Committee on European Union Affairs
The Committee for the Affairs of the European Union (European Committee) is a German Bundestag committee that is prescribed by the Basic Law . As an “integration and cross-cutting committee”, the committee is the central location for European policy decision-making processes, regardless of the factual competence of other committees for certain issues. In addition, the EU committee controls the federal government in matters of the European Union . As a special feature, the EU committee can exercise the rights of the Bundestag and issue statements, so-called plenary-substituting resolutions, to the federal government in accordance with Article 23.3 of the Basic Law. In addition, the EU Committee is the only Bundestag committee to be able to introduce amendments to the recommendations of specialist committees in the Bundestag. The EU Committee is also responsible for maintaining contacts with the European Parliament and the parliaments of EU Member States, candidate countries and candidate countries and takes part in the meetings of the Conference of Committees for Community and European Affairs of the National Parliaments in the European Union (COSAC) With.
The CDU MP Gunther Krichbaum has been chairman since 2007 .
The EU committee consists of 34 members of the Bundestag. In addition, the EU Committee also includes 15 German members of the European Parliament who are entitled to participate but not entitled to vote. The EU parliamentarians can take part in the deliberations of the EU committee and thus ensure that the work at national and European level is interlinked.
history
Until the first direct election of the European Parliament in 1979 , the EU parliamentarians were elected by the national parliaments, so the German EU members were also members of the German Bundestag. After 1979 (first direct election of the European Parliament) these double mandates expired and the information provided to the Bundestag on EU matters deteriorated, whereupon a commission of the Council of Elders developed a suggestion for improvement. The 10th Bundestag then founded a European Commission in 1983, which was made up of 11 Bundestag and 11 European MPs, but was still not sufficiently involved in the structures and could no longer cope with the growing number of proposals. Therefore, from 1987 onwards, the commission was no longer set up and the tasks were instead transferred to a sub-committee of the Foreign Affairs Committee . In 1991, the 12th Bundestag set up the “Committee on European Community Affairs ” (EC Committee), which primarily dealt with treaties for the creation of the European Union and the Economic and Monetary Union . It consisted of 33 members of the Bundestag and 11 members of the European Parliament as authorized members. As a cross-sectional committee, however, the EC committee was not in charge of decision-making templates, as these were drawn up by the respective specialist committees. In 1994 the 13th Bundestag finally set up today's EU Committee with some special rights.
Europa Hall
The meeting rooms of the Bundestag committees are located in the rotunda of the Paul Löbe House . A special feature is the Europa Hall (room number 4,900), the meeting room of the EU committee. It is located on the second and third floors of the large east rotunda and is significantly larger than the other committee rooms (261 m²), which indicates its special position and size. In addition, it has interpreting booths, which is why many international events take place in the Europa Hall.
Members of the 18th electoral term
The 34 members of the committee consist of 17 members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , 11 members of the SPD parliamentary group and 3 members each from the left-wing parliamentary group and three members of the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . The following table lists the members and their deputies (as of July 2015).
- * Supervisors
- ** Speaker
Members of the 19th electoral term
The 39 members of the Committee are made up of 14 members of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group , eight members of the SPD parliamentary group , five members of the AFD parliamentary group and in each case four members of the FDP , the Left faction and the parliamentary group Alliance 90 / The Greens together . The CDU politician Gunther Krichbaum was re- elected as committee chairman and Markus Töns from the SPD parliamentary group as his deputy. The full members are listed in the following table.
| CDU / CSU - full member | SPD - full member | AfD - full member | FDP - full member | Die Linke - Full member | Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen - Full member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philipp Amthor | Nezahat Baradari | Siegbert Droese | Thomas Hacker | Diether Dehm | Franziska Brantner * |
| Ursula Groden-Kranich | Angelika Glöckner | Martin Hebner | Konstantin Kuhle | Andrej Hunko * | Claudia Müller |
| Florian Hahn * / ** | Metin Hakverdi | Norbert Kleinwächter | Michael Georg Link | Thomas North | Manuel Sarrazin |
| Mark Helfrich | Christian Petry * | Corinna Miazga | Gerald Ullrich * | Alexander Ulrich | Gerhard Zickenheiner |
| Heribert Shepherd | Axel Schäfer | Harald Weyel * / ** | |||
| Gunther Krichbaum | Johannes Schraps | ||||
| Saskia Ludwig | Claudia thousand | ||||
| Matern von Marshal | Markus Töns | ||||
| Axel Mueller | |||||
| Christoph Ploß | |||||
| Detlef Seif * | |||||
| Katrin Staffler | |||||
| Volker Ullrich | |||||
| Oliver Wittke |
- * Supervisors
- ** Speaker
Web links
- EU committee
- Publication Bundestag and Europe (PDF; 2.6 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Art. 45 GG
- ^ Tasks of the European Committee. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ COSAC. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Bundestag and Europe. (No longer available online.) German Bundestag, p. 3ff. , archived from the original on July 23, 2015 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Europa Sal. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ The Paul Löbe House. Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
