Constitutional Affairs Committee

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The Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) is a committee of the European Parliament . The committee chairman has been Antonio Tajani ( FI / EPP ) since July 2019 .

The committee deals with all issues related to the institutional structure of the European Union , such as the participation of the European Parliament in intergovernmental conferences and the European Convention , the evaluation of the EU Treaty and the institutional consequences of EU enlargements . In addition, he maintains relations between the European Parliament and the other EU institutions and deals with questions relating to the rules of procedure of the Parliament, the European parties and the electoral procedure in the European elections .

The committee was set up in 1982 at the initiative of Altiero Spinelli as the Institutional Committee . Its first activity was the drafting of a constitution for the European Union, which was passed by the European Parliament in 1984 but not ratified by the member states. Later on, the committee limited itself mainly to monitoring the institutional development of the EU and making proposals for recommendations that were adopted by the plenary session of Parliament. Since the treaties on which the EU's institutional system is based can only be changed by the Member States and not by the EU institutions themselves, the European Parliament's influence on these issues is rather limited.

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  1. ↑ Parliament's committees-elect chairs and vice-chairs | News | European Parliament. July 10, 2019, accessed on July 18, 2019 .