site.btaUPDATED Four Bulgarian MEPs Join Leadership of Committees in European Parliament

Four Bulgarian MEPs join the leadership of the committees of the European Parliament. This is shown by the announcements of the institution following the formation of the new parliamentary committees.

MEP Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew Europe/MRF) was elected chairman of the EP committee on legal affairs. “It is an honour, this committee has an important role and legislative responsibilities on key issues,” Kyuchyuk was quoted as saying in the announcement. MEP Emil Radev (GERB-UDF/EPP) was elected fourth vice-chair of the same parliamentary committee.

MEP Nikola Minchev (Renew Europe/Continue the Change) was elected second vice-chair of the parliamentary committee on internal market and consumer protection. MEP Tsvetelina Penkova (BSP/Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats) was elected first vice-chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy.

Last week the EP voted by a large majority to appoint MEP Andrey Kovatchev as quaestor in the new session of the institution. Quaestors deal with administrative matters that directly affect MEPs themselves and have an advisory vote in the EP Bureau, made up of the president, his 14 deputies and the five quaestors.

Following is the full list of Bulgarian MEPs and the committees they have joined:

Taner KABILOV (Renew Europe Group/Movement for Rights and Freedoms): Member - Committee on Regional Development; Substitute - Committee on Transport and Tourism

Radan KANEV (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/ Democrats for Strong Bulgaria): Member - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Substitute - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Subcommittee on Public Health

Andrey KOVATCHEV (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria): Member - Parliament's Bureau, Responsibilities as Quaestor; Committee on Foreign Affairs;  Substitute - Committee on Budgetary Control

Ilhan KYUCHYUK (Renew Europe Group/Movement for Rights and Freedoms): Member - Committee on Legal Affairs; Substitute - Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Rada LAYKOVA (Europe of Sovereign Nations Group/Vazrazhdane): Member - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Substitute - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Ilia LAZAROV (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/Union of Democratic Forces): Member - Committee on International Trade; Substitute - Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Eva MAYDELL (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/GERB): Member - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Substitute - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Nikola MINCHEV (Renew Europe Group/Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria): Member - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Substitute - Committee on Culture and Education; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Andrey NOVAKOV (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/GERB): Member - Committee on Regional Development; Substitute - Committee on Transport and Tourism; Committee on Culture and Education

Tsvetelina PENKOVA (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament/Bulgarian Socialist Party): Member - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Substitute - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Committee on Regional Development

Hristo PETROV (Renew Europe Group/Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria): Member - Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Substitute - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs; Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Committee on Regional Development

Emil RADEV (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)/GERB): Member - Committee on Legal Affairs; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Committee on Petitions

Stanislav STOYANOV (Europe of Sovereign Nations Group/Vazrazhdane): Member - Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on Transport and Tourism; Substitute - Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection; Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Ivaylo VALCHEV (European Conservatives and Reformists Group/There Is Such a People): Member - Committee on Culture and Education; Committee on Petitions; Substitute - Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

Kristian VIGENIN (Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament/Bulgarian Socialist Party): Member - Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Substitute - Committee on Constitutional Affairs; Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Petar VOLGIN (Europe of Sovereign Nations Group/Vazrazhdane): Member - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs; Substitute - Committee on Foreign Affairs; Committee on Industry, Research and Energy; Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

Elena YONCHEVA (Renew Europe Group/Movement for Rights and Freedoms): Member - Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; Substitute - Committee on Development; Subcommittee on Human Rights.