)
- EUR-Lex statistics distinguish between different categories of acts, and the total number varies significantly depending on classification
- The MEP could not have known the final complete 2025 statistics at the time of the speech (February 2026), as some data may still have been provisional
- The data was sourced from a primary official database (EUR-Lex) but the specific figure for 2025 requires accessing JavaScript-protected statistics pages
- Sources
- PrimaryEUR-Lex Legal Acts StatisticsEUR-Lex maintains official statistics on legal acts adopted, repealed and expired by month and year. The 2025 statistics page tracks all categories of EU legal acts including legislative acts, delegated acts, and implementing acts.
- TertiaryFabian Bohnenberger blog citing Draghi report dataAccording to the Draghi report, the EU passed 515 ordinary legislative acts, 2,431 other legislative acts, 954 delegated acts, totaling well over 1,000 acts per year in recent periods