About the Legislative Train

The 'Legislative Train Schedule' website offers an easy way to follow the work of the EU institutions on the various legislative and non-legislative elements that form the major part of their work programme. Using the visual metaphor of railways, the website allows users – Members and Parliament staff, as well as a broader public audience – to monitor the progress of legislative files during the current European Parliament term and also in the past two terms.

Following the 2024 European elections, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, outlined the seven political priorities that would shape the work of the Commission over her second five-year mandate, from 2024 to 2029:

• A NEW PLAN FOR EUROPE'S SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY AND COMPETITIVENESS,
• A NEW ERA FOR EUROPEAN DEFENCE AND SECURITY,
• SUPPORTING PEOPLE, STRENGTHENING OUR SOCIETIES AND OUR SOCIAL MODEL,
• SUSTAINING OUR QUALITY OF LIFE: FOOD SECURITY, WATER AND NATURE,
• PROTECTING OUR DEMOCRACY, UPHOLDING OUR VALUES,
• A GLOBAL EUROPE: LEVERAGING OUR POWER AND PARTNERSHIPS and
• DELIVERING TOGETHER AND PREPARING OUR UNION FOR THE FUTURE.

Users can follow the progress of legislative files under each of these seven priorities (and also, in the archive, look back at the legislative work under the 10 priorities set by the Juncker Commission for 2014 to 2019, and the six priorities of the first von der Leyen mandate, from 2019 to 2024). In an alternative view, users can track the proposals assigned to each of the Parliament's standing committees. The status assigned to each proposal allows for an overall assessment of progress of files per priority or committee.

The information available in the Legislative Train Schedule is updated on a monthly basis, and users can go back in time to see the status of each carriage in previous months. While the site has been designed as an online tool, users may also download a printable pdf version of the text covering each legislative proposal.