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Bureau of the European Parliament

Administration bureau

Bureau of the European Parliament

Administration bureau

The Bureau of the European Parliament is responsible for matters relating to the budget, administration, organisation and staff in the European Parliament. It is composed of the President of the European Parliament along with all 14 Vice-Presidents and the five Quaestors (in a consultative capacity). They are elected for two and a half years (renewable term) with the President holding a casting vote. Elections are usually held at the start, and at the midpoint, of each Parliamentary term.

Members

2024-2027

Bureau of the European Parliament (2024-2027)

Main article: 2024 Bureau of the European Parliament election

**President****Vice Presidents****Quaestors**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Roberta Metsola**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Sabine Verheyen**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Ewa Kopacz**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Esteban González Pons**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Katarina Barley**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Pina Picierno**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Victor Negrescu**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Martin Hojsík**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Christel Schaldemose**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Javi López**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Sophie Wilmès**
Greens–European Free Alliance}}"**G/EFA****Nicolae Ștefănuță**
European Conservatives and Reformists}};"**ECR****Roberts Zīle**
European Conservatives and Reformists}};"**ECR****Antonella Sberna**
European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}"**LEFT****Younous Omarjee**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Andrey Kovatchev**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Marc Angel**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Miriam Lexmann**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Fabienne Keller**
European Conservatives and Reformists}};"**ECR****Kosma Złotowski**

2022-2024

**President****Vice Presidents****Quaestors**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Roberta Metsola**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Othmar Karas**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Ewa Kopacz**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Rainer Wieland**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Pina Picierno**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Pedro Silva Pereira**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Eva Kaili**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Evelyn Regner**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Katarina Barley**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Dita Charanzová**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Michal Šimečka**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Nicola Beer**
European Conservatives and Reformists}};"**ECR****Roberts Zīle**
European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}"**GUE/NGL****Dimitrios Papadimoulis**
Greens–European Free Alliance}};"**G/EFA****Heidi Hautala**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Anne Sander**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Christophe Hansen**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Monika Beňová**
Renew Europe}}"**RE****Fabienne Keller**
Greens–European Free Alliance}};"**G/EFA****Marcel Kolaja**

2019-2022

**President****Vice-Presidents****Quaestors**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****David Sassoli**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Mairead McGuinness**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Rainer Wieland**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Othmar Karas**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Ewa Kopacz**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Lívia Járóka**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Pedro Silva Pereira**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Katarina Barley**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Klára Dobrev**
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}"**RE****Dita Charanzová**
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}"**RE****Nicola Beer**
Greens–European Free Alliance}};"**G/EFA****Heidi Hautala**
Greens–European Free Alliance}};"**G/EFA****Marcel Kolaja**
European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}"**GUE/NGL****Dimitrios Papadimoulis**
**NI****Fabio Massimo Castaldo**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****Anne Sander**
European People's Party}}"**EPP****David Casa**
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}"**S&D****Monika Beňová**
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}"**RE****Gilles Boyer**
European Conservatives and Reformists}};"**ECR****Karol Karski**

2009-2012

MemberPositionPolitical groupConstituency
Jerzy BuzekPresidentEuropean People's PartySilesian (Poland)
Giovanni PittellaVice PresidentSocialists & DemocratsSouthern Italy
Rodi Kratsa-TsagaropoulouVice PresidentEuropean People's PartyGreece
Anni PodimataVice PresidentSocialists & DemocratsGreece
Miguel Angel Martínez MartínezVice PresidentSocialists & DemocratsSpain
Alejo Vidal-Quadras RocaVice PresidentEuropean People's PartySpain
Dagmar Roth-BehrendtVice PresidentSocialists & DemocratsGermany
Libor RoučekVice PresidentSocialists & DemocratsCzech Republic
Isabelle DurantVice PresidentGreen-EFAFrench-speaking Belgium
Roberta AngelilliVice PresidentEuropean People's PartyCentral Italy
Diana WallisVice PresidentAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for EuropeYorkshire and the Humber (UK)
László TőkésVice PresidentEuropean People's PartyRomania
Edward McMillan-ScottVice PresidentAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for EuropeYorkshire and the Humber (UK)
Rainer WielandVice PresidentEuropean People's PartyGermany
Giles ChichesterVice PresidentEuropean Conservatives and ReformistsSouth West England (UK)
Lidia Geringer de OedenbergQuaestorSocialists & DemocratsLower Silesian and Opole (Poland)
Jim HigginsQuaestorEuropean People's PartyNorth-West Ireland
Astrid LullingQuaestorEuropean People's PartyLuxembourg
Jiří MaštálkaQuaestorEuropean United Left–Nordic Green LeftCzech Republic
Bill Newton DunnQuaestorAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for EuropeEast Midlands (UK)

Resigned

  • Pál Schmitt, Vice President, EPP, Hungary - became President of the Republic of Hungary on 6 August 2010 :replaced by Tőkés (Romania)
  • Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Vice President, ALDE, Germany - resigned over doctoral thesis plagiarism affair on 11 May 2011 :replaced by Chichester (South West England)
  • Stavros Lambrinidis, Vice President, S & D, Greece - became Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece on 17 June 2011 :replaced by Podimata (Greece)

2007-2009

  • Hans-Gert Pöttering: President
  • Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou: Vice-President
  • Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca: Vice-President
  • Gérard Onesta: Vice-President
  • Edward McMillan-Scott: Vice-President
  • Mario Mauro: Vice-President
  • Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez: Vice-President
  • Luigi Cocilovo: Vice-President
  • Mechtild Rothe: Vice-President
  • Luisa Morgantini: Vice-President
  • Pierre Moscovici: Vice-President
  • Manuel António dos Santos: Vice-President
  • Diana Wallis: Vice-President
  • Marek Siwiec: Vice-President
  • Adam Bielan: Vice-President
  • James Nicholson: Quaestor
  • Astrid Lulling: Quaestor
  • Mia De Vits: Quaestor
  • Ingo Friedrich: Quaestor
  • Szabolcs Fazakas: Quaestor
  • Jan Mulder: Quaestor

Rules of procedure of the European Parliament

  1. The Bureau shall carry out the duties assigned to it under the Rules of Procedure.

  2. The Bureau shall take financial, organisational and administrative decisions on matters concerning Members and the internal organisation of Parliament, its Secretariat and its bodies.

  3. The Bureau shall take decisions on matters relating to the conduct of sittings.

  4. The Bureau shall adopt the provisions referred to in Rule 31 concerning Non-attached Members.

  5. The Bureau shall decide the establishment plan of the Secretariat and lay down regulations relating to the administrative and financial situation of officials and other servants.

  6. The Bureau shall draw up Parliament's preliminary draft estimates.

  7. The Bureau shall adopt the guidelines for the Quaestors pursuant to Rule 25.

  8. The Bureau shall be the authority responsible for authorising meetings of committees away from the usual places of work, hearings and study and fact-finding journeys by rapporteurs.

Where such meetings are authorised, the language arrangements shall be determined on the basis of the official languages used and requested by the members and substitutes of the committee concerned.

The same shall apply in the case of the delegations, except where the members and substitutes concerned agree otherwise.

  1. The Bureau shall appoint the Secretary-General pursuant to Rule 197.

  2. The Bureau shall lay down the implementing rules relating to European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 on the regulations governing political parties at European level and the rules regarding their funding and shall, in implementing that Regulation, assume the tasks conferred upon it by these Rules of Procedure.

  3. The President and/or the Bureau may entrust one or more members of the Bureau with general or specific tasks lying within the competence of the President and/or the Bureau. At the same time the ways and means of carrying them out shall be laid down.

  4. When a new Parliament is elected, the outgoing Bureau shall remain in office until the first sitting of the new Parliament.}}

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