European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is a committee of the European Parliament. Its areas of responsibility relate to industry, especially technology-intensive manufacturing, information technology, and telecommunications. It also coordinates European space policy and therefore has ties with the European Space Agency. It has oversight duties in relation to the Joint Research Centre and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, as well as similar projects. In the past, the ITRE committee also dealt with transport matters. However this policy field has been transferred over to a dedicated Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

The committee's current chair is Borys Budka.^[1]

Energy policy

One major area of activity for the committee is energy policy, safety, and efficiency. They monitor compliance with the Euratom Treaty around nuclear waste disposal. The Paris Agreement and, more recently, the launch of the European Green Deal have put climate change and the energy transition center-stage. Policies to support clean technologies such as renewable energy or hydrogen have been advanced through the committee.^[2]

In 2022, the committee will be in charge of negotiating the European Commission's proposal for on the directive on the energy performance of buildings and the energy efficiency directive.

Regulations

As of March 2014 ITRE committee is the lead charge for regulations dealing with "European single market for electronic communications". The proposals were put forward by Neelie Kroes. A collective of NGOs considered this regulation could damage net neutrality.^[3][4]

List of chairpersons

Name		Term	Political Party	Country
	Herbert Reul	2009–2012	European People's Party	Germany
	Amalia Sartori	2012–2014	European People's Party	Italy
	Jerzy Buzek	2014–2019	European People's Party	Poland
	Adina-Ioana Vălean	2019	European People's Party	Romania
	Cristian Bușoi	2019–2024	European People's Party
	Borys Budka	2024–	European People's Party	Poland

Committee Bureau

7th term

Chair

• Amalia Sartori (EPP; Italy): 2012–2014.

8th term

Chair

• Jerzy Buzek (EPP; Poland)

9th term

Elected on 10 July 2019.^[5]

Chair

• Adina-Ioana Vălean (EPP; Romania)

1st Vice-Chair

• Zdzisław Krasnodębski (ECR; Poland)

2nd Vice-Chair

• Morten Petersen (RE, Denmark)

3rd Vice-Chair

• Patrizia Toia (S&D, Italy)

4th Vice-Chair

• Lina Gálvez Muñoz (S&D, Spain)

References

1. "Members | Home | ITRE | Committees | European Parliament".
2. "Decarbonisation of the energy system | Hearings | Events | ITRE | Committees | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
3. "Save the internet". Various NGOs. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
4. "laying down measures concerning the European single market for electronic communications and to achieve a Connected Continent, and amending Directives 2002/20/EC, 2002/21/EC and 2002/22/EC and Regulations (EC) No 1211/2009 and (EU) No 531/2012". Euporean Parliament. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
5. "Parliament's committees elect chairs and vice-chairs". European Parliament. 10 July 2019.

External links

• Official Homepage