European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

The Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for environmental and climate policy, pollution prevention, chemicals, waste and the circular economy, biodiversity, civil protection and food safety. Public health responsibilities previously exercised by ENVI were transferred to the new Committee on Public Health during the tenth parliamentary term.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for environmental policy and environmental-protection measures, including climate change, air, soil and water pollution, waste management and recycling, dangerous substances, noise, biodiversity and the restoration of environmental damage.

Its remit includes:

climate policy and implementation of the European Green Deal; air, soil and water quality and measures against pollution; waste prevention, waste management, recycling and the circular economy; chemicals, pesticides and other dangerous substances; nature restoration, biodiversity and protection of natural resources; sustainable development and international environmental agreements; civil protection and responses to environmental disasters; the European Environment Agency and the European Chemicals Agency; the safety and labelling of foodstuffs and food-production systems; and the European Food Safety Authority.

The committee scrutinises the implementation of environmental legislation and follows major policy initiatives concerning climate neutrality, industrial decarbonisation, air and water quality, biodiversity, chemicals, pesticides and food safety. Parliament's official committee page describes ENVI as one of its two largest committees, with 90 members.

Evolution

The committee's importance increased substantially as the European Parliament acquired greater legislative powers in environmental and health policy. The extension of the ordinary legislative procedure to these areas made ENVI one of Parliament's principal legislative committees. Environmental legislation, climate policy and food-safety regulation have consequently formed a major part of its workload.

Until 2025, the committee was formally named the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Following the creation of a separate standing Committee on Public Health, its current name and remit place greater emphasis on climate and environmental legislation while retaining responsibility for food safety.

Chairs

The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 1979.

Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Ken Collins Socialist Group United Kingdom 1979 1984 Beate Weber Socialist Group Germany 1984 1989 Ken Collins Socialist Group United Kingdom 1989 1999 Caroline Jackson EPP–ED United Kingdom 1999 2004 Karl-Heinz Florenz EPP–ED Germany 2004 2007 Miroslav Ouzký UEN Czechia 2007 2009 Jo Leinen S&D Germany 2009 2012 Matthias Groote S&D Germany 2012 2014 Giovanni La Via EPP Italy 2014 2019 Pascal Canfin Renew Europe France 2019 2024 Antonio Decaro S&D Italy 2024 2026 Pierfrancesco Maran S&D Italy 2026 Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee currently consists of 90 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 Esther Herranz García, Spain, Vice-Chair András Tivadar Kulja, Hungary, Vice-Chair Pascal Arimont, Belgium Bartosz Arłukowicz, Poland Alexander Bernhuber, Austria Ioan-Rareș Bogdan, Romania Zala Tomašič, Slovenia Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Poland Niels Flemming Hansen, Denmark Radan Kanev, Bulgaria Stefan Köhler, Germany Ewa Kopacz, Poland Peter Liese, Germany Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Poland Dolors Montserrat, Spain Letizia Moratti, Italy Jessica Polfjärd, Sweden Massimiliano Salini, Italy Oliver Schenk, Germany Susana Solís Pérez, Spain Ingeborg ter Laak, Netherlands Flavio Tosi, Italy Dimitris Tsiodras, Greece Andrea Wechsler, Germany Pierfrancesco Maran, Italy, Chair Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuania Sakis Arnaoutoglou, Greece Thomas Bajada, Malta Delara Burkhardt, Germany Mohammed Chahim, Netherlands Christophe Clergeau, France Annalisa Corrado, Italy Heléne Fritzon, Sweden Romana Jerković, Croatia Javi López, Spain César Luena, Spain Alessandra Moretti, Italy Günther Sidl, Austria Marta Temido, Portugal Kristian Vigenin, Bulgaria Tiemo Wölken, Germany Pietro Fiocchi, Italy, Vice-Chair Sergio Berlato, Italy Emmanouil Fragkos, Greece Jacek Ozdoba, Poland Michele Picaro, Italy Nicola Procaccini, Italy Beatrice Timgren, Sweden Aurelijus Veryga, Lithuania Alexandr Vondra, Czechia Anna Zalewska, Poland Grégory Allione, France Stine Bosse, Denmark Pascal Canfin, France Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Netherlands Andreas Glück, Germany Martin Hojsík, Slovakia Katri Kulmuni, Finland Ana Vasconcelos, Portugal Emma Wiesner, Sweden Michal Wiezik, Slovakia Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Mathilde Androuët, France Barbara Bonte, Belgium Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, France Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Spain Viktória Ferenc, Hungary Anne-Sophie Frigout, France Roman Haider, Austria Ondřej Knotek, Czechia Jana Nagyová, Czechia Silvia Sardone, Italy Antonín Staněk, Czechia Pär Holmgren, Sweden Ignazio Marino, Italy Tilly Metz, Luxembourg Rasmus Nordqvist, Denmark Jutta Paulus, Germany Majdouline Sbaï, France Lena Schilling, Austria Anja Hazekamp, Netherlands, Vice-Chair Lynn Boylan, Ireland Emma Fourreau, France Martin Günther, Germany Catarina Martins, Portugal Jonas Sjöstedt, Sweden Anja Arndt, Germany Ivan David, Czechia Marc Jongen, Germany Non-Inscrits Ondřej Dostál, Czechia Fernand Kartheiser, Luxembourg

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 François-Xavier Bellamy, France Hildegard Bentele, Germany Daniel Buda, Romania Carmen Crespo Díaz, Spain Dóra Dávid, Hungary Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Spain Jens Gieseke, Germany Sunčana Glavak, Croatia Michalis Hatzipantelas, Cyprus Sérgio Humberto, Portugal Adam Jarubas, Poland Seán Kelly, Ireland Martine Kemp, Luxembourg Norbert Lins, Germany Danuše Nerudová, Czechia Lídia Pereira, Portugal Sirpa Pietikäinen, Finland Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Romania Dennis Radtke, Germany Manuela Ripa, Germany Tomislav Sokol, Croatia Liesbet Sommen, Belgium Biljana Borzan, Croatia Estelle Ceulemans, Belgium Nikolas Farantouris, Greece André Franqueira Rodrigues, Portugal Nicolás González Casares, Spain Pierre Jouvet, France Dan Nica, Romania Maria Noichl, Germany Leire Pajín, Spain Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, France Matteo Ricci, Italy Chloé Ridel, France Elena Sancho Murillo, Spain Christel Schaldemose, Denmark Irene Tinagli, Italy Bruno Tobback, Belgium Raffaele Topo, Italy Galato Alexandraki, Greece Adrian-George Axinia, Romania Stefano Cavedagna, Italy Paolo Inselvini, Italy Nora Junco García, Spain Antonella Sberna, Italy Sander Smit, Netherlands Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Romania Laurence Trochu, France Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Poland Jeannette Baljeu, Netherlands Olivier Chastel, Belgium Sigrid Friis, Denmark Karin Karlsbro, Sweden Billy Kelleher, Ireland Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Bulgaria Christine Singer, Germany Anna Stürgkh, Austria Vlad Voiculescu, Romania Yvan Verougstraete, Belgium Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Mireia Borrás Pabón, Spain Susanna Ceccardi, Italy Valérie Deloge, France Ton Diepeveen, Netherlands Gerald Hauser, Austria György Hölvényi, Hungary Aldo Patriciello, Italy Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Spain Matthieu Valet, France Michael Bloss, Germany Martin Häusling, Germany Ufuk Kâhya, Netherlands Sara Matthieu, Belgium Maria Ohisalo, Finland Kai Tegethoff, Germany Marie Toussaint, France Li Andersson, Finland Per Clausen, Denmark Sebastian Everding, Germany Giorgos Georgiou, Cyprus Valentina Palmisano, Italy Sarah Knafo, France Volker Schnurrbusch, Germany Non-Inscrits Kateřina Konečná, Czechia Friedrich Pürner, Germany

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, impact assessments, briefings and other analyses concerning climate policy, environmental legislation, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, the circular economy and food safety.

Publications prepared for the committee are made available through its online database of supporting analyses and through the European Parliament's Think Tank.

European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

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