Committee on Petitions
PETI · Standing committee
The Committee on Petitions (PETI) has 34 full members.
34 members and 27 substitutes · lead committee in 7 procedures, opinion in 7 · 4 final votes in plenary
Membership
- Chair
- Bogdan Rzońca (ECR), since 23 Jul 2024
- Vice-Chairs
- Cristina Guarda (Greens/EFA), Nils Ušakovs (S&D), Dolors Montserrat (EPP), Fredis Beleris (EPP)
Full members by political group (34)
- The Left (2): Damien Carême, Valentina Palmisano
- Greens/EFA (2): Ana Miranda Paz, Cristina Guarda (Vice-Chair)
- S&D (7): Georgia Tramacere, Iratxe García Pérez, Isilda Gomes, Murielle Laurent, Nils Ušakovs (Vice-Chair), Sandra Gómez López, Sandro Ruotolo
- Renew (3): Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Jana Toom, Michał Kobosko
- EPP (9): Alexander Bernhuber, Dariusz Joński, Dolors Montserrat (Vice-Chair), Elena Nevado del Campo, Emil Radev, Fredis Beleris (Vice-Chair), Gheorghe Falcă, Norbert Herhammer, Peter Agius
- ECR (5): Bogdan Rzońca (Chair), Diego Solier, Galato Alexandraki, Ivaylo Valchev, Paolo Inselvini
- PfE (3): Annamária Vicsek, Georg Mayer, Sebastian Kruis
- ESN (2): Marcin Sypniewski, Petras Gražulis
- Non-attached Members (1): Maria Zacharia
Substitute members by political group (27)
- The Left (2): Isabel Serra Sánchez, Nikos Pappas
- Greens/EFA (2): Gordan Bosanac, Vicent Marzà Ibáñez
- S&D (7): Alex Agius Saliba, Andi Cristea, Annalisa Corrado, Costas Mavrides, Hana Jalloul Muro, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus, Yannis Maniatis
- Renew (1): Eugen Tomac
- EPP (6): Dóra Dávid, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Nadine Morano, Paulo Cunha, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut, Stefan Köhler
- ECR (4): Adrian-George Axinia, Chiara Gemma, Kosma Złotowski, Waldemar Tomaszewski
- PfE (3): Fabrice Leggeri, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Virginie Joron
- ESN (1): Milan Mazurek
- Non-attached Members (1): Alvise Pérez
Changes since July 2024
Since the first appointments on 19 Jul 2024: 13 new memberships, 14 ended (2 of them with the end of the mandate), 9 changes of role.
- 17 Sep 2026: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew), changed from substitute to member
- 16 Sep 2026: Alvise Pérez (Non-attached), changed from member to substitute
- 15 Sep 2026: Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos (Non-attached), Left as member
- 15 Sep 2026: Fidias Panayiotou (Non-attached), Left as substitute
- 15 Sep 2026: Erik Kaliňák (Non-attached), Left as substitute
- 14 Sep 2026: Annamária Vicsek (PfE), Joined as member
- 14 Sep 2026: Georgia Tramacere (S&D), Joined as member
- 13 Sep 2026: Pál Szekeres (PfE), Left as member, end of mandate
- 15 Jul 2026: Waldemar Tomaszewski (ECR), Joined as substitute
- 6 Jul 2026: Norbert Herhammer (EPP), Joined as member
- 5 Jul 2026: Alexandra Mehnert (EPP), Left as member
- 23 Jun 2026: Milan Mazurek (ESN), Joined as substitute
- 16 Jun 2026: Pina Picierno (S&D), Left as member
- 11 Mar 2026: Vicent Marzà Ibáñez (Greens/EFA), Joined as substitute
- 24 Nov 2025: Alvise Pérez (Non-attached), Joined as member
- 5 Oct 2025: Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal (PfE), Joined as substitute
- 4 Oct 2025: Mireia Borrás Pabón (PfE), Left as substitute
- 8 Sep 2025: Chiara Gemma (ECR), changed from member to substitute
- 8 Sep 2025: Diego Solier (ECR), Joined as member
- 8 Sep 2025: Elena Nevado del Campo (EPP), changed from substitute to member
- 7 Sep 2025: Alma Ezcurra Almansa (EPP), Left as member
- 25 Aug 2025: Cristian Terheş (ECR), Left as substitute
- 8 Jul 2025: Marcin Sypniewski (ESN), changed from substitute to member
- 20 May 2025: Anders Vistisen (PfE), Left as member
- 19 May 2025: Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE), Left as substitute
- 7 May 2025: Volker Schnurrbusch (Non-attached), Left as member
- 5 May 2025: Volker Schnurrbusch (Non-attached), Joined as member
- 4 May 2025: Taner Kabilov (Non-attached), Left as member
- 12 Feb 2025: Chiara Gemma (ECR), Joined as member
- 23 Jan 2025: Eugen Tomac (Renew), changed from member to substitute
- 23 Jan 2025: Taner Kabilov (Non-attached), Joined as member
- 23 Jan 2025: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew), changed from member to substitute
- 22 Jan 2025: Petras Gražulis (ESN), changed from substitute to member
- 22 Jan 2025: Marcin Sypniewski (ESN), changed from member to substitute
- 18 Dec 2024: Andi Cristea (S&D), Joined as substitute
- 30 Nov 2024: Roxana Mînzatu (S&D), Left as substitute, end of mandate
Not counted: memberships beginning or ending in the first two weeks after the first appointments (constituent phase). Political group: on the day of the change.
Procedures
Procedures with a vote or date in plenary since July 2024. Lead: the committee drafts the report; with joint lead committees, the procedure appears for each of them. Opinion: the committee gives an opinion. Date: latest step.
Lead (7)
- Protection of EU companies, jobs and products against unfair competition from non-EU countries: 2025/2955(RSP) · Resolution · Rapporteur: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · 29 Apr 2026
- Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024: 2025/2138(INI) · Own-initiative · Rapporteur: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · final vote: rejected · 12 Mar 2026
- Organisational mismanagement of the European personnel selection office (EPSO) competitions: 2025/2880(RSP) · Resolution · Rapporteur: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · 27 Nov 2025
- Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024: 2025/2114(INI) · Own-initiative · Rapporteur: Fredis Beleris (EPP) · final vote: adopted · 9 Oct 2025
- Preserving the memory of the victims of the post war communist period in Slovenia: 2025/2575(RSP) · Resolution · Rapporteur: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · 8 Jul 2025
- Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023: 2025/2027(INI) · Own-initiative · Rapporteur: Gheorghe Falcă (EPP) · final vote: adopted · 22 May 2025
- Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023: 2024/2056(INI) · Own-initiative · Rapporteur: Alex Agius Saliba (S&D) · final vote: adopted · 17 Dec 2024
All 7 in the list of procedures
Opinion (7)
- General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 – all sections: 2026/0196(BUD) · Budget · Opinion: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · lead: BUDE, BUDG · 21 Oct 2026
- Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025: 2025/2016(INI) · Own-initiative · Opinion: Sandra Gómez López (S&D) · lead: JURI · 29 Apr 2026
- Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III: 2025/2246(BUI) · Budget · lead: BUDG · 28 Apr 2026
- 2026 budgetary procedure: joint text: 2025/0210(BUD) · Budget · Opinion: Bogdan Rzońca (ECR) · lead: BUDE, BUDG · Official Journal 26 Feb 2026 · 26 Feb 2026
- EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024: 2025/2057(INI) · Own-initiative · Opinion: Pál Szekeres (PfE) · lead: EMPL · 27 Nov 2025
- Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section III: 2024/2110(BUI) · Budget · lead: BUDG · 2 Apr 2025
- 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text: 2024/0176(BUD) · Budget · lead: BUDE, BUDG · Official Journal 27 Feb 2025 · 27 Feb 2025
Votes in plenary
Committee votes are not part of Parliament’s open data (mostly published as PDF only). Shown here are membership, procedures and the final plenary votes in the procedures led by the committee.
4 roll-call final votes since July 2024 in procedures with this committee as lead committee: 3 adopted, 1 rejected. By type of procedure: other procedures 4.
- Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024: 12 Mar 2026 · A10-0015/2026 · Report · Rejected: 233 for, 250 against, 76 abstentions
- Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024: 9 Oct 2025 · A10-0170/2025 · Report · Adopted: 535 for, 24 against, 55 abstentions
- Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023: 22 May 2025 · A10-0063/2025 · Report · Adopted: 260 for, 194 against, 110 abstentions
- Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2023: 17 Dec 2024 · A10-0016/2024 · Report · Adopted: 598 for, 17 against, 37 abstentions
All of them are also in the list of votes filtered by PETI.
These 4 votes in the statistics, with the political groups’ majorities
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (bodies, MEPs’ memberships, procedures, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Committee names from the European Parliament’s data. Committee page at the European Parliament Body record in the Open Data Portal (JSON-LD)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (bodies, MEPs’ memberships, procedures, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Committee names from the European Parliament’s data.