15. Membership of committees and delegations

Verbatim reports

Marios Matsakis spoke on a procedural matter.

The President had received the following requests for appointments from the PPE-DE, PSE, ALDE, UEN, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL, ITS and IND/DEM Groups, and from the Non-attached Members:

ECON Committee: Joop Post to replace Renato Brunetta

EMPL Committee: Edit Bauer to replace Ria Oomen-Ruijten

TRAN Committee: Marian-Jean Marinescu to replace Corien Wortmann-Kool

LIBE Committee: Ria Oomen-Ruijten to replace Edit Bauer

Subcommittee on Human Rights: György Schöpflin was no longer a member

Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly:

- Luciana Sbarbati

- Zita Gurmai to replace Alexandra Dobolyi

- Josep Borrell Fontelles to replace Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco

- Olle Schmidt to replace Lena Ek

- Gabriele Zimmer to replace Francis Wurtz

Delegation to the Euromediterranean Joint Parliamentary Assembly:

- Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg to replace Eluned Morgan

- Cem Özdemir to replace Daniel Cohn-Bendit

- Adamos Adamou to replace Kyriacos Triantaphyllides

- Dimitar Stoyanov to replace Jean-Claude Martinez

Delegation to the EU-FYROM Joint Parliamentary Committee:

- Daniel Strož

- Kinga Gál to replace András Gyürk

Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee:

- Tchetin Kazak to replace Gérard Deprez

Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee:

- András Gyürk to replace Ioannis Gklavakis

- Gian Paolo Gobbo to replace Francesco Enrico Speroni

Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee:

- Daniela Buruiană-Aprodu

- Giusto Catania to replace André Brie

Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe:

- Ovidiu Victor Ganţ, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Ioannis Gklavakis, Marcello Vernola, Georgi Bliznashki, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Tiberiu Bărbuleţiu and Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven.

- Sarah Ludford was no longer a member

Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee:

- Ria Oomen-Ruijten

- Jean-Marie Cavada to replace Gianluca Susta

- Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk to replace Bogusław Rogalski

Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee:

- Gábor Harangozó to replace Edit Herczog

- Marek Siwiec to replace Bernhard Rapkay

Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee:

- Dan Mihalache, Cristian Stănescu

- Maria Petre to replace Giorgio Carollo

Delegation for relations with Belarus:

- Stefan Sofianski, Claire Gibault

- Andres Tarand to replace Andrzej Jan Szejna

- Alessandra Mussolini to replace Carl Lang

Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia:

- Jas Gawronski to replace Albert Jan Maat

- Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva to replace Adam Gierek

- Fausto Correia was no longer a member

Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees:

- Evgeni Kirilov

- Marian-Jean Marinescu to replace Frieda Brepoels

Delegation for relations with Israel:

- Gabriele Albertini, Philip Dimitrov Dimitrov, Giorgio Carollo, Vasile Dîncu, Andrzej Jan Szejna and Lydia Shouleva

- Antonio Tajani was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council:

- Frieda Brepoels, Hannes Swoboda and Mario Borghezio

- Kyriacos Triantaphyllides to replace Adamos Adamou

Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya):

- Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Iratxe García Pérez, Alfonso Andria and Dumitru Gheorghe Mircea Coşea

- Inés Ayala Sender to replace Luis Yañez-Barnuevo García

- Hélène Flautre was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries:

- Martin Dimitrov and Hélène Flautre

- Dimitar Stoyanov to replace Alessandra Mussolini

Delegation for relations with the Gulf States, including Yemen:

- Eugen Mihăescu

- Roberta Alma Anastase to replace Nicole Fontaine

- Joost Lagendijk was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with Iran:

- Radu Podgorean, Georgios Karatzaferis and Carl Lang

- Giusto Catania and Hans-Peter Martin were no longer members

Delegation for relations with the United States:

-Radu Ţîrle, Christoph Konrad, Konstantin Dimitrov, Atanas Paparizov, Corina Creţu, Karin Riis-Jørgensen, Sarah Ludford, Salvatore Tatarella and Pierre Jonckheer

- Adrian-Mihai Cioroianu to replace Karin Resetarits

- Alfonso Andria was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with Canada:

- Károly Ferenc Szabó, Manfred Weber, Christel Schaldemose, Mladen Petrov Chervenyakov, Urszula Krupa and Petre Popeangă

- Edit Herczog to replace Zita Gurmai

Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America:

- David Casa, Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, Jan Jerzy Kułakowski and Wiesław Stefan Kuc

- Maria Badia i Cutchet to replace Inés Ayala Sender

- Gianluca Susta to replace Lapo Pistelli

Delegation for relations with the Andean Community:

- Fausto Correia, Ovidiu Ioan Silaghi and Jean-Claude Martinez

- Gabriela Creţu to replace Margrietus van den Berg

Delegation for relations with Japan:

- Dieter-Lebrecht Koch, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Karin Resetarits and Umberto Pirilli

- Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco to replace Maria Badia i Cutchet

Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China:

- Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Daciana Octavia Sârbu, Eluned Morgan, Stavros Arnaoutakis, Eduard Raul Hellvig, Antonyia Parvanova and Viorica-Pompilia-Georgeta Moisuc

- Jorgo Chatzimarkakis to replace Karin Riis-Jørgensen

- Hans-Peter Martin to replace Gianni De Michelis

- Jacky Henin to replace Gabriele Zimmer

Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia:

- Christian Ehler

Delegation for relations with India:

- Christopher Beazley to replace Christian Ehler

Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) :

- Kristian Vigenin and Alexandru-Ioan Morţun

- Athanasios Pafilis was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula:

- Vincenzo Aita

- Alexandra Dobolyi to replace Andres Tarand

- Umberto Bossi to replace Francesco Enrico Speroni

- Philip Claeys to replace Fernand Le Rachinel

- Gérard Onesta was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand:

- Françoise Grossetête, Alexandru Athanasiu, Evangelia Tzampazi and Paavo Väyrynen

- Adamos Adamou to replace Kyriacos Triantaphyllides

- Fernand Le Rachinel to replace Philip Claeys

- Leopold Józef Rutowicz was no longer a member

Delegation for relations with South Africa:

- Atilla Béla Ladislau Kelemen, Adam Gierek, Catherine Guy-Quint and Georgios Toussas

The President established that there were no objections. The appointments were thereby ratified.