The European Parliament,

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

–  having regard to its decision of 15 January 2014 on the powers and responsibilities of the standing committees(1),

–  having regard to Article 168 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

–  having regard to Rules 206 and 212 of its Rules of Procedure,

1.  Decides to set up a subcommittee to the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety;

2.  Decides that the subcommittee shall be responsible for public health matters, and particularly the programmes and specific actions in the field of public health, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, health aspects of bioterrorism, the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control;

3.  Decides that, in Part VIII, point 2, of Annex VI to its Rules of Procedure, the following sentence is added:"‘In this context, the committee is assisted by a subcommittee on public health.’;"

4.  The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety remains responsible for the examination of legislative proposals, and votes shall take place therein;

5.  Decides that the subcommittee shall have 30 members;

6.  Decides, with reference to the decisions of the Conference of Presidents of 30 June 2019 and 9 January 2020 relating to the composition of subcommittee bureaux, that the committee bureaux may consist of up to four vice-chairs;

7.  Instructs its President to forward this decision to the Council and the Commission, for information.

(1) OJ C 482, 23.12.2016, p. 160.