European Council’s Rules of Procedure

During the coming week, the European Council is going to meet.

Six months after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the web pages of the European Council are still unhelpful with regard to such basic public information as the Rules of Procedure of the European Council.

Therefore, we complement the information which should be visibly available, as a matter of course.



Rules of Procedure European Council



EUROPEAN COUNCIL DECISION 2009/882/EU of 1 December 2009 adopting its Rules of Procedure; published OJEU 2.12.2009 L 315/51.


For those who are interested, we presented the contents in a number of blog posts in December 2009.




Ralf Grahn