MIL-OSI Europe: Latest news – Confirmation hearings – Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Source: European Parliament

The designated candidates of the von der Leyen Commission will be heard by the relevant EP committees from 4 to 12 November. Candidates will give an opening speech and answer members’ questions.

ENVI is responsible, alone or jointly, for the hearings of:

Executive Vice-Presidents-designate:

  • Teresa Ribera (ES): Clean, Just and Competitive Transition (12.11)
  • Stéphane Séjourné (FR): Prosperity and Industrial Strategy (12.11)

Commissioners-designate:

  • Jessika Roswall (SE): Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy (5.11)
  • Olivér Várhelyi (HU): Health and Animal Welfare (6.11)
  • Hadja Lahbib (BE): Preparedness, Crisis Management, Equality (6.11)
  • Wopke Hoekstra (NL): Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth (7.11)

ENVI is invited to the hearings of:

  • Apostolos Tzitzikostas (EL): Sustainable Transport and Tourism (4.11)
  • Christophe Hansen (LUX): Agriculture and Food (4.11)
  • Dan Jørgensen (DK): Energy and Housing (5.11)
  • Costas Kadis (CY): Fisheries and Oceans (6.11)

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