Texts adopted - Numerical strength of the standing committees

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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 - Strasbourg

Numerical strength of the standing committees

P7_TA(2012)0001

European Parliament decision of 18 January 2012 on the numerical strength of the standing committees

The European Parliament,

– having regard to the proposal by the Conference of Presidents,

– having regard to its decisions of 15 July 2009(1) and 14 December 2011(2) on the numerical strength of standing committees,

– having regard to Rule 183 of its Rules of Procedure,

1. Decides to amend the number of members of parliamentary committees as follows:

	Committee on Foreign Affairs: 76 members
	Committee on Development: 30 members
	Committee on International Trade: 31 members
	Committee on Budgets: 43 members
	Committee on Budgetary Control: 30 members
	Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs: 48 members
	Committee on Employment and Social Affairs: 49 members
	Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety: 69 members
	Committee on Industry, Research and Energy: 61 members
	Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection: 41 members
	Committee on Transport and Tourism: 47 members
	Committee on Regional Development: 50 members
	Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development: 44 members
	Committee on Fisheries: 25 members
	Committee on Culture and Education: 31 members
	Committee on Legal Affairs: 25 members
	Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs: 60 members
	Committee on Constitutional Affairs: 24 members
	Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality: 35 members
	Committee on Petitions: 35 members,
	and to amend the number of members of parliamentary subcommittees as follows:
	Subcommittee on Human Rights: 31 members
	Subcommittee on Security and Defence: 31 members;
	2.	Decides, with reference to the decision of the Conference of Presidents of 9 July 2009 relating to the composition of Committee Bureaux, that the Committee Bureaux may include up to four vice-chairs;
	3.	Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and Commission, for information.

(1)	OJ C 224 E, 19.8.2010, p. 34.
(2)	Texts adopted, P7_TA(2011)0570.