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Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees
- Members of two new special committees and one committee of inquiry announced
- Committees to focus on Pegasus spyware, foreign interference and COVID-19
On Thursday, Parliament announced the names of the MEPs who will sit on three new committees established on 10 March.
The names of the members on each committee are available here.
The political groups choose the committees’ members and communicate the names of those they have selected to Parliament’s President. Each political group is allocated a number of seats based on the proportion of MEPs it has in Parliament.
The chairs and vice-chairs of each committee will be selected at the constitutive meetings.
In its 7-10 March plenary session, the Parliament established a new special committee on foreign interference and another on the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a committee of inquiry on the use of the Pegasus surveillance software. The special committees will have 33 members each, while the committee of inquiry will have 38 members.
Background
Parliament can create special committees to deal with specific topics. 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 when it ends.
A committee of inquiry investigates alleged breaches or maladministration in the implementation of EU law. Its term of office is twelve months (Rule 208) and can be extended twice by three-month periods.
The procedure to nominate MEPs to a committee is set out in Rule 209.
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