Committee on Security and Defence

SEDE · Standing committee

The Committee on Security and Defence (SEDE) has 43 full members.

43 members and 42 substitutes · lead committee in 18 procedures, opinion in 25 · 16 final votes in plenary

Membership

Chair
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Renew), since 27 Jan 2025
Vice-Chairs
Mihai Tudose (S&D), Christophe Gomart (EPP), Riho Terras (EPP), Michał Dworczyk (ECR)

Full members by political group (43)

Substitute members by political group (42)

Changes since July 2024

Since the first appointments on 19 Jul 2024: 41 new memberships, 15 ended (2 of them with the end of the mandate), 18 changes of role.

Until 19 Jan 2025 a subcommittee (“Subcommittee on Security and Defence”), since 20 Jan 2025 a standing committee (“Committee on Security and Defence”).

Not counted: memberships beginning or ending in the first two weeks after the first appointments (constituent phase). For the conversion, a change of role is counted only if a person’s role after the new election of Chair and Vice-Chairs differs from the role before. 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 (18)

All 18 in the list of procedures

Opinion (25)

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.

16 roll-call final votes since July 2024 in procedures with this committee as lead committee: 16 adopted, 0 rejected. By type of procedure: legislation 6, consent and consultation 2, other procedures 8.

The list of votes filtered by SEDE shows 11 of them. The voting data name no lead committee for objections and resolutions, and only one where several committees share the lead.

These 11 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.