European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for legislation and parliamentary oversight concerning fundamental rights, the rule of law, data protection, asylum and migration, external borders, police and judicial cooperation, and internal security within the European Union.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for the protection within the European Union of citizens' rights, human rights and fundamental rights, including those set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Its work also covers measures to combat discrimination other than discrimination based on sex or discrimination occurring in the workplace and labour market.

Its remit includes:

legislation concerning the protection of personal data and privacy; the establishment and development of an area of freedom, security and justice; asylum, migration and the integrated management of the European Union's external borders; judicial cooperation in criminal matters; police and customs cooperation, including measures against organised crime, terrorism and other threats to public security; the work of agencies and bodies operating in the area of freedom, security and justice, including Europol, Eurojust, Frontex, the European Union Agency for Asylum, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, eu-LISA, CEPOL and the European Union Drugs Agency; and determining whether there is a clear risk of a serious breach by a member state of the values on which the European Union is founded.

The committee also scrutinises policies relating to the rule of law and fundamental rights and maintains working groups on subjects including Schengen and borders, the Common European Asylum System and the implementation of the Artificial Intelligence Act.

Chairs

The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 2004.

Name Political group Member state Took office Left office Jean-Louis Bourlanges ALDE France 2004 2009 Juan Fernando López Aguilar S&D Spain 2009 2014 Claude Moraes S&D United Kingdom 2014 2019 Juan Fernando López Aguilar S&D Spain 2019 2024 Javier Zarzalejos EPP Spain 2024 Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee consists of 75 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 Javier Zarzalejos, Spain, Chair Magdalena Adamowicz, Poland François-Xavier Bellamy, France Ioan-Rareș Bogdan, Romania Krzysztof Brejza, Poland Caterina Chinnici, Italy Paulo Cunha, Portugal Lena Düpont, Germany Jeroen Lenaers, Netherlands Lukas Mandl, Austria Verena Mertens, Germany Nadine Morano, France Ana Miguel Pedro, Portugal Emil Radev, Bulgaria Alice Teodorescu Måwe, Sweden Tomas Tobé, Sweden Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Greece Adrián Vázquez Lázara, Spain Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Luxembourg Tomáš Zdechovský, Czechia Marina Kaljurand, Estonia, Vice-Chair Alessandro Zan, Italy, Vice-Chair Francisco Assis, Portugal Evin Incir, Sweden Murielle Laurent, France Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Spain Ana Catarina Mendes, Portugal Matjaž Nemec, Slovenia Chloé Ridel, France Birgit Sippel, Germany Krzysztof Śmiszek, Poland Cecilia Strada, Italy Kristian Vigenin, Bulgaria Charlie Weimers, Sweden, Vice-Chair Nicolas Bay, France Alessandro Ciriani, Italy Paolo Inselvini, Italy Mariusz Kamiński, Poland Assita Kanko, Belgium Georgiana Teodorescu, Romania Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Poland Abir Al-Sahlani, Sweden Malik Azmani, Netherlands Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Slovakia Raquel García Hermida-van der Walle, Netherlands Irena Joveva, Slovenia Fabienne Keller, France Moritz Körner, Germany Michael McNamara, Ireland Sophie Wilmès, Belgium Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Spain Jaroslav Bžoch, Czechia Susanna Ceccardi, Italy Marieke Ehlers, Netherlands András László, Hungary Fabrice Leggeri, France Petra Steger, Austria Matthieu Valet, France Tom Vandendriessche, Belgium Jaume Asens Llodrà, Spain Saskia Bricmont, Belgium Mélissa Camara, France Alice Bah Kuhnke, Sweden Erik Marquardt, Germany Tineke Strik, Netherlands Estrella Galán, Spain, Vice-Chair Giuseppe Antoci, Italy Pernando Barrena Arza, Spain Damien Carême, France Ilaria Salis, Italy Mary Khan, Germany Milan Uhrík, Slovakia Roberto Vannacci, Italy Non-Inscrits Erik Kaliňák, Slovakia Martin Sonneborn, Germany

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 Fredis Beleris, Greece David Casa, Malta Henrik Dahl, Denmark Alma Ezcurra Almansa, Spain Loucas Fourlas, Cyprus Rasa Juknevičienė, Lithuania Ondřej Kolář, Czechia Marie-Sophie Lanig, Germany Dolors Montserrat, Spain Karlo Ressler, Croatia Oliver Schenk, Germany Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Poland Romana Tomc, Slovenia Pekka Toveri, Finland Loránt Vincze, Romania Axel Voss, Germany Maria Walsh, Ireland Michał Wawrykiewicz, Poland Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Spain Alex Agius Saliba, Malta Katarina Barley, Germany Gheorghe Cârciu, Romania Elio Di Rupo, Belgium Hannes Heide, Austria Javier Moreno Sánchez, Spain Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Ireland Emma Rafowicz, France Thijs Reuten, Netherlands Sandro Ruotolo, Italy Nacho Sánchez Amor, Spain Marco Tarquinio, Italy Nikola Bartůšek, Czechia Joachim Brudziński, Poland Geadis Geadi, Cyprus Giuseppe Milazzo, Italy Jacek Ozdoba, Poland Nicola Procaccini, Italy Sebastian Tynkkynen, Finland Maciej Wąsik, Poland Anna-Maja Henriksson, Finland Nathalie Loiseau, France Nikola Minchev, Bulgaria Jan-Christoph Oetjen, Germany Pina Picierno, Italy Ana Vasconcelos, Portugal Hilde Vautmans, Belgium Lucia Yar, Slovakia Dainius Žalimas, Lithuania Patriots for Europe Greens–European Free Alliance The Left Europe of Sovereign Nations Mieke Andriese, Netherlands Majbritt Birkholm, Denmark Anna Maria Cisint, Italy Kinga Gál, Hungary Afroditi Latinopoulou, Greece Pascale Piera, France António Tânger Corrêa, Portugal Alexandre Varaut, France Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik, Poland Daniel Freund, Germany Markéta Gregorová, Czechia Hannah Neumann, Germany Leoluca Orlando, Italy Diana Riba i Giner, Spain Anna Strolenberg, Netherlands Konstantinos Arvanitis, Greece Özlem Demirel, Germany João Oliveira, Portugal Gaetano Pedulla', Italy Isabel Serra Sánchez, Spain Anja Arndt, Germany Alexander Sell, Germany Petar Volgin, Bulgaria Non-Inscrits Nikolaos Anadiotis, Greece Malika Sorel, France

Controversy

In July 2014, Udo Voigt, a former leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany, joined the committee as a non-attached member. His appointment prompted criticism from the then President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, the European Jewish Congress and anti-racism organisations.

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, briefings and other analyses concerning fundamental rights, justice and home affairs, migration, asylum, border management, data protection, internal security and the rule of law.

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 Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

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