EU Legal Monitor

Around 14,000 new EU legal acts per year.

The EU legal corpus, from the public data of the Publications Office (EUR-Lex CELLAR). Since 1952.

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Current pulse

The curve

From 1952 to today

This shows the cumulative corpus — everything adopted since 1952, summed up to today. The growth per period (below) drives the curve; here you see only the total. Since the Treaty of Lisbon (2009), output has accelerated noticeably.

Quarterly pulse

EU legal acts adopted per quarter

This shows the net additions, not the corpus — how many legal acts are added each quarter. The corpus (above) accumulates; this chart shows only the delta per period.

The structure

Where the mass is

Not every legal act is a regulation. CELEX distinguishes several sectors — from treaties to case law. The bulk is secondary law: regulations, directives, decisions.

The data

Year by year

The raw numbers per year — 1952 to today. From EUR-Lex CELLAR via SPARQL. Downloadable as CSV.

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