On Tuesday 1 October, the European Parliament’s Conference of Committee Chairs (CCC) recommended that the hearings of the twenty-six European Commissioners-designate be held from Monday 4 to Tuesday 12 November, with the final decision resting with the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (CoP), which will meet on Wednesday 2 October.
The CCC was consulted on two options - its preferred option and a second option proposing that the hearings be held over a shorter period, from Monday 14 to Friday 18 October. The EPP Group, which wants to move this process forward quickly in the name of institutional stability, would prefer the second option.
If the hearings take place in November, the CoP will decide on the running order of the European Commissioners-designate on Thursday 10 October. In the meantime, the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs will publish its assessment of the declarations of financial interests of the Commissioners-designate by Friday 18 October at the latest. They will have until Tuesday 22 October to reply to written questions sent to them by 10 October at the latest.
Once the hearings have taken place and any adjustments have been made to the portfolios and/or the internal organisation of the College, MEPs will be able to approve the composition and organisation of the ‘von der Leyen II’ Committee at the European Parliament plenary session starting on Monday 25 November, with a view to it taking up its duties at the beginning of December.
See the two options envisaged by the CCC: hearings of the Commissioners-designate in October: https://aeur.eu/f/dny ; or in November: https://aeur.eu/f/dnx (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion with Anne Damiani)