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Sixth European Parliament

April 11, 2024

The sixth European Parliament was the sixth five-year term of the elected European Parliament. It began on Tuesday 20 July 2004 in Strasbourg[1] following the 2004 elections and ended after the 2009 elections.

6th European Parliament
20 July 2004 – 7 May 2009
President (1st Half)Josep Borrell
President (2nd Half)Hans-Gert Poettering
CommissionBarroso
Political groups
MEPs
  • 732 (2004–2006)
  • 785 (2007–2009)
Elections
Nice[nb 1]

Major events edit

Activity edit

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Source
Reports 73 415 481 519 515 268 [1]
Resolutions and positions 80 440 483 494 514 215 [2]
Parliamentary questions 2525 6310 7032 7765 8266 3373 [3]
Written declarations 27 82 91 115 106 52 [4]

Major resolutions and positions edit

Resolution/position number Procedure number Notes
P6_TA(2006)0552 COD/2003/0256 Amended and approved Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, the REACH regulation
P6_TA(2007)0032 INI/2006/2200 European Parliament resolution on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisoners
P6_TA(2006)0490 COD/2004/0001 Amended and approved Directive 2006/123/EC, the Bolkestein directive
P6_TA(2007)0401 COD/2004/0047 Amended and approved Directive 2007/58/EC, the rail competition directive
P6_TA(2005)0275 COD/2002/0047 Rejected the proposed directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions
P6_TA(2007)0199 COD/2006/0133 Amended and approved Regulation (EC) No 717/2007, the mobile phone roaming regulation
P6_TA(2008)0342 COD/2006/0130 Amended and approved Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008, the air pricing clarity regulation
P6_TA(2008)0293 COD/2005/0167 Amended and approved Directive 2008/115/EC, the illegal immigration directive
P6_TA(2005)0132 INI/2004/2172 European Parliament resolution on the Common Foreign and Security Policy

Committees edit

Further information: Committees of the European Parliament

Summary edit

Type Number Sources Notes
Standing committee 20 (+2 subcommittees) [5]
Temporary committee 3 [6] See below for list
Committee of enquiry 1 [7] See below for list

Temporary committees edit

Code Committee Report Sources
CLIM Temporary Committee on Climate Change A6-2008-0495 [8]
TDIP Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries
by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners 		A6-2007-0020 [9]
FINP Temporary Committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007–2013 A6-2005-0153 [10]

Committees of enquiry edit

Code Committee Report Sources
EQUI Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society A6-2007-0203 [11]

Delegations edit

See also: European Parliament Delegations
Type Number Sources
Europe delegations 10 [12]
Non-Europe delegations 24 [13]
Ad-hoc delegations 1 [14]

Political groups edit

Further information: Political groups of the European Parliament
See membership below for details of size

Leadership edit

Presidents edit

Further information: President of the European Parliament
Term President
(or candidate) 		Group State Votes
20 July 2004–
14 January 2007 		Josep Borrell   PES   Spain 388
Bronisław Geremek   ALDE   Poland 208
Francis Wurtz   EUL/NGL   France 51
15 January 2007–
14 July 2009[2]		 Hans-Gert Pöttering   EPP-ED   Germany 450
Monica Frassoni   G/EFA   Italy 145
Francis Wurtz   EUL/NGL   France 48
Jens-Peter Bonde   IND/DEM   Denmark 46

Vice-Presidents edit

Further information: Vice-President of the European Parliament

Quaestors edit

Further information: Quaestor (European Parliament)

Chairs of the political groups edit

Further information: Political groups of the European Parliament
Group Chairs
EPP-ED Hans-Gert Pöttering (until 2007), Joseph Daul (from 2007)
PES Martin Schulz
ALDE Graham Watson
G/EFA Monica Frassoni
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
EUL-NGL Alonso José Puerta
Francis Wurtz
IND/DEM Jens-Peter Bonde (until 2008), Kathy Sinnott (2008), Hanne Dahl (from 2008)
Nigel Farage (full term)
UEN Brian Crowley (until 2009)
Cristiana Muscardini
ITS Bruno Gollnisch (2007)

Membership edit

Further information: Member of the European Parliament
See List of members of the European Parliament 2004–2009 for the full list.
Groups
Group Seats
2004
[nb 4]
[4]		 2007
[nb 5]
[5]		 2007
[nb 6]
[6]		 2009
[nb 7]
EPP-ED 268 277 288 288
PES 200 218 215 217
ALDE 88 106 101 104
G/EFA 42 42 43 43
EUL-NGL 41 40 41 41
IND/DEM 33[nb 8] 23 24 22
UEN 27 44 44 40
ITS n/a 20 n/a n/a
NI 33 14 29 30
Apportionment
State Seats State Seats
  Germany 99   France 78
  United Kingdom 78   Italy 78
  Spain 54   Poland 54
  Romania[nb 9] 35   Netherlands 27
  Greece 24   Portugal 24
  Belgium 24   Czech Republic 24
  Hungary 24   Sweden 19
  Austria 18   Bulgaria[nb 9] 18
  Denmark 14   Slovakia 14
  Finland 14   Ireland 13
  Lithuania 13   Latvia 9
  Slovenia 7   Estonia 6
  Cyprus 6   Luxembourg 6
  Malta 5 Total[nb 9] 732 / 785

Secretariat edit

See also: Secretariat of the European Parliament
Office Post Name Source
Office of the Secretary-General Secretary-General of the European Parliament Julian Priestley (to 2007)
Harald Rømer (2007 to 2009)
Klaus Welle (since 2009)		 [15]
Legal Service Jurisconsult of the European Parliament Christian Pennera [16]
Directorate-General for the Presidency Director-General David Harley [17]
Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union Director-General Riccardo Ribera d'Alcala [18]
Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union Director-General Dietmar Nickel [19]
Directorate-General for Communication Director-General Francesca R. Ratti [20]
Directorate-General for Personnel Director-General Barry Wilson [21]
Directorate-General for Infrastructure and Logistics Director-General Constantin Stratigakis [22]
Directorate-General for Translation Director-General Juana Lahousse-Juárez [23]
Directorate-General for Interpretation and Conferences Director-General Olga Cosmidou [24]
Directorate-General for Finance Director-General Roger Vanhaeren [25]

See also edit

Elections edit

Further information: European Parliament election, 2004
Further information: European Parliament election, 2007

Membership lists edit

Further information: Members of the European Parliament 2004–2009

Notes edit

  1. ^ The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Nice and all preceding amending treaties.
  2. ^ Created 15 January 2007, disbanded 14 November 2007
  3. ^ Independents, not a group
  4. ^ Tuesday 20 July 2004: first day of the constitutive session of the Sixth European Parliament. By Friday 23 July 2004, the composition had changed slightly.
  5. ^ Composition of 15 January 2007 following the creation of ITS
  6. ^ Following Bulgarian and Romanian elections
  7. ^ Before 2009 election
  8. ^ Four Lega Nord MEPs arrived on 20 July 2004, sat with the Non-Inscrits for one day, then sat with IND/DEM on 21 July 2004, bringing the number of IND/DEM MEPs up to 37. Consequently, "37" is sometimes given as the number of IND/DEM MEPs on 20 July 2004.
  9. ^ a b c Bulgaria and Romania joined on 1 January 2007. Prior to 2007 there were 732 seats, following enlargement the Romanian and Bulgarian seats were added bringing it to 785.

References edit

  1. ^ European Parliament Minutes (Proceedings of the Sitting) on the European Parliament website
  2. ^ European Parliament Press Release on election
  3. ^ "Debates Wednesday, 21 July 2004 – Strasbourg > Election of Quaestors" from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/
  4. ^ 20040720 on the European Parliament website
  5. ^ "EU's surprise far-right coalition", BBC, 15 January 2009
  6. ^ EPP-ED Overview 2008-02-10

External links edit

  • 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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The sixth European Parliament was the sixth five year term of the elected European Parliament It began on Tuesday 20 July 2004 in Strasbourg 1 following the 2004 elections and ended after the 2009 elections 6th European Parliament20 July 2004 7 May 2009President 1st Half Josep BorrellPresident 2nd Half Hans Gert PoetteringCommissionBarrosoPolitical groupsEPP ED PES ALDE Greens EFA EUL NGL ID UEN ITS NIMEPs732 2004 2006 785 2007 2009 ElectionsJune 2004 Union May 2007 Bulgaria November 2007 Romania Nice nb 1 Fifth Seventh 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 7 Leadership 7 1 Presidents 7 2 Vice Presidents 7 3 Quaestors 7 4 Chairs of the political groups 8 Membership 9 Secretariat 10 See also 10 1 Elections 10 2 Membership lists 11 Notes 12 References 13 External linksMajor events edit10 13 June 2004 Elections to the Sixth Parliament 20 July 2004 First meeting constitutive session of the Sixth Parliament Giovanni Berlinguer presides as oldest member Josep Borrell is elected as President of the European Parliament 22 July 2004 Parliament approves Jose Manuel Barroso as President of the European Commission 27 September to 11 October 2004 Parliamentary hearings for the European Commissioners Parliament airs objections to Ingrida Udre Laszlo Kovacs Neelie Kroes Mariann Fischer Boel and Rocco Buttiglione Buttiglione is replaced by Franco Frattini Ingrida Udre replaced by Andris Piebalgs and Laszlo Kovacs reshuffled 18 November 2004 The Barroso Commission is approved by Parliament 22 November 2004 Barroso Commission takes office 12 December 2006 Parliament approves Meglena Kuneva and Leonard Orban as new European Commissioners for Romania and Bulgaria 1 January 2007 Accession of Romania and Bulgaria their observers in Parliament become full MEPs 15 January 2007 Hans Gert Pottering is elected President of the European Parliament 20 May 2007 Election of Bulgarian MEPs 25 November 2007 Election of Romanian MEPs 20 February 2008 Parliament approves the Lisbon Treaty Activity edit2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 SourceReports 73 415 481 519 515 268 1 Resolutions and positions 80 440 483 494 514 215 2 Parliamentary questions 2525 6310 7032 7765 8266 3373 3 Written declarations 27 82 91 115 106 52 4 Major resolutions and positions editResolution position number Procedure number NotesP6 TA 2006 0552 COD 2003 0256 Amended and approved Regulation EC No 1907 2006 the REACH regulationP6 TA 2007 0032 INI 2006 2200 European Parliament resolution on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transportation and illegal detention of prisonersP6 TA 2006 0490 COD 2004 0001 Amended and approved Directive 2006 123 EC the Bolkestein directiveP6 TA 2007 0401 COD 2004 0047 Amended and approved Directive 2007 58 EC the rail competition directiveP6 TA 2005 0275 COD 2002 0047 Rejected the proposed directive on the patentability of computer implemented inventionsP6 TA 2007 0199 COD 2006 0133 Amended and approved Regulation EC No 717 2007 the mobile phone roaming regulationP6 TA 2008 0342 COD 2006 0130 Amended and approved Regulation EC No 1008 2008 the air pricing clarity regulationP6 TA 2008 0293 COD 2005 0167 Amended and approved Directive 2008 115 EC the illegal immigration directiveP6 TA 2005 0132 INI 2004 2172 European Parliament resolution on the Common Foreign and Security PolicyCommittees editFurther information Committees of the European Parliament Summary edit Type Number Sources NotesStanding committee 20 2 subcommittees 5 Temporary committee 3 6 See below for listCommittee of enquiry 1 7 See below for listTemporary committees edit Code Committee Report SourcesCLIM Temporary Committee on Climate Change A6 2008 0495 8 TDIP Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countriesby the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners A6 2007 0020 9 FINP Temporary Committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007 2013 A6 2005 0153 10 Committees of enquiry edit Code Committee Report SourcesEQUI Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society A6 2007 0203 11 Delegations editSee also European Parliament Delegations Type Number SourcesEurope delegations 10 12 Non Europe delegations 24 13 Ad hoc delegations 1 14 Political groups editFurther information Political groups of the European Parliament See membership below for details of sizeGroup name AcronymEuropean People s Party European Democrats EPP EDParty of European Socialists PESAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ALDEGreens European Free Alliance G EFAEuropean United Left Nordic Green Left EUL NGLIndependence Democracy IND DEMUnion for a Europe of Nations UENIdentity Tradition Sovereignty nb 2 ITSNon Inscrits nb 3 NILeadership editPresidents edit Further information President of the European Parliament Term President or candidate Group State Votes20 July 2004 14 January 2007 Josep Borrell PES nbsp Spain 388Bronislaw Geremek ALDE nbsp Poland 208Francis Wurtz EUL NGL nbsp France 5115 January 2007 14 July 2009 2 Hans Gert Pottering EPP ED nbsp Germany 450Monica Frassoni G EFA nbsp Italy 145Francis Wurtz EUL NGL nbsp France 48Jens Peter Bonde IND DEM nbsp Denmark 46Vice Presidents edit Further information Vice President of the European Parliament Group 2004 2006 2007 2009EPP ED Alejo Vidal Quadras RocaAntonios TrakatellisEdward McMillan ScottIngo FriedrichMario MauroJacek Saryusz WolskiMiroslav Ouzky Rodi Kratsa TsagaropoulouAlejo Vidal QuadrasEdward McMillan ScottMario MauroPES Dagmar Roth BehrendtAntonio CostaPierre Moscovici Miguel Angel Martinez MartinezMechtild RothePierre MoscoviciManuel Antonio Dos SantosMarek SiwiecALDE Luigi CocilovoJanusz Onyszkiewicz Luigi CocilovoDiana WallisG EFA Gerard Onesta Gerard OnestaEUL NGL Sylvia Yvonne Kaufmann Luisa MorgantiniIND DEM n a n aUEN n a Adam BielanITS n a n aQuaestors edit Further information Quaestor European Parliament Group 2004 2006 3 2007 2009EPP ED James NicholsonGodelieve Quisthoudt RowohlAstrid Lulling James NicholsonAstrid LullingIngo FriedrichPES Genowefa GrabowskaMia De Vits Mia De VitsSzabolcs FazakasALDE n a Jan MulderChairs of the political groups edit Further information Political groups of the European Parliament Group ChairsEPP ED Hans Gert Pottering until 2007 Joseph Daul from 2007 PES Martin SchulzALDE Graham WatsonG EFA Monica FrassoniDaniel Cohn BenditEUL NGL Alonso Jose PuertaFrancis WurtzIND DEM Jens Peter Bonde until 2008 Kathy Sinnott 2008 Hanne Dahl from 2008 Nigel Farage full term UEN Brian Crowley until 2009 Cristiana MuscardiniITS Bruno Gollnisch 2007 Membership editFurther information Member of the European Parliament See List of members of the European Parliament 2004 2009 for the full list GroupsGroup Seats2004 nb 4 4 2007 nb 5 5 2007 nb 6 6 2009 nb 7 EPP ED 268 277 288 288PES 200 218 215 217ALDE 88 106 101 104G EFA 42 42 43 43EUL NGL 41 40 41 41IND DEM 33 nb 8 23 24 22UEN 27 44 44 40ITS n a 20 n a n aNI 33 14 29 30ApportionmentState Seats State Seats nbsp Germany 99 nbsp France 78 nbsp United Kingdom 78 nbsp Italy 78 nbsp Spain 54 nbsp Poland 54 nbsp Romania nb 9 35 nbsp Netherlands 27 nbsp Greece 24 nbsp Portugal 24 nbsp Belgium 24 nbsp Czech Republic 24 nbsp Hungary 24 nbsp Sweden 19 nbsp Austria 18 nbsp Bulgaria nb 9 18 nbsp Denmark 14 nbsp Slovakia 14 nbsp Finland 14 nbsp Ireland 13 nbsp Lithuania 13 nbsp Latvia 9 nbsp Slovenia 7 nbsp Estonia 6 nbsp Cyprus 6 nbsp Luxembourg 6 nbsp Malta 5 Total nb 9 732 785Secretariat editSee also Secretariat of the European Parliament Office Post Name SourceOffice of the Secretary General Secretary General of the European Parliament Julian Priestley to 2007 Harald Romer 2007 to 2009 Klaus Welle since 2009 15 Legal Service Jurisconsult of the European Parliament Christian Pennera 16 Directorate General for the Presidency Director General David Harley 17 Directorate General for Internal Policies of the Union Director General Riccardo Ribera d Alcala 18 Directorate General for External Policies of the Union Director General Dietmar Nickel 19 Directorate General for Communication Director General Francesca R Ratti 20 Directorate General for Personnel Director General Barry Wilson 21 Directorate General for Infrastructure and Logistics Director General Constantin Stratigakis 22 Directorate General for Translation Director General Juana Lahousse Juarez 23 Directorate General for Interpretation and Conferences Director General Olga Cosmidou 24 Directorate General for Finance Director General Roger Vanhaeren 25 See also editElections edit Further information European Parliament election 2004 Further information European Parliament election 2007 Membership lists edit Further information Members of the European Parliament 2004 2009Notes edit The Treaties of Rome and Treaty of Maastricht as amended by the Treaty of Nice and all preceding amending treaties Created 15 January 2007 disbanded 14 November 2007 Independents not a group Tuesday 20 July 2004 first day of the constitutive session of the Sixth European Parliament By Friday 23 July 2004 the composition had changed slightly Composition of 15 January 2007 following the creation of ITS Following Bulgarian and Romanian elections Before 2009 election Four Lega Nord MEPs arrived on 20 July 2004 sat with the Non Inscrits for one day then sat with IND DEM on 21 July 2004 bringing the number of IND DEM MEPs up to 37 Consequently 37 is sometimes given as the number of IND DEM MEPs on 20 July 2004 a b c Bulgaria and Romania joined on 1 January 2007 Prior to 2007 there were 732 seats following enlargement the Romanian and Bulgarian seats were added bringing it to 785 References edit European Parliament Minutes Proceedings of the Sitting on the European Parliament website European Parliament Press Release on election Debates Wednesday 21 July 2004 Strasbourg gt Election of Quaestors from http www europarl europa eu 20040720 on the European Parliament website EU s surprise far right coalition BBC 15 January 2009 EPP ED Overview 2008 02 10External links editEuropean Parliament Explanation of codecision European Parliament positions European Parliament and European Council common positions European Parliament Conciliation Committee Joint texts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sixth European Parliament amp oldid 1148382333, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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