Commissioner for Administration

The Commissioner for Administration is a member of the European Commission . He is responsible for the personnel administration of the authority, which has around 25,000 employees. The office has existed in various forms since 1981; from 1999 the commissioner for administration was one of the vice-presidents of the commission . From 2004 to 2010, the department also included audits and the fight against fraud. In the Barroso II Commission , which took office in February 2010, the administrative portfolio falls under the responsibility of the Commissioner for Institutional Relations , while audits and the fight against fraud are transferred to the Taxation and Customs Union portfolio.

Previous incumbent

Commissioner	Term of office	Country	national party	european party	Responsibilities
Johannes Hahn	since 2019	Austria	ÖVP	EPP	Budget and administration
Maroš Šefčovič	2010-2019	Slovakia	SMER related parties	SPE related parties	Vice President , Institutional Relations and Administration
Siim Kallas	2004-2010	Estonia	ERP	ELDR	Vice President , Administration , Audit and Fraud Prevention
Neil Kinnock	1999-2004	United Kingdom	Labor	SPE	Vice President , Administration
Erkki Liikanen	1995-1999	Finland	SDP	SPE	Budget , staff and administration
Karel Van Miert	1993-1995	Belgium	SP	SPE	Competition , human resources, administration , translation , data processing
António Cardoso e Cunha	1989-1993	Portugal	Psd	EPP	Energy , Euratom , Small Business, Human Resources and Translation
Henning Christophersen	1985-1989	Denmark	Venstre	ELDR	Human resources and administration , financial control, budget
Michael O'Kennedy , Richard Burke (*)	1981-1985	Ireland	FF (O'Kennedy), FG (Burke)	national liberal (O'Kennedy), EPP (Burke)	Personnel and Administration , Statistical Office

(*) During the Thorn Commission (1981-85), both Irish Commissioners were responsible for administrative matters.