Twelve EP committees elect chairs and vice-chairs

Institutions - 16-07-2009 - 13:56

Twelve EP committees elected their chairs and vice-chairs on 16 July: Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Budgets, Economic and Monetary Affairs, Employment and Social Affairs, Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Industry, Research and Energy, Internal Market and Consumer Protection, Legal Affairs, Civil Liberties, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and Petitions. The remaining committees will follow suit on Monday 20 July.

Sharon BOWLES (ALDE, UK) was appointed chair of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and Malcolm HARBOUR (ECR, UK) was appointed chair of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee.

Foreign Affairs
Chair: Gabriele Albertini (EPP, Italy)

Vice-Chairs:
Fiorello Provera (EFD, Italy)
Ioan Mircea Paşcu (S&D, Romania)
Dominique Baudis (EPP, France)
Jean-Luc Mélenchon (GUE/NGL, France)

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)

Economic and Monetary Affairs
Chair: Sharon Bowles (ALDE, United Kingdom)

Vice-chairs:
José Manuel Garcia-Margallo y Marfil (EPP, Spain)
Arlene McCarthy (S&D, United Kingdom)
Theodor Dumitru Stolojan (EPP, Romania)
Edward Scicluna (S&D, Malta)

Employment and Social Affairs
Chair: Pervenche Beres (S&D, France)

Vice-chairs:
Elisabeth Lynne (ALDE, United Kingdom)
Ilda Figuereido (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)
Evzen Tosenovsky (ECR, Czech Republic)

Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Chair: Malcolm Harbour, ECR, UK)

Vice-chairs:
Eija-Ritta Korhola (EPP, Finland)
Bernadette Vergnaud (S&D, France)
Lara Comi (EPP, Italy)
Louis Grech (S&D, Malta)

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
Chair: Fernando Lopez 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)

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 Iturgáiz Angulo (EPP, Spain)
Ágnes Hankiss (EPP, Hungary)