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Home | Citizen’s Rights | Petitions to the European Parliament | Description

Petitions to the European Parliament

Legal Basis: Article 227 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (former 194 TEC).

Year this right was established:Introduced by the Treaty on European Union in 1993.

Number of Complaints:in 2011 the Committee of Petition received 2091 complaints and 998 of those were considered admissible. The petitions are presented in the field of environment, fundamental rights and internal market issues. Read the latest report.

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Have you a complaint concerning the environment, consumer protection or your rights as an EU citizen? If so you may submit a petition to the petitions’ committee of the European Parliament which will strive to provide an effective solution to any topic within EU competence.
   

Submitting a petition is simple and all you need to include is certain personal details and a full account of your complaint. Your petition may be submitted through the post or online via the Parliament’s website. If your petition is declared admissible, the Commission may be asked to take up the complaint or the petition may be referred to another committee. Alternatively, the petition’s committee may take a more active role by undertaking a fact finding mission or submitting a full report to be voted on in plenary. 

At citizenhouse.eu, we recommend using this procedure for issues concerning a one-off incident, a local problem or an individual grievance as those dealing with the complaint will have been directlyelected by you to represent your interests at an EU level.
TIP: providing as much evidence as possible to support your complaint will increase your chances of success.
   
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We further recommend that citizens group together to submit a petition to the European Parliament as this will increase the urgency and publicity surrounding a complaint.

Unlike the other procedures, the petition must affect you directly. Don’t be fazed by this however. This has been given a wide interpretation and a typical petition could deal from the impact of infrastructure on the environment to a lack of resources being made available for disabled people.