Seventh European Parliament
Duration: 14 July 2009 –
President (1st ½):	Jerzy Buzek
Commission:	Barroso
Largest party:	EPP (265 of 736)
MEPs:	736
Elections:	June 2009
Governing treaty	Nice[nb 1]
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The Seventh European Parliament is the seventh five-year term of the elected European Parliament. It began on Tuesday 14 July 2009 in Strasbourg^[1] following the 2009 elections and will end after the 2014 elections.

Contents 1 Major events 2 Activity 3 Major resolutions and positions 4 Committees 4.1 Summary 4.2 Temporary committees 4.3 Committees of enquiry 5 Delegations 6 Political groups 6.1 Members in groups by country 7 Leadership 7.1 Presidents 7.2 Vice-Presidents 7.3 Quaestors 8 Membership 9 Secretariat 10 See also 10.1 Elections 10.2 Membership lists 11 Notes 12 References 13 External links

[edit] Major events

• 4-7 June 2009
  • Elections to the Seventh Parliament.
• 14 July 2009
  • First meeting (constitutive session) of the Seventh Parliament.
  • Jerzy Buzek is elected as President of the European Parliament.
  • Vice-presidents elections.

[edit] Activity

	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	Source
Reports							[2]
Resolutions and positions							[3]
Parliamentary questions							[4]
Written declarations							[5]

[edit] Major resolutions and positions

Resolution/position number	Procedure number	Notes

[edit] Committees

[edit] Summary

Type	Number	Sources	Notes
Standing committee		[6]
Temporary committee		[7]
Committee of enquiry		[8]

[edit] Temporary committees

Code	Committee	Report	Sources

[edit] Committees of enquiry

Code	Committee	Report	Sources

[edit] Delegations

Type	Number	Sources
Europe delegations		[9]
Non-Europe delegations		[10]
Ad-hoc delegations		[11]

[edit] Political groups

See membership below for details of size

Group name		Acronym	Seats	Percent	Chairs	Vice-Presidents
	European People's Party (Christian Democrats)	EPP	265	36%	Joseph Daul	5
	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	S&D	184	25%	Martin Schulz	5
	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	ALDE	84	11.4%	Guy Verhofstadt	2
	The Greens–European Free Alliance	GREENS/EFA	55	7.5%	Rebecca Harms Daniel Cohn-Bendit	1
	European Conservatives and Reformists	ECR	54	7.3%	Michał Kamiński	0[nb 2]
	European United Left–Nordic Green Left	GUE-NGL	35	4.8%	Lothar Bisky	0
	Europe of Freedom and Democracy	EFD	32	4.3%	Nigel Farage Francesco Speroni	0
	Non-Inscrits[nb 3]	NA	27	3.7%	---	1[nb 2]

[edit] Members in groups by country

Political group[2] Country	EPP	S&D	ALDE	Greens-EFA	ECR	EUL-NGL	EFD	NI	MEPs
Austria	6	4		2				3	17
Belgium	5	5	5	5	1			2	22
Bulgaria	6	4	5					2	17
Cyprus	2	2				2			6
Czech Republic	2	7			9	4			22
Denmark	1	4	3	2		1	2		13
Estonia	1	1	3	1					6
Finland	4	2	4	2			1		13
France	29	14	6	14		5	1	3	72
Germany	42	23	12	14		8			99
Greece	8	8		1		3	2		22
Hungary	14	4			1			3	22
Ireland	4	3	4			1			12
Italy	35	21	7				9		72
Latvia	3	1	1	1	1	1			8
Lithuania	4	3	2		1		2		12
Luxembourg	3	1	1	1					6
Malta	2	3							5
Netherlands	5	3	6	3	1	2	1	4	25
Poland	28	7			15				50
Portugal	10	7				5			22
Romania	14	11	5					3	33
Slovakia	6	5	1				1		13
Slovenia	3	2	2						7
Spain	23	21	2	2		1		1	50
Sweden	5	5	4	3		1			18
United Kingdom		13	11	5	25	1	13	4	72
Total	265	184	84	55	54	35	32	27	736

[edit] Leadership

[edit] Presidents

Term	President (or candidate)	Group		State	Votes
14 July 2009- [3]	Jerzy Buzek		EPP	Poland	555
	Eva-Britt Svensson		GUE/NGL	Sweden	89

[edit] Vice-Presidents

Group	Vice-President (or candidate)	State	Votes in:			Pick
			1st round	2nd round	3rd round
EPP	Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou	Greece	355	---	---
	Roberta Angelilli	Italy	277	266	274
	Alejo Vidal-Quadras	Spain	332	303	308
	Pál Schmitt	Hungary	266	239	257
	Rainer Wieland	Germany	267	235	237
S&D	Giovanni Pittella	Italy	360	---	---
	Stavros Lambrinidis	Greece	348	---	---
	Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez	Spain	330	292	327
	Dagmar Roth-Behrendt	Germany	299	288	287
	Libor Rouček	Czech Republic	284	276	278
ALDE	Diana Wallis	United Kingdom	303	274	272
	Silvana Koch-Mehrin	Germany	148	141	186
ECR	Michał Kamiński	Poland	194	175	174
	Edward McMillan-Scott (non-attached)[nb 2]	United Kingdom	237	242	244
GREENS/EFA	Isabelle Durant	Belgium	268	259	276

[edit] Quaestors

Group	Quaestor (or candidate)	State	Votes in:			Pick
			1st round	2nd round	3rd round
EPP	Jim Higgins	Ireland	352	---	---
	Astrid Lulling	Luxembourg	322	327	306
	Ria Oomen-Ruijten	Netherlands	161	187	186
S&D	Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg	Poland	398	---	---
ALDE	Bill Newton Dunn	United Kingdom	164	202	208
ECR	James Nicholson	United Kingdom	171	172	176
GUE-NGL	Jiří Maštálka	Czech Republic	206	283	293
EFD	Francesco Speroni	Italy	145	130	131

[edit] Membership

After the 2009 election, the members formed seven groups with around 26 independent members, mainly from the far right which failed to unify into a political group. With the Treaty of Lisbon not in force in time for the elections, the national distribution followed the rules of the Treaty of Nice which necessitated a reduction to 736 members. Extra members will join the chamber if Lisbon comes into force.^[4]

For the seventh parliament, the number of women increased from 31% to 35% (the highest to date, from 16% in 1979) with increases in most countries. The largest percentage was in Sweden, with 56% of MEPs women, followed by Estonia with 50%. The lowest was Malta with no women members at all, followed by the Czech Republic with 18%, down from 21%.^[5]

From inauguration, the youngest member was Emilie Turunen of Denmark (born in 1984 making her 25) and the oldest member was Ciriaco de Mita of Italy (born 1928 making him 81).^[6] Usually the oldest member would preside over the chamber for the election of the Parliament's President. However, with concern that the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen would be the oldest member (rather than De Mita) the rules were changed to give this role to the outgoing President.^[7]

Groups

Group		Seats
		Inauguration	14 July 2009-
	European People's Party	265	265
	Socialists and Democrats	184	184
	Liberals and Democrats	84	84
	Greens/European Free Alliance	55	55
	Conservatives and Reformists	55	54
	European United Left - Nordic Green Left	35	35
	Europe of Freedom and Democracy	32	32
	Non-attached	26	27

Apportionment

State	Seats		State	Seats
Germany	99		France	72
United Kingdom	72		Italy	72
Spain	50		Poland	50
Romania	33		Netherlands	25
Greece	22		Portugal	22
Belgium	22		Czech Republic	22
Hungary	22		Sweden	18
Austria	17		Bulgaria	17
Denmark	13		Slovakia	13
Finland	13		Ireland	12
Lithuania	12		Latvia	8
Slovenia	7		Estonia	6
Cyprus	6		Luxembourg	6
Malta	5		Total	736

[edit] Secretariat

Office	Post	Name	Source
Office of the Secretary-General	Secretary-General of the European Parliament	?	[12]
Legal Service	Jurisconsult of the European Parliament	?	[13]
Directorate-General for the Presidency	Director-General	?	[14]
Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union	Director-General	?	[15]
Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union	Director-General	?	[16]
Directorate-General for Communication	Director-General	?	[17]
Directorate-General for Personnel	Director-General	?	[18]
Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics	Director-General	?	[19]
Directorate-General for Translation	Director-General	?	[20]
Directorate-General for Interpretation and Conferences	Director-General	?	[21]
Directorate-General for Finance	Director-General	?	[22]

[edit] See also

[edit] Elections

[edit] Membership lists

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Nice and all preceding amending treaties.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Edward MacMillan-Scott, standing in opposition to the policy of the ECR and his national party, the Conservatives, was expelled from the group.
3. ^ Independents, not a group

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• European Parliament
• Explanation of codecision
• European Parliament positions
• European Parliament and European Council common positions
• European Parliament Conciliation Committee Joint texts

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