# Seventh European Parliament

The seventh European Parliament was elected in the 2009 elections and lasted until the 2014 elections.

## Major events

| Group | Leader(s) | MEPs | MEPs |
| EPP | Joseph Daul | 274 | |
| S&D | Hannes Swoboda | 195 | |
| ALDE | Guy Verhofstadt | 85 | |
| Greens-EFA | Daniel Cohn-Bendit Rebecca Harms | 58 | |
| ECR | Martin Callanan | 56 | |
| GUE-NGL | Gabi Zimmer | 35 | |
| EFD | Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni | 33 | |
| Non-Inscrits | MEPs without group | 30 | Source: European Parliament |
* 4–7 June 2009
** Elections to the Seventh Parliament.
* 14 July 2009
** First meeting (constitutive session) of the Seventh Parliament.
** Jerzy Buzek is elected as President of the European Parliament.
** Vice-presidents elections.
* 17 January 2012
** Martin Schulz is elected as President of the European Parliament.

## Activity

* Reports
* Resolutions and positions
* Parliamentary questions
* Written declarations

## Major resolutions and positions

| Resolution/position number | Procedure number | Notes |

## Committees
### Summary

* Type
* Standing committee
* Temporary committee
* Committee of enquiry

### Temporary committees

| Code | Committee | Report | Sources |

### Committees of enquiry

| Code | Committee | Report | Sources |

## Delegations

* Type
* Europe delegations
* Non-Europe delegations
* Ad hoc delegations

## Political groups

    See membership below for details of size
| Group name | Acronym | Seats | Percent | Chairs | Vice-Presidents |
| European People's Party | EPP | 265 | 36% | Joseph Daul | 5 |
| Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | S&D | 184 | 25% | Martin Schulz | 5 |
| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group | ALDE | 84 | 11.4% | Guy Verhofstadt | 2 |
| The Greens–European Free Alliance | GREENS/EFA | 55 | 7.5% | Rebecca Harms Daniel Cohn-Bendit | 1 |
| European Conservatives and Reformists | ECR | 54 | 7.3% | Michał Kamiński | 0 |
| European United Left–Nordic Green Left | GUE-NGL | 35 | 4.8% | Lothar Bisky | 0 |
| Europe of Freedom and Democracy | EFD | 32 | 4.3% | Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni | 0 |
| Non-Inscrits | NA | 27 | 3.7% | --- | 1 |

### Members in groups by country

| Political groupCountry | EPP | S&D | ALDE | Greens/EFA | ECR | GUE-NGL | EFD | NI | MEPs |
| Austria | 6 | 4 | | 2 | | | | 3 | 17 |
| Belgium | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | | | 2 | 22 |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 4 | 5 | | | | | 2 | 17 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 2 | | | | 2 | | | 6 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 7 | | | 9 | 4 | | | 22 |
| Denmark | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | | 1 | 2 | | 13 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | | | | | 6 |
| Finland | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | | | 1 | | 13 |
| France | 29 | 14 | 6 | 14 | | 5 | 1 | 3 | 72 |
| Germany | 42 | 23 | 12 | 14 | | 8 | | | 99 |
| Greece | 8 | 8 | | 1 | | 3 | 2 | | 22 |
| Hungary | 14 | 4 | | | 1 | | | 3 | 22 |
| Ireland | 4 | 3 | 4 | | | 1 | | | 12 |
| Italy | 35 | 21 | 7 | | | | 9 | | 72 |
| Latvia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 8 |
| Lithuania | 4 | 3 | 2 | | 1 | | 2 | | 12 |
| Luxembourg | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | | 6 |
| Malta | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | 5 |
| Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
| Poland | 28 | 7 | | | 15 | | | | 50 |
| Portugal | 10 | 7 | | | | 5 | | | 22 |
| Romania | 14 | 11 | 5 | | | | | 3 | 33 |
| Slovakia | 6 | 5 | 1 | | | | 1 | | 13 |
| Slovenia | 3 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | 7 |
| Spain | 23 | 21 | 2 | 2 | | 1 | | 1 | 50 |
| Sweden | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | | 1 | | | 18 |
| United Kingdom | | 13 | 11 | 5 | 25 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 72 |
| Total | 265 | 184 | 84 | 55 | 54 | 35 | 32 | 27 | 736 |

## Leadership
### Presidents

| Term | President (or candidate) | Group | State | Votes |
| 14 July 2009 – 17 January 2012 | Jerzy Buzek | EPP | Poland | 555 |
| 14 July 2009 – 17 January 2012 | Eva-Britt Svensson | GUE-NGL | Sweden | 89 |
| 17 January 2012– 17 April 2014 | Martin Schulz | PES | Germany | 387 |
| 17 January 2012– 17 April 2014 | Nirj Deva | ECR | United Kingdom | 142 |
| 17 January 2012– 17 April 2014 | Diana Wallis | ALDE | United Kingdom | 141 |

### Vice-Presidents

| Group | Vice-President (or candidate) | State | Votes in: | Votes in: | Votes in: | Pick |
| Group | Vice-President (or candidate) | State | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | Pick |
| EPP | Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou | Greece | 355 | --- | --- | |
| EPP | Roberta Angelilli | Italy | 277 | 266 | 274 | |
| EPP | Alejo Vidal-Quadras | Spain | 332 | 303 | 308 | |
| EPP | Pál Schmitt | Hungary | 266 | 239 | 257 | |
| EPP | Rainer Wieland | Germany | 267 | 235 | 237 | |
| S&D | Giovanni Pittella | Italy | 360 | --- | --- | |
| S&D | Stavros Lambrinidis | Greece | 348 | --- | --- | |
| S&D | Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez | Spain | 330 | 292 | 327 | |
| S&D | Dagmar Roth-Behrendt | Germany | 299 | 288 | 287 | |
| S&D | Libor Rouček | Czech Republic | 284 | 276 | 278 | |
| ALDE | Diana Wallis | UK | 303 | 274 | 272 | |
| ALDE | Silvana Koch-Mehrin | Germany | 148 | 141 | 186 | |
| ECR | Michał Kamiński | Poland | 194 | 175 | 174 | |
| ECR | Edward McMillan-Scott (non-attached) | UK | 237 | 242 | 244 | |
| GREENS/EFA | Isabelle Durant | Belgium | 268 | 259 | 276 | |

### Quaestors

| Group | Quaestor (or candidate) | State | Votes in: | Votes in: | Votes in: | Pick |
| Group | Quaestor (or candidate) | State | 1st round | 2nd round | 3rd round | Pick |
| EPP | Jim Higgins | Ireland | 352 | --- | --- | |
| EPP | Astrid Lulling | Luxembourg | 322 | 327 | 306 | |
| EPP | Ria Oomen-Ruijten | Netherlands | 161 | 187 | 186 | |
| S&D | Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg | Poland | 398 | --- | --- | |
| ALDE | Bill Newton Dunn | UK | 164 | 202 | 208 | |
| ECR | James Nicholson | UK | 171 | 172 | 176 | |
| GUE-NGL | Jiří Maštálka | Czech Republic | 206 | 283 | 293 | |
| EFD | Francesco Speroni | Italy | 145 | 130 | 131 | |

## Membership

After the 2009 election, the members formed seven groups with around 26 independent members, mainly from the far right which failed to unify into a political group. With the Treaty of Lisbon not in force in time for the elections, the national distribution followed the rules of the Treaty of Nice which necessitated a reduction to 736 members. Extra members will join the chamber if Lisbon comes into force.
The seventh parliament ended with a total of 766 MEPs (including Croatia) and was slimmed down to 751 at the start of the eight parliament.
For the seventh parliament, the number of women increased from 31% to 35% (the highest to date, from 16% in 1979) with increases in most countries. The largest percentage was in Sweden, with 56% of MEPs women, followed by Estonia with 50%. The lowest was Malta with no women members at all, followed by the Czech Republic with 18%, down from 21%.
From inauguration, the youngest member was Emilie Turunen of Denmark (born in 1984 making her 25) and the oldest member was Ciriaco de Mita of Italy (born 1928 making him 81). Usually the oldest member would preside over the chamber for the election of the Parliament's president. However, with concern that the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen would be the oldest member (rather than De Mita) the rules were changed to give this role to the outgoing President.

### Groups

| Group | Group | Seats | Seats |
| Group | Group | Inauguration | 5 March 2010 |
| | European People's Party | 265 | 265 |
| | Socialists and Democrats | 184 | 184 |
| | Liberals and Democrats | 84 | 85 |
| | Greens/European Free Alliance | 55 | 55 |
| | Conservatives and Reformists | 55 | 54 |
| | European United Left – Nordic Green Left | 35 | 35 |
| | Europe of Freedom and Democracy | 32 | 30 $^,$ |
| | Non-attached | 26 | 28 |
Edward McMillan-Scott was expelled from the Conservative Party on 15 September 2009;
Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from the UK Independence Party on 4 March 2010.
Edward McMillan-Scott joined Liberal Democrats on 12 March 2010.
Mike Nattrass left UK Independence Party on 23 June 2010.

### Apportionment

| State | Seats | State | Seats |
| Germany | 99 | France | 72 |
| UK | 72 | Italy | 72 |
| Spain | 50 | Poland | 50 |
| Romania | 33 | Netherlands | 25 |
| Greece | 22 | Portugal | 22 |
| Belgium | 22 | Czech Republic | 22 |
| Hungary | 22 | Sweden | 18 |
| Austria | 17 | Bulgaria | 17 |
| Denmark | 13 | Slovakia | 13 |
| Finland | 13 | Ireland | 12 |
| Lithuania | 12 | Latvia | 8 |
| Slovenia | 7 | Estonia | 6 |
| Cyprus | 6 | Luxembourg | 6 |
| Malta | 5 | Total | 736 |

## Secretariat

| Office | Post | Name |
| Office of the Secretary-General | Secretary-General of the European Parliament | Klaus Welle |
| Legal Service | Jurisconsult of the European Parliament | Christian Pennera |
| Directorate-General for the Presidency | Director-General | Francesca Ratti |
| Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union | Director-General | Riccardo Ribera d'Alcala |
| Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union | Director-General | Luis Marco Aguiriano Nalda |
| Directorate-General for Communication | Director-General | Juana Lahousse-Juarez |
| Directorate-General for Personnel | Director-General | Yves Quittin |
| Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics | Director-General | Constantin Stratigakis |
| Directorate-General for Translation | Director-General | ? |
| Directorate-General for Interpretation and Conferences | Director-General | ? |
| Directorate-General for Finance | Director-General | ? |