The House of Lords will debate a bill later that would allow a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU in 2017.
PM David Cameron has already pledged to hold a referendum in 2017 if the Tories win the next election. The bill, introduced by Tory MP James Wharton, would write the pledge into law.
The bill passed its final stage in the Commons in November despite Labour and Lib Dem efforts to delay its passage.
The BBC's Ben Wright said it would face a much tougher time in the Lords.
Few issues fired up Tory politicians as much as Europe, he said.
And the prime minister - as if to prove his promise over an in/out referendum - was backing Mr Wharton's private members' bill.
Our correspondent said hardly any such bills made it into law and, after being driven through the Commons by Tory MPs, it now risked a suffocating death in the Lords.
It was likely Labour, Lib Dem and pro-European Conservatives would conspire to successfully amend the bill.
It would then need to pass the Commons again by the end of February - so time was short, he added.
Mr Wharton has acknowledged the bill would have a tougher time in the upper house but said: "For an unelected house to deny the British people a say on a bill which has been passed by the elected House of Commons, I think, would put them in a very difficult position."
While it is unlikely there will be a vote in the Lords later, the debate will set the scene for divisions to come.
Both the prime minister's deputy Nick Clegg and Labour leader Ed Miliband have warned of the uncertainty and damage to business they say would be caused by holding a referendum.
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