Main governing bodies in the EP – Parliament’s committees

There are 20 standing committees in the EP, each with a different set of responsibilities. The committees prepare
the work of the plenary session, drawing up reports, in particular on legislative proposals from the Commission, and own-initiative reports.
The bar chart below shows the committees of the EP ordered by the number of MEPs who sit on them. It shows the
chairs, elected by the members of each committee, together with their political group and nationality. The chairs of the committees meet together in the Conference of Committee Chairs, and have elected Jerzy Buzek, chair of the
ITRE Committee, as their president. The pie chart shows the distribution of committee chairs between the political
groups, using the same colour code as before.