Welcome to the Petitions Web Portal
The objective of the petitions process in the European Parliament is to ensure that you have the opportunity to communicate with Parliament and express your right to petition, which is one of the fundamental rights of all European citizens and residents, enshrined both in the Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights. Read more in the Lisbon Treaty.
Your petition allows Parliament, through its Petitions Committee, to conduct an ongoing reality check on the way in which European legislation is implemented and measure the extent to which the European institutions are responding to your concerns.
The objective of the petitions process in the European Parliament is to ensure that you have the opportunity to communicate with Parliament and express your right to petition, which is one of the fundamental rights of all European citizens and residents, enshrined both in the Treaty and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Yearly workshops and studies, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the Committee on Petitions (PETI), examine the progress made concerning disability.
The Committee on Petitions is responsible for hearing the nominees for the office of the European Ombudsman. The Committee held the hearing of the six candidates on 3 December 2024. On 17 December 2024, during the plenary in Strasbourg, the European Parliament has elected in a secret ballot the new European Ombudsman, Ms Teresa Anjinho.