Report under Rule 227(7) on the deliberations of the Committee on Petitions during the year 2019

Reference A9-0230/2020Committee PETI

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left39

38001100%

S&D145

142003100%

Greens/EFA73

7200

The European Parliament adopted by 619 votes to 11, with 59 abstentions, a resolution on the outcome of the Committee on Petitions’ deliberations during 2019.Members recalled that Parliament received 1357 petitions in 2019 compared to 1220 in 2018, an increase of 11.23%, despite the period of suspension of parliamentary work due to the European elections. Of the petitions presented in 2019, 41 were co-signed by one or more citizens, 8 by more than 100 citizens and 3 by more than 10 000 citizens.Of the 1357 petitions presented in 2019, 938 were declared admissible and 406 inadmissible, and 13 were withdrawn. The relatively high number (30%) of petitions declared inadmissible in 2019 shows that there is still a general lack of awareness of…