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Today is the fourth day of the confirmation hearings of the Commissioners-designate in which MEPs evaluate whether the Commissioners-designate are qualified both to be a member of the College and to carry out the particular duties to which they have been assigned.

Find more detailed information about the hearings process and how to follow them.

All hearings are public and can be followed live on Parliament’s webstreaming and Ebs/Ebs+.

Find additional information also on Parliament’s dedicated website on the hearings.

Find press releases on the hearings.

Today’s hearings schedule is as follows:

9.00 – 12.00, room ANTALL 2Q2

Wopke Hoekstra

Portfolio: Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth

Responsible committees

Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Contacts

Thomas HAAHR
(+32) 470 88 09 87

EP_Environment

Baptiste CHATAIN

(+32) 498 98 13 37

EP_Industry

Lieven COSIJN

(+32) 473 864 141

You can watch the hearing live.

Press point

Antonio Decaro (S&D, Italy), Chair of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and Aurore Lalucq (S&D, France), Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, will hold a press point after the hearing outside the meeting room. You can follow it live on Parliament’s webstreaming and on EbS.

9.00 – 12.00, room ANTALL 4Q2

Marta Kos

Portfolio: Commissioner for Enlargement

Responsible committee

Committee on Foreign Affairs

Contacts

Viktor ALMQVIST

(+32) 470 88 29 42

EP_ForeignAff

Snjezana KOBESCAK SMODIS

(+32) 470 96 08 19

EP_ForeignAff

Polona TEDESKO
(+32) 470 88 42 82

You can watch the hearing live.

Press point

Commissioner-designate Marta Kos will hold a press point after the hearing outside the meeting room. You can follow it live on Parliament’s webstreaming and on EbS.

14.30 – 17.30, room ANTALL 2Q2

Piotr Serafin

Portfolio: Commissioner for Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration

Responsible committee

Committee on Budgets

Committee on Budgetary Control

Contacts

Armin WISDORFF

(+32) 498 98 13 45

EP_Budgets

Janis KRASTINS

(+32) 473 33 25 36

EP_budgcontrol

Dorota KOLINSKA
(+32) 498 98 32 80

You can watch the hearing live.

Press point

Johan van Overtveldt (ECR, Belgium), Chair of the Committee on Budgets, and Niclas Herbst (EPP, Germany), Chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control, will hold a press point after the hearing outside the meeting room.

Commissioner-designate Piotr Serafin will also talk to the press after the hearing.

You can follow their statements live on Parliament’s webstreaming and on EbS.

14.30 – 17.30, room ANTALL 4Q2

Valdis Dombrovskis

Portfolio: Commissioner for Economy and Productivity; Implementation and Simplification

Responsible committee

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

Committee on Legal Affairs

Contacts

John SCHRANZ

(+32) 498 98 14 02

EP_Economics

Martina VASS

(+32) 477 99 11 57

EP_Legal

You can watch the hearing live.

Press point

Aurore Lalucq (S&D, France), Chair of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Renew, BG), Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, will hold a press point after the hearing outside the meeting room. You can follow it live on Parliament’s webstreaming and on EbS.