Amendment of Annex VI – Powers and responsibilities of the standing committees
TA-10-2024-0064 · P10_TA(2024)0064 · PE767.561
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Parliament sets up a standing committee on Security and Defence and a standing committee on Public Health, replacing the subcommittees on Security and Defence and on Public Health, and amends Annex VI of its Rules of Procedure accordingly.¶¶¶ The Security and Defence committee is responsible for EU security and defence integration, CSDP, defence industry, and related matters; the Public Health committee covers public health issues such as pharmaceuticals, health crisis preparedness, and mental health.¶¶¶ The Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee is renamed the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety, with responsibilities adjusted to exclude public health.¶¶
Key points
- Sets up a standing committee on Security and Defence, ending the subcommittee on Security and Defence, and amends the Foreign Affairs committee's responsibilities.¶
- The Security and Defence committee is responsible for EU security and defence integration, CSDP scrutiny, European Defence Agency, PESCO, defence industry, and related funding.¶
- Sets up a standing committee on Public Health, ending the subcommittee on Public Health, and renames the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee to Environment, Climate and Food Safety.¶¶
- The Security and Defence committee's remit includes threats to territorial integrity, CSDP missions, hybrid threats, defence capabilities, military mobility, and oversight of defence structures.¶¶¶
- The Security and Defence committee handles defence-specific international agreements, relations with NATO and other partners, and multilateral frameworks for security and arms control.¶¶¶
- The Environment, Climate and Food Safety committee covers environmental and climate policy, pollution, biodiversity, chemicals, sustainable development, and food safety.¶¶
- The Public Health committee covers pharmaceuticals, medical devices, public health programmes, health crisis preparedness, mental health, patients' rights, and bioterrorism health aspects.¶¶¶
- Each new standing committee will have 43 members, and their bureaux may have up to four vice-chairs.¶¶
- The Security and Defence committee must cooperate with other committees, especially the Foreign Affairs committee.¶
Who is affected
- The European Parliament's standing committees, particularly Foreign Affairs and Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, whose responsibilities are changed.¶¶
- The subcommittees on Security and Defence and on Public Health cease to exist.
- The new standing committees on Security and Defence and on Public Health are created with defined responsibilities.¶¶