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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Committees

New-look Parliament carves up the top jobs

By Simon Taylor  -  23.07.2009 / 05:18 CET
Liberals take control of two financial committees and Germans to lead legislative committees.

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Committee chairs and vice-chairs

Foreign affairs
Chair: Gabriele Albertini (EPP, Italy)
Vice-chairs:
Fiorello Provera (EFD, Italy)
Ioan Mircea Pascu (S&D, Romania)
Dominique Baudis (EPP, France)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (GUE/NGL, France)

Development
Chair: Eva Joly (Greens/EFA, France)
Vice-chairs:
Michèle Striffler (EPP, France)
Nirj Deva (ECR, UK )
Iva Zanicchi (EPP, Italy)
Corina Cretu (S&D, Romania)

International trade
Chair: Vital Moreira (S&D, Portugal)
Vice-chairs:
Cristiana Muscardini (EPP, Italy)
Robert Sturdy (ECR, UK )
Pawel Ksawery Zalewski (EPP, Poland)
Yannick Jadot (Greens/EFA, France)

Budgets
Chair: Alain Lamassoure (EPP, France)
Vice-chairs:
Jutta Haug (S&D, Germany)
Alexander Alvaro (ALDE, Germany)
Jean-Luc Dehaene (EPP, Belgium)
Ivaylo Kalfin (S&D, Bulgaria)

Budgetary control
Chair: Luigi de Magistris (ALDE, Italy)
Vice-chairs:
Bart Staes (Greens/EFA, Belgium)
Jean-Pierre Audy (EPP, France)
Boguslaw Liberadzki (S&D, Poland)
Tamás Deutsch (EPP, Hungary)

Economic and monetary affairs
Chair: Sharon Bowles (ALDE, UK)
Vice-chairs:
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (EPP, Spain)
Arlene McCarthy (S&D, UK)
Theodor Dumitru Stolojan (EPP, Romania)
Edward Scicluna (S&D, Malta)

Employment and social affairs
Chair: Pervenche Berès (S&D, France)
Vice-chairs:
Elizabeth Lynne (ALDE, UK)
Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL, Portugal)
Elisabeth Schroedter (Greens/EFA, Germany)
Thomas Mann (EPP, Germany)

Environment, public health and food safety
Chair: Jo Leinen (S&D, Germany)
Vice-chairs
Corinne Lepage (ALDE, France)
Carl Schlyter (Greens/EFA, Sweden)
Boguslaw Sonik (EPP, Poland)
Dan Jørgensen (S&D, Denmark)

Industry, research and energy
Chair: Herbert Reul (EPP, Germany)
Vice-chairs:
Patrizia Toia (S&D, Italy)
Jens Rohde (ALDE, Denmark)
Anni Podimata (S&D, Greece)
Evžen Tošenovský (ECR, Czech Republic)

Internal market and consumer protection
Chair: Malcolm Harbour (ECR, UK)
Vice-chairs:
Eija-Riitta Korhola (EPP, Finland)
Bernadette Vergnaud (S&D, France)
Lara Comi (EPP, Italy)
Louis Grech (S&D, Malta)

Transport and tourism
Chair: Brian Simpson (S&D, UK)
Vice-chairs:
Dominique Riquet (EPP, FR)
Peter van Dalen (ECR, NL)
Silvia-Adriana Ticau (S&D, Romania)
Dieter-Lebrecht Koch (EPP, Germany)

Regional development
Chair: Danuta Hübner (EPP, Poland)
Vice-chairs:
Georgios Stavrakakis (S&D, Greece)
Markus Pieper (EPP, Germany)
Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova (ALDE, Bulgaria)
Michail Tremopoulos (Greens/EFA, Greece)

Agriculture
Chair: Paolo De Castro (S&D, Italy)
Vice-chairs:
Rares-Lucian Niculescu (EPP, Romania)
José Bové (Greens/EFA, France)
Janusz Wojciechowski (ECR, Poland)
Marit Paulsen (ALDE, Sweden)

Fisheries
Chair: Carmen Fraga Estévez (EPP, Spain)
Vice-chairs:
Struan Stevenson (ECR, UK)
Alain Cadec (EPP, France)
Guido Milana (S&D, Italy)
Carl Haglund (ALDE, Finland)

Culture and education
Chair: Doris Pack (EPP, Germany)
Vice-chairs:
Helga Trüpel (Greens/EFA, Germany)
Timo Soini (EFD, Finland)
Lothar Bisky (GUE/NGL, Germany)
Morten Løkkegaard (ALDE, Denmark)

Legal affairs
Chair: Klaus-Heiner Lehne (EPP, Germany)
Vice-chairs:
Luigi Berlinguer (S&D, Italy)
Raffaele Baldassarre (EPP, Italy)
Evelyn Regner (S&D, Austria)
Sebastian Valentin Bodu (EPP, Romania)

Civil liberties, justice and home affairs
Chair: Juan Fernando López Aguilar (S&D, Spain)
Vice-chairs:
Kinga Gál (EPP, Hungary)
Sophia in 't Veld (ALDE, Netherlands)
Salvatore Iacolino (EPP, Italy)
Kinga Göncz (S&D, Hungary)

Constitutional affairs
Chair: Carlo Casini (EPP, Italy)
Vice-chairs:
Zita Gurmai (S&D, Hungary)
Rafal Kazimierz Trzaskowski (EPP, Poland)
Morten Messerschmidt (EFD, Denmark)
Syed Kamall (ECR, UK)

Women's rights and gender equality
Chair: Eva-Britt Svensson (GUE/NGL, Sweden)
Vice-chairs:
Lívia Járóka (EPP, Hungary)
Edite Estrela (S&D, Portugal)
Elisabeth Morin-Chartier (EPP, France)
Barbara Matera (EPP, Italy)

Petitions
Chair: Erminia Mazzoni (EPP, Italy)
Vice-chairs:
Chrysoula Paliadeli (S&D, Greece)
Willy Meyer (GUE/NGL, Spain)
Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo (EPP, Spain)
Ágnes Hankiss (EPP, Hungary)

Subcommittees:

Security and defence
Chair: Arnaud Danjean (EPP, France)
Vice-chairs:
Kyriakos Mavronikolas (S&D, Cyprus)
Norica Nicolai (ALDE, Romania)
Justas Vincas Paleckis (S&D, Lithuania)
Krzysztof Lisek (EPP, Poland)

Human rights
Chair: Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA, Finland)
Vice-chairs:
Andrzej Grzyb (EPP, Poland)
Laima Liucija Andrikiene (EPP, Lithuania)
Metin Kazak (ALDE, Bulgaria)
(the fourth vice-chair will be elected on 31 August)

Special committees

Special committee on the financial crisis
Chair: Wolf Klinz (ALDE, Germany)
Rapporteur: (S&D)

Special committee on the financial perspective
Chair: Jutta Haug (S&D, Germany)
Rapporteur: Reimer Böge (EPP, Germany)

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