Methodology & sources
"Amendments tabled" counts every amendment where the MEP is among the listed authors. Most committee amendments are co-signed (2-11 MEPs), so an amendment is counted for each co-author. Plenary amendments (tabled by political groups) are excluded. Counts cover the 6th to 10th parliamentary terms (committee amendments machine-readable from 2008 onward). Source: Parltrack (committee amendments, attributed and dated) + the European Parliament's open data and official documents.
- “Amendments tabled” = the MEP is among the listed authors of a committee amendment. Most are co-signed by 2–11 MEPs; each co-author is counted.
- Solo amendments are those the MEP tabled alone — usually on procedures where they are rapporteur.
- Plenary amendments are excluded — they are tabled by political groups, not attributed to individuals.
- Procedure totals count distinct amendments on that procedure (a co-signed amendment is one amendment, even though it counts for each of its authors).
- Coverage: 2008 → ~July 2026 · 5 terms. Figures draw on open bulk aggregates and the Parliament’s official amendment documents, combined into a single count. Amendments tabled after the stated window are not included.
Coverage
Of the 5,228 tracked procedures, 5,083 come from the bulk dataset — the figure quoted in the site footer — and 145were first seen in the Parliament’s official amendment documents after the bulk data froze.
By parliamentary term
| Term | Years | Members | Procedures |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th | 2024–now | 711 | 282 |
| 9th | 2019–2024 | 819 | 1,201 |
| 8th | 2014–2019 | 828 | 1,476 |
| 7th | 2009–2014 | 801 | 1,596 |
| 6th | 2004–2009 | 704 | 528 |
The 6th term is partially covered: machine-readable, MEP-attributed committee amendments begin in 2008. A Member who served several terms appears once, with a per-term career breakdown on their page.
Why two-thirds co-signed?
Committee amendments are usually tabled by several MEPs together. We attribute an amendment to every listed author — the same convention used by Parltrack, journalists and NGOs. This means the sum of per-Member counts (2,820,094) is larger than the number of distinct amendments (1,343,100).
Sources
- Parltrack
- European Parliament Open Data
- European Parliament (official documents)
- Official amendment PDFs are linked on every procedure and Member page (europarl.europa.eu/doceo).
Limitations
- Figures combine open bulk aggregates with the Parliament’s official amendment documents into a single count. Amendments tabled after the stated coverage window are not included.
- 5,174 of 5,228 tracked procedures have a resolved title; the rest show their official reference.
- Plenary amendments (tabled by political groups) are out of scope.
- Some source records carried typo dates; 402 were flagged and excluded from date ranges.
What AmendEU is not
AmendEU is not an evaluation tool. It counts recorded activity; it does not judge the quality of parliamentary work, does not weight one activity against another, and does not produce composite scores. A higher or lower amendment count does not mean a Member is better or worse at their job — volume measures activity, not influence. When a figure here differs from one quoted elsewhere, the difference is almost always definitional, and our definitions are published on this page so you can check them.
Citing AmendEU
The data is free to use (CC BY 4.0). Cite it as “AmendEU (amendeu.com), accessed [date]”— for a specific figure, add the Member or procedure page URL. Member and procedure pages carry a ready-made citation block at the bottom. The underlying records belong to the European Parliament; for legal or academic use, cite the Parliament’s own publications alongside.