Bundestag committees of the 16th German Bundestag

The following list contains the permanent Bundestag committees of the 16th German Bundestag (2005–2009):

Committee	Chair	Members	CDU / CSU	SPD	FDP	The left	Alliance 90 / The Greens
Committee on Election Review, Immunity and Rules of Procedure	Thomas Strobl	13:	5	5	1	1	1
Petitions Committee	Kersten Naumann	25:	9	9	3	2	2
Foreign Affairs Committee	Ruprecht Polenz	36:	13	13	4th	3	3
Home Committee	Sebastian Edathy	36:	13	13	4th	3	3
Sports Committee	Peter Wilhelm Danckert	16:	6th	6th	2	1	1
Legal Committee	Andreas Schmidt	31:	11	11	3	3	3
Finance committee	Eduard Oswald	33:	13	13	4th	3	3
Budget Committee	Otto Fricke	41:	15th	15th	4th	4th	3
Committee on Economy and Technology	Edelgard Bulmahn	36:	13	13	4th	3	3
Committee on Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection	Ulrike Höfken	31:	11	11	3	3	3
Labor and Social Affairs Committee	Gerald White	36:	13	13	4th	3	3
Defense Committee	Ulrike Merten	30:	11	11	3	3	2
Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth	Kerstin Griese	31:	11	11	3	3	3
Committee on Health	Martina Bunge	31:	11	11	3	3	3
Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development	Klaus Lippold	36:	13	13	4th	3	3
Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety	Petra Bierwirth	33:	11	11	3	3	3
Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid	Herta Däubler-Gmelin	16:	6th	6th	2	1	1
Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment	Ulla Burchardt	31:	11	11	3	3	3
Economic Cooperation and Development Committee	Thilo Hoppe	22:	8th	8th	2	2	2
Tourism Committee	Marlene Mortler	16:	6th	6th	2	1	1
Committee for the Affairs of the European Union There are also 16 members of the European Parliament	Gunther Krichbaum	33:	12	12	3	3	3
Culture and Media Committee	Hans-Joachim Otto	20:	7th	7th	2	2	2

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