European Parliament Committee on Legal Affairs

The Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) is a committee of the European Parliament.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the committee are the interpretation and application of international and European law and the compliance of European Union acts with the treaties of the European Union. It is also responsible for legislation in the areas of civil law, commercial law, intellectual property and procedural law. It is responsible for matters relating to the statutes and political immunity of MEPs and EU staff.[1]

The Member of the European Commission responsible for legal affairs is the European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality. In the European Commission. The Committee responds to the Justice and Home Affairs Council of the Council of the European Union.

Pre-hearing of designated nominees to the European Commission

The Committee scrutinizes the declaration of financial interests of designated nominees to the European Commission and adverts about conflicts of interest. It may declare a nominee unable to carry out his duties of a commissioner if upcoming concerns are not cleared up. In September 2019 the committee rejected two nominees of the Von der Leyen Commission, in particular Rovana Plumb and László Trócsányi.[2][3]

This scrutiny should not to be confound with the subsequent hearings dealing with the European Commission candidates' portfolio.[4]

Members in the 8th legislature (2014–2019)
MEPCountryGroup
Max AnderssonGreens/EFA
Joëlle BergeronEFDD
Marie-Christine BoutonnetNon-Inscrits
Jean-Marie Cavada (Vice-Chair)ALDE
Kostas ChrysogonosGUE/NGL
Therese Comodini CachiaEPP
Mady Delvaux-Stehres (Vice-Chair)S&D
Andrzej DudaECR
Rosa Estaràs FerragutEPP
Laura FerraraEFDD
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (Vice-Chair)S&D
Mary HoneyballS&D
Dietmar KösterS&D
Sajjad KarimECR
Gilles LebretonNon-Inscrits
Antonio Marinho e PintoALDE
Jiří MaštálkaGUE/NGL
Alessandra MorettiS&D
Emil RadevEPP
Julia RedaGreens/EFA
Evelyn RegnerS&D
Pavel Svoboda (Chair)EPP
József SzájerEPP
Axel Voss (Vice-Chair)EPP
Tadeusz ZwiefkaEPP

Members in the 9th legislature (2019–2024)[5]

Following the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union chair Lucy Nethsingha was replaced by Adrián Vázquez Lázara on 17 February 2020.[6]

MEPCountryGroup
Adrián Vázquez Lázara (Chair)RE
Sergey Lagodinsky (Vice-Chair)Greens/EFA
Marion Walsmann (Vice-Chair)EPP
Iban García del Blanco (Vice-Chair)S&D
Raffaele Stancanelli (Vice-Chair)ECR
Manon AubryGUE/NGL
Gunnar BeckID
Geoffroy DidierEPP
Angel DzhambazkiEPP
Jean-Paul GarraudID
Esteban González PonsEPP
Mislav KolakušićNI
Gilles LebretonID
Karen MelchiorRE
Jiří PospíšilEPP
Franco RobertiS&D
Marcos Ros SempereS&D
Liesje SchreinemacherRE
Stéphane SéjournéRE
József SzájerEPP
Marie ToussaintGreens/EFA
Axel VossEPP
Tiemo WölkenS&D
Lara WoltersS&D
Javier ZarzalejosEPP

References
  1. Duties of the JURI-committee.
  2. Romanian, Hungarian Commissioner nominees rejected
  3. "Romania and Hungary's Commission picks rejected for second time". POLITICO. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. How Parliament votes the European Commission into office
  5. JURI-members in the 9th European Parliament legislature
  6. Impact of Post-Brexit on EP Committees
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