CELEX: 52012DP0001
Language: en
Date: 2012-01-18 00:00:00
Title: Numerical strength of the standing committees European Parliament decision of 18 January 2012 on the numerical strength of the standing committees

6.8.2013   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               CE 227/35
            
         Wednesday 18 January 2012Numerical strength of the standing committees
   P7_TA(2012)0001
   European Parliament decision of 18 January 2012 on the numerical strength of the standing committees
   (2013/C 227 E/08)
   
      The European Parliament,
   
   
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               having regard to the proposal by the Conference of Presidents,
            
         
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               having regard to its decisions of 15 July 2009 (1) and 14 December 2011 (2) on the numerical strength of standing committees,
            
         
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               having regard to Rule 183 of its Rules of Procedure,
            
         
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               Decides to amend the number of members of parliamentary committees as follows:
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Foreign Affairs: 76 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Development: 30 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on International Trade: 31 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Budgets: 43 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Budgetary Control: 30 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs: 48 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Employment and Social Affairs: 49 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety: 69 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: 61 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection: 41 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Transport and Tourism: 47 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Regional Development: 50 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development: 44 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Fisheries: 25 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Culture and Education: 31 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Legal Affairs: 25 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: 60 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Constitutional Affairs: 24 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality: 35 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Committee on Petitions: 35 members,
                        
                     and to amend the number of members of parliamentary subcommittees as follows:
               
                            
                        
                        
                           Subcommittee on Human Rights: 31 members
                        
                     
                            
                        
                        
                           Subcommittee on Security and Defence: 31 members;
                        
                     
         
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               Decides, with reference to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 9 July 2009 relating to the composition of Committee Bureaux, that the Committee Bureaux may include up to four vice-chairs;
            
         
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               Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.
            
         
      (1)  OJ C 224 E, 19.8.2010, p. 34.
   
      (2)  Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0570.