The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for matters relating to the Common Agricultural Policy, rural development, agricultural markets, animal health and welfare, plant health, agricultural production, forestry and agroforestry.
Responsibilities
The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development is responsible for matters relating to the Common Agricultural Policy and its implementation and development. Its remit also includes rural development, agricultural markets, the economic position of farmers, agricultural production and the quality of agricultural products.
The committee also deals with legislation and policy concerning:
animal health, animal husbandry and animal welfare; plant health and plant-protection matters; animal feed, where the measures concerned are not primarily intended to protect human health; forestry and agroforestry; the supply of agricultural inputs and raw materials; and the Community Plant Variety Office.
A central part of the committee's work is examining legislative proposals submitted by the European Commission. In areas governed by the ordinary legislative procedure, the committee prepares Parliament's position for negotiation with the Council of the European Union and for subsequent consideration in plenary.
Members
10th Parliament, 2024–2029
The committee consists of 49 full members. Its current composition is shown below, with the chair and vice-chairs indicated in italics.
European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Daniel Buda, Romania, Vice-Chair Norbert Lins, Germany, Vice-Chair Krzysztof Hetman, Poland, Vice-Chair Carmen Crespo Díaz, Spain Salvatore De Meo, Italy Paulo do Nascimento Cabral, Portugal Herbert Dorfmann, Italy Gabriella Gerzsenyi, Hungary Céline Imart, France Stefan Köhler, Germany Willemien Koning, Netherlands Pekka Toveri, Finland Maria Walsh, Ireland Eric Sargiacomo, France, Vice-Chair Stefano Bonaccini, Italy Gheorghe Cârciu, Romania André Franqueira Rodrigues, Portugal Maria Grapini, Romania Camilla Laureti, Italy Cristina Maestre, Spain Dario Nardella, Italy Maria Noichl, Germany Veronika Vrecionová, Czechia, Chair Waldemar Buda, Poland Carlo Fidanza, Italy Bert-Jan Ruissen, Netherlands Jessika van Leeuwen, Netherlands Asger Christensen, Denmark Barry Cowen, Ireland Jérémy Decerle, France Elsi Katainen, Finland Ciaran Mullooly, Ireland Christine Singer, Germany Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Mireia Borrás Pabón, Spain Valérie Deloge, France Csaba Dömötör, Hungary Tomáš Kubín, Czechia Gilles Pennelle, France Raffaele Stancanelli, Italy Cristina Guarda, Italy Martin Häusling, Germany Anna Strolenberg, Netherlands Thomas Waitz, Austria Sebastian Everding, Germany Luke Ming Flanagan, Ireland Arash Saeidi, France Arno Bausemer, Germany Ivan David, Czechia Non-Inscrits Katarína Roth Neveďalová, Slovakia
Substitute members
The committee's substitute members are listed below.
European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Renew Europe Peter Agius, Malta Wouter Beke, Belgium Alexander Bernhuber, Austria Lena Düpont, Germany Esther Herranz García, Spain Emmanouil Kefalogiannis, Greece Ilia Lazarov, Bulgaria Gabriel Mato, Spain Alexandra Mehnert, Germany Dan-Ștefan Motreanu, Romania Jessica Polfjärd, Sweden Marion Walsmann, Germany Marta Wcisło, Poland Sakis Arnaoutoglou, Greece Annalisa Corrado, Italy Claire Fita, France Heléne Fritzon, Sweden Iratxe García Pérez, Spain Elena Sancho Murillo, Spain Marta Temido, Portugal Marko Vešligaj, Croatia Emmanouil Fragkos, Greece Nicola Procaccini, Italy Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Romania Georgiana Teodorescu, Romania Francesco Ventola, Italy Benoît Cassart, Belgium Charles Goerens, Luxembourg Emma Wiesner, Sweden Michal Wiezik, Slovakia Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Barbara Bonte, Belgium Marie Dauchy, France Ton Diepeveen, Netherlands Gerald Hauser, Austria Vilis Krištopans, Latvia Isabella Tovaglieri, Italy David Cormand, France Pär Holmgren, Sweden Tilly Metz, Luxembourg Nicolae Ștefănuță, Romania Giuseppe Antoci, Italy Konstantinos Arvanitis, Greece Anja Hazekamp, Netherlands Zsuzsanna Borvendég, Hungary Stanislav Stoyanov, Bulgaria Non-Inscrits Luis-Vicențiu Lazarus, Romania
8th Parliament, 2014–2019
The following table records the committee's membership during the eighth parliamentary term.
European People's Party Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats European Conservatives and Reformists Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Czesław Siekierski, Poland, Chair Daniel Buda, Romania Michel Dantin, France Albert Dess, Germany Herbert Dorfmann, Italy Norbert Erdős, Hungary Esther Herranz García, Spain Peter Jahr, Germany Jarosław Kalinowski, Poland Elisabeth Köstinger, Austria Mairead McGuinness, Ireland Nuno Melo, Portugal Marijana Petir, Croatia Éric Andrieu, France, Vice-Chair Clara Aguilera García, Spain, Vice-Chair Vasilica Dăncilă, Romania, Vice-Chair Paul Brannen, United Kingdom Nicola Caputo, Italy Paolo De Castro, Italy Maria Noichl, Germany Constantin Rebega, Romania Marc Tarabella, Belgium Janusz Wojciechowski, Poland, Vice-Chair Richard Ashworth, United Kingdom Beata Gosiewska, Poland Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Poland Jim Nicholson, United Kingdom Jan Huitema, Netherlands Ulrike Müller, Germany Marit Paulsen, Sweden Jens Rohde, Denmark European United Left–Nordic Green Left The Greens–European Free Alliance Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Non-Inscrits Matt Carthy, Ireland Luke Ming Flanagan, Ireland Anja Hazekamp, Netherlands Lidia Senra, Spain José Bové, France Martin Häusling, Germany Bronis Ropė, Lithuania Jordi Sebastià, Spain Stuart Agnew, United Kingdom Giulia Moi, Italy Marco Zullo, Italy Diane Dodds, United Kingdom Édouard Ferrand, France Philippe Loiseau, France
Chairs
The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 2014.
Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Czesław Siekierski EPP Poland 7 July 2014 July 2019 Norbert Lins EPP Germany July 2019 July 2024 Veronika Vrecionová ECR Czechia July 2024 Incumbent
Research support
The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, in-depth analyses, briefings and impact assessments to assist parliamentary committees in their legislative and scrutiny work.
Research relating specifically to agriculture and rural development is principally prepared or commissioned by the Parliament's Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies and by the European Parliamentary Research Service. Its work covers subjects such as the Common Agricultural Policy, farm incomes, agricultural markets, rural development, food systems, environmental policy and the implementation of European Union legislation.
The resulting publications are made available through the committee's online database of supporting analyses and through the European Parliament's Think Tank. The database is updated as new studies and briefings are published.
See also Agriculture and Fisheries Council European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
References
External links
Official website Supporting analyses European Parliament Think Tank