Brussels, 28/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - The president of the European Parliament and his fourteen vice presidents have distributed their responsibilities within the EP Bureau.
President Josep Borrell, will take over the following: - communication on the Constitution; - functioning of the EP after enlargement; -status for MEPs; - sexual equality (responsibility shared with Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann); - representation of EP at the EuroMed Assembly (with Antonio Trakatellis and Edward McMillan-Scott); - security.
Three vice-presidents (Vidal-Quadras Roca, Trakatellis and Roth Behrendt) will share the important legislative responsibility for conciliation with the Council. Edward McMillan-Scott and Pierre Moscovici, will represent the EP at COSAC (national parliaments). Mario Mauro and Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski will be in charge of parliamentary relations with "the new neighbours" of the EU, and Miroslav Ouzky will take over those on the accession candidate countries. Antonio Costa is in charge of multilateral inter-parliamentary relations (Council of Europe, notably), and Janusz Onyszkiewicz in charge of security and defence.
The other portfolios are shared out in the following way: - Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca: president of the Bureau's work group for information and communication policy; - Dagmar Roth-Behrendt and Ingo Friedrich: EP personnel policy; - Mario Mauro: STOA and research programmes; - Antonio Costa and Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann: organisation of questions timetable, - Luigi Cocilovo: EP budget; - Janusz Onyszkiewicz: information and telecommunications; - Gérard Onesta: building policy and use of infrastructures ; - Miroslav Ouzky: transparency and access to documents.