Bundestag committees of the 15th German Bundestag

The permanent Bundestag committees of the 15th German Bundestag (2002–2005) are listed below:

Committee	Chair	Members	SPD	CDU / CSU	Alliance 90 / The Greens	FDP	Non- attached
Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure	Erika Simm	15:	7th	6th	1	1
Petitions Committee	Karlheinz Guttmacher	25:	11	10	2	2
Foreign Affairs Committee	Volker Rühe	37:	16	15th	3	3
Home Committee	Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast	38:	16	15th	3	3	1 1
Sports Committee	Peter Rauen	15:	7th	6th	1	1
Legal Committee	Andreas Schmidt	33:	14th	13	3	3
Finance committee	Christine Scheel	33:	14th	13	3	3
Budget Committee	Manfred Carstens	42: 44 (from November 7, 2002):	18th 19th	17th 18th	4th	3	1 1
Committee on Economy and Labor	Rainer Wend	42:	18th	17th	4th	3
Defense Committee	Reinhold Robbe	30:	13	12	3	2
Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth	Kerstin Griese	30:	13	12	3	2
Health and Social Security Committee	Klaus Kirschner	40:	17th	16	4th	3
Transport, Building and Housing Committee	Eduard Oswald	40:	17th	16	4th	3
Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety	Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker	33:	13	13	4th	3
Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid	Christa Nickels	17:	7th	7th	2	1
Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment	Cornelia Pieper	33:	14th	13	3	3
Economic Cooperation and Development Committee	Rudolf Kraus	23:	10	9	2	2
Tourism Committee	Ernst Hinsken	15:	7th	6th	1	1
Committee on European Union Affairs	Matthias Wissmann	33:	14th	13	3	3
Culture and Media Committee	Monika Griefahn	15:	7th	6th	1	1

¹ : The members of the PDS Petra Pau and Gesine Lötzsch only have an advisory role in the committees and do not count as members, since the PDS does not form a parliamentary group in the 15th German Bundestag.

The parliamentary groups that chair the respective committee are marked in color.