Committees of the European Parliament
List of standing committees
Table:
Committee
Acronym
Chairperson (group)

Agriculture and Rural Development
AGRI
Norbert Lins (EPP)

Budgets
BUDG
Johan Van Overtveldt (ECR)

Budgetary Control
CONT
Monika Hohlmeier (EPP)

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
LIBE
Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D)

Constitutional Affairs
AFCO
Antonio Tajani (EPP)

Culture and Education
CULT
Sabine Verheyen (EPP)

Development
DEVE
Tomas Tobé (EPP)

Economic and Monetary Affairs
ECON
Roberto Gualtieri (S&D)

Employment and Social Affairs
EMPL
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová (ECR)

Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
ENVI
Pascal Canfin (RE)

Fisheries
PECH
Chris Davies (RE)

Foreign Affairs
AFET
David McAllister (EPP)

Human Rights (subcommittee)
DROI
Marie Arena (S&D)

Security and Defence (subcommittee)
SEDE
Nathalie Loiseau (RE)

Industry, Research and Energy
ITRE
Adina-Ioana Vălean (EPP)

Internal Market and Consumer Protection
IMCO
Petra De Sutter (Greens/EFA)

International Trade
INTA
Bernd Lange (S&D)

Legal Affairs
JURI
Lucy Nethsingha (RE)

Petitions
PETI
Dolors Montserrat (EPP)

Regional Development
REGI
Younous Omarjee (GUE/NGL)

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The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development ( AGRI ) is a committee of the European Parliament .
Norbert Lins ( born 22 December 1977 ) is a German politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2014 . He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union , part of the European People 's Party . From 2004 to 2009 , he worked as a parliamentary assistant to Andreas Schwab at the European Parliament in Brussels .
The Committee on Budgets ( BUDG ) is a committee of the European Parliament . It has 41 members plus 39 substitute members . The committee 's current chair is Jean Arthuis , who has held this position since 7 July 2014 .
Johan Van Overtveldt ( born 24 August 1955 ) is a Belgian journalist and politician of the New Flemish Alliance ( N-VA ) . He served as Minister of Finance of Belgium from 2014 until 2018 .
The Committee on Budgetary Control ( CONT ) is a committee of the European Parliament . with 30 permanent members . It can be seen as the European Union 's internal political watchdog , seeking to identify undesirable developments within EU institutions and other bodies and then to elaborate constructive suggestions for improvement . The committee 's current chair , elected on 7 July 2014 , is Ingeborg Grässle .
Monika Hohlmeier ( née Strauß , born 2 July 1962 ) is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) since 2009 . She is a member of the Christian Social Union , part of the European People 's Party . Between 1998 and 2005 she served as Bavarian State Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs .
The Committee on Civil Liberties , Justice and Home Affairs ( LIBE ) is a committee of the European Parliament that is responsible for protecting civil liberties and human rights , including those of minorities , as listed in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union . Its current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Juan Fernando López Aguilar , member of the S & D political group .
Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( born 10 June 1961 ) is a Spanish politician and jurist , member of the European Parliament since 2009 . A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party , he served as Minister of Justice in the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero . He also represented Las Palmas in the Congress of Deputies between 1996 and 2007 and between 2008 and 2009 .
The Committee on Constitutional Affairs ( AFCO ) is a committee of the European Parliament dealing with institutional matters such as the Treaties of the European Union and the Parliament 's rules of procedure . It is currently chaired by Danuta Hübner MEP , a Polish member of the European People 's Party parliamentary group .
Antonio Tajani ( Italian pronunciation : [ anˈtɔːnjo taˈjaːni ] ; born 4 August 1953 ) is an Italian politician and former Italian Army officer , serving as President of the European Parliament from 2017 to 2019 , and has served as a member of the European Parliament since 2014 .
The Committee on Culture and Education ( CULT ) is a committee of the European Parliament .
Sabine Verheyen ( born 24 October 1964 ) is a German architect and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2009 . She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union , part of the European People 's Party .
The Committee on Development ( Commission du développement , DEVE ) is a committee of the European Parliament responsible for promoting , implementing and monitoring the development and cooperation policy of the European Union , notably talks with developing countries ; aid to developing countries ; and promotion of democratic values , good governance and human rights in developing countries . The committee has thirty-four members and the same number of substitute members . Its current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Tomas Tobé .
Tomas Gunnar Tobé ( born 16 February 1978 ) is a Swedish politician and who served as party secretary of the Moderate Party from 10 January 2015 to 2 June 2017 . He was elected Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Sweden .
The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs ( ECON ) is a committee of the European Parliament which is responsible for the regulation of financial services , the free movement of capital and payments , taxation and competition policies , oversight of the European Central Bank , and the international financial system . Since the establishment of the Economic and Monetary Union ( EMU ) , one of the most important function of this committee has been the oversight of the European Central Bank ( ECB ) through the monetary dialogue . Although guaranteed independence under the Treaty , the ECB is accountable for its actions towards the European Parliament , and more precisely the ECON Committee . Every three months , the President of the ECB , or occasionally another member of the ECB 's executive board , appears before the Committee to report on monetary policy and answer question from MEPs . These proceedings , usually called the monetary dialogue , are webstreamed and a transcript is made available on both the Parliament and ECB websites . The European Parliament 's ECON Committee also plays an advisory role in the appointments of the President and board members of the ECB .
Roberto Gualtieri ( born 19 July 1966 ) is an Italian university professor and politician of the Democratic Party ( PD ) . Since 5 September 2019 , he has been serving as Minister of Economy and Finances in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte . He previously was a member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019 , where he chaired the influential Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee within the Parliament from 2014 until 2019 .
The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs ( EMPL ) is a committee of the European Parliament . Its current chair , elected on 7 July 2014 , is Thomas Händel . It is responsible for overseeing employment discrimination law within the European Union , among other things .
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová ( née Kubovičová ; born 28 November 1976 ) is a Slovak politician and Member of the European Parliament . She is a former journalist , former State Secretary of the Ministry of Labor , Social and Family Affairs , and former vice-chairwoman of the National Council of Slovakia . As a member of the Freedom and Solidarity political party , Nicholsonová was elected as a member of the National Council during the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election , served as State Secretary and later became part of the Social Affairs Committee . She became a vice-chairwoman of the National Council of the Slovak Republic in 2016 and programme leader of the Freedom and Solidarity party for socially excluded communities . She has not dealt only with the social area but was also a loud and frequent critic of the government corruption scandals , including corrupted redistribution of euro-funds in agriculture or social and labour policies . Under her first married name of Lucia Nicholsonová she worked for at least ten media outlets in Slovakia , whereas her first husband , Tom Nicholson , was also a journalist , working for the Slovak newspaper SME and English-language newspaper The Slovak Spectator . She remarried in June 2016 , subsequently being known as Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová . Ďuriš Nicholsonová was part of a small delegation from the Slovak parliament to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to Slovakia in October 2016 . Ďuriš Nicholsonová is well-known for the reform she proposed as an opposition politician to improve the Roma minority living conditions and prevent their further socio-economic exclusion , consisting of early pre-schooling for children from excluded communities and more effective , specialised and motivational social support and tailored assistance . . In May 2019 she became one of the 14 Members of the European Parliament from Slovakia , as her political party Freedom and Solidarity ( SaS ) has won 9.60% of votes , resulting in two mandates . She has focused on employment and social matters , including rights of persons with disabilities and active ageing , during her European election campaign and praised work-life balance incentives of the European Parliament .
The Committee on the Environment , Public Health and Food Safety ( ENVI ) is a committee of the European Parliament . It has 69 full members . Its current chair is Pascal Canfin .
Pascal Canfin ( born in Arras , 22 August 1974 ) is a Member of the European Parliament as part of the LaREM national party and Renew Europe group . He is Chair of the Environment , Public Health and Food Safety Committee . He was formerly the head of the French section of WWF until 25 March 2019 , and Minister for Development under the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ayrault Cabinet . Canfin previously served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2012 . From July 2014 to December 2015 , he was the Senior Advisor on Climate at World Resources Institute ( WRI ) , ranked the most influential think tank in the world on environmental issues , on the preparation of the International climate summit to be held in Paris in December 2015 ( COP21 ) . For this matter , he also co-chaired with Alain Grandjean the Commission for innovative financing for climate , mandated by the President of the French Republic .
Renew Europe ( Renew ) is a liberal , pro-European political group of the European Parliament founded for the ninth European Parliament term . The group is the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ) group which existed during the sixth , seventh and eighth terms from 2004 to 2019 .
The Committee on Fisheries ( PECH ) is a committee of the European Parliament . Chris Davies was the chairman ( 2019 - 2020 ) - until the United Kingdom left the European Union .
Christopher Graham Davies ( born 7 July 1954 ) is a Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom . He is a former Member of Parliament . He served as a Member of the European Parliament for North West England from 1999 to 2014 and from 2019 to 2020 .
The Committee on Foreign Affairs ( AFET , after the French name Affaires étrangères ) , previously called Political Affairs , is a committee of the European Parliament . Composed of 75 members and 74 substitutes , it has two subcommittees : the Subcommittee on Human Rights ( DROI ) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence ( SEDE ) . Foreign affairs is not an area that Parliament has much power over , yet attracts a high proportion of the more well-known and influential MEPs given the prestige of the area [ citation needed ] .
David James Mac McAllister ( born 12 January 1971 ) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany . He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union , part of the European People 's Party . He is the current Vice President of the European People 's Party and he is also Vice Chairman of the International Democrat Union . He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017 . On 1 July 2010 McAllister was elected Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony , succeeding Christian Wulff , who resigned following his election as President of Germany . Until his election defeat on 19 February 2013 , he headed a coalition government with the liberal FDP , the Cabinet McAllister . In the 2014 European elections , McAllister was elected a Member of the European Parliament as the CDU 's top candidate in Lower Saxony . A lawyer by profession , he served as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxon Parliament from 2003 to 2010 and was elected chairman of the state party in 2008 . In November 2016 he left the chairman post , and announced that he sees his political future in Europe . McAllister holds both German and British citizenship . Following his election as Minister-President , he was described as a rising star in the CDU and , at the time , as a potential successor to Angela Merkel . He has more recently been mentioned as a possible future European Commissioner .
The European People 's Party group ( EPP Group ) is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament consisting of deputies ( MEPs ) from the member parties of the European People 's Party ( EPP ) . It sometimes includes independent MEPs and/or deputies from unaffiliated national parties . The EPP Group comprises politicians of Christian-democratic , conservative and liberal-conservative orientation . The European People 's Party was officially founded as a European political party in 1976 . However , the European People 's Party group in the European Parliament has existed in one form or another since June 1953 , from the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community , making it one of the oldest European level political groups . It has been the largest political group in the European Parliament since 1999 .
The Subcommittee on Human Rights ( DROI ) is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament . The subcommittee has been chaired since 7 July 2014 by Elena Valenciano .
Marie Arena ( born 17 December 1966 ) is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) since 2014 . She is a member of the Socialist Party , part of the Party of European Socialists .
The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats ( S & D ) is the political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists ( PES ) . The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats was officially founded as a Socialist Group on 29 June 1953 which makes it the second oldest political group in the European Parliament after the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group ( ALDE ) . It adopted its present-day name on 23 June 2009 . Centre-left in orientation , the group mostly comprises social-democratic parties and is affiliated with the Progressive Alliance . Until the 1999 European Parliament elections , it was the largest group in the Parliament , but since then it has always been the second-largest group . During the 8th EU Parliament Assembly , the S & D was the only Parliament group with representation from all 27 EU member states . In the current EU Parliament the S & D is currently composed of 147 members from 25 member states . In the European Council , 8 out of 27 Heads of State and Government belong to the S & D Group and in the European Commission , 8 out of 27 Commissioners come from PES parties .
The Subcommittee on Security and Defence ( SEDE ) is a subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament . The subcommittee has been chaired since 7 July 2014 by Anna Fotyga .
Nathalie Loiseau ( born 1 June 1964 ) is a French politician , diplomat and academic administrator currently serving as a Member of European Parliament since 2019 . She previously served as director of the École nationale d'administration ( ENA ) from 2012 to 2017 and as the French Minister for European Affairs from 21 June 2017 to 27 March 2019 . She was the top candidate of the La République En Marche electoral list in the 2019 European elections .
The Committee on Industry , Research and Energy ( ITRE ) is a committee of the European Parliament . Its areas of responsibility relate to industry , especially technology-intensive manufacturing , information technology , and telecommunications . It also coordinates European space policy and therefore has ties with the European Space Agency . It has oversight duties in relation to the Joint Research Centre and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements , as well as similar projects . The committee 's current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Adina-Ioana Vălean .
Adina-Ioana Vălean ( born 16 February 1968 ) is a Romanian politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2007 . In 2019 she was elected chair of the European Parliament Committee on Industry , Research and Energy .
The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection ( IMCO ) is a committee of the European Parliament .
Petra De Sutter ( Oudenaarde , 10 June 1963 ) is a Belgian gynaecologist and politician of the Green party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 . She previously worked as professor of gynaecology at Ghent University , head of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at Ghent University Hospital ( UZ Gent ) .
The Greens/European Free Alliance ( Greens/EFA ) is the political group of the European Parliament composed primarily of green and regionalist political parties . Formed following the 1999 European elections for the 5th European Parliament , the Greens/EFA group now consists of three distinct European political parties , namely the larger European Green Party ( EGP ) and the European Free Alliance ( EFA ) and the smaller European Pirate Party . The EFA consists of parties representing stateless nations , regionalist and minority political interests . The group has generally limited its membership to progressive parties . These European parties are joined by MEPs from non-aligned national parties , which have included the Dutch Europe Transparent ( 2004-2009 ) and the Swedish ( 2009-2014 ) , German ( 2014- ) and Czech ( 2019- ) Pirate Parties .
The Committee on International Trade ( INTA ) is a committee of the European Parliament . Its current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Bernd Lange . INTA is responsible for matters relating to the establishment , implementation and monitoring of the EUs common commercial policy and its external economic relations , including trade and investment legislation , bilateral , plurilateral and multilateral agreements and relations with the World Trade Organisation ( WTO ) . With the Treaty of Lisbon , the Parliament has become a co-legislator in the Unions Common Commercial Policy and has the final say on entry into force of all trade agreements . Moreover , the Union competencies were expanded to include foreign investment . The main legislative achievements guided through the Parliament by INTA during the 7th parliamentary term ( 2009-2014 ) include regulations on 'Grandfathering ' , 'Financial Responsibility ' , macro-financial assistance to third countries , 'Enforcement , 'Dual Use ' , 'Omnibus I and II ' packages , the review of the Generalised System of Preferences ( GSP ) and the Market Access Regulation ( MAR ) . Legislation on the Public procurement and Modernisation of the Trade Defence Instruments ( TDI ) would only be adopted if an agreement with the Council is reached . During its last term the European Parliament gave consent to free trade agreements with South Korea and Peru/Colombia , rejected Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ) , scrutinised trade talks with Canada , Singapore and African , Caribbean and Pacific ( ACP ) countries and started examining ongoing negotiations with Japan and the US .
Bernd Lange ( born 14 November 1955 ) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany . He is a member of the Social Democratic Party , part of the Party of European Socialists . He was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004 . Since July 2009 he is again member of the European Parliament within the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament . Since 2014 , Bernd Lange is chairman of the INTA committee ( International Trade ) and rapporteur for TTIP ( Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership )
The Committee on Legal Affairs ( JURI ) is a committee of the European Parliament .
Lucy Kathleen Nethsingha ( born 6 February 1973 ) is a British politician , who was a Liberal Democrats Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for the East of England between 2019 and the United Kingdom 's withdrawal from the EU . She is chair of the Parliament 's Committee on Legal Affairs ( JURI ) .
The Committee on Petitions ( PETI ) is a permanent committee of the European Parliament to offer a petition process including a web portal to create and admit petitions . Its current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Dolors Montserrat , member of the EPP Group . The right to petition is one of the fundamental rights of the European citizen and residents . Any of these can bring forward a petition on a matter within the EU 's sphere of activities . The Committee hears cases , some 1500 each year , sometimes presented in Parliament by the citizen themselves . While the Parliament attempts to resolve the issue as a mediator , it can resort to legal proceedings if necessary to resolve the citizen 's dispute .
Dolors Montserrat i Montserrat ( born September 18 , 1973 in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia ) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who serves as Member of the European Parliament . Previously , she has served as Minister of Health , Social Services and Equality of Spain from 2016 to 2018 , when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government . In addition , she has also been Member of the Congress of Deputies in the Cortes Generales between 2008 and 2019 by Barcelona . She is the daughter of the businesswoman , and also politician of the People 's Party , Dolors Montserrat i Culleré .
The Committee on Regional Development ( REGI ) is a committee of the European Parliament . Its current chair , elected on 10 July 2019 , is Younous Omarjee .
Younous Omarjee ( born 30 September 1969 in Saint-Denis , Réunion ) is a Reunionese politician . He has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 4 January 2012 . Since july 2019 , he is chair of the European Parliament Committee on Regional Development . He sits with the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left . In addition , Younous Omarjee is a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs , of the European Parliament Committee on Budgets and of the European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control , as well as one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup , the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights , the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals , .
The European United Left/Nordic Green Left ( French : Gauche unitaire européenne/Gauche verte nordique , GUE/NGL ) is a political group of the European Parliament established in 1995 , and composed of left-wing to far-left members . The group comprises political parties of socialist and communist orientation .