MEPs filling the ranks of five new committees
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Members’ lists announced for new subcommittee, three special committees and a committee of inquiry Committees to focus on taxation, artificial intelligence, foreign interference, cancer and animal transport
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Committees to focus on taxation, artificial intelligence, foreign interference, cancer and animal transport
On Friday the names of the MEPs who will sit on the new committees established in June were announced.
All the names are available here.
The members of these committees are chosen by the political groups, which communicate their selection to Parliament’s President. Each political group is allocated a number of seats in proportion to the number of MEPs it accounts for in the whole of the EP.
The chairs and vice-chairs of each committee will be decided at the constitutive meetings in September.
In its June plenary session, the Parliament established a subcommittee on taxation, three special committees – one on cancer, another on artificial intelligence and a third on foreign interference, and a committee of inquiry on animal transport.
Each special committee is composed of 33 members, whereas the subcommittee and committee of inquiry have 30 members each.
Background
According to Parliament’s rules of procedures, the term of office of a special committee (Rule 207) may not exceed twelve months, except where Parliament extends that term on its expiry. A committee of inquiry’s term (Rule 208) of office is also twelve months and can be extended twice by three-month periods. The term of office of a subcommittee (Rule 212) is open-ended. Special committees, committees of inquiry and subcommittees cannot adopt legislative texts.
Subcommittees may be established either when their related standing committee is created or at the request of an already established standing committee, in the interests of the latter’s work and subject to prior authorisation by the Conference of Presidents. The area of responsibility of the subcommittee is clearly defined.
A committee of inquiry investigates alleged breaches or maladministration in the implementation of EU law.
