European Parliament Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety

Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety
Abbreviation	ENVI
Type	Standing committee
Legislature	European Parliament
Parliamentary term	10th European Parliament
Chair	Pierfrancesco Maran; S&D, Italy
Vice-Chairs	Esther Herranz García (EPP); Pietro Fiocchi (ECR); Anja Hazekamp (The Left); András Tivadar Kulja (EPP)
Members	90
Political composition	EPP: 24 · S&D: 17 · ECR: 10 · Renew: 10; PfE: 11 · Greens/EFA: 7 · The Left: 6 · ESN: 3 · NI: 2
Jurisdiction	Environmental and climate policy, pollution, chemicals, biodiversity, circular economy and food safety
Website	Official website

The Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety (ENVI) is a standing committee of the European Parliament. It is responsible for environmental and climate policy, pollution prevention, chemicals, waste and the circular economy, biodiversity, civil protection and food safety. Public health responsibilities previously exercised by ENVI were transferred to the new Committee on Public Health during the tenth parliamentary term.

Responsibilities

The committee is responsible for environmental policy and environmental-protection measures, including climate change, air, soil and water pollution, waste management and recycling, dangerous substances, noise, biodiversity and the restoration of environmental damage.

Its remit includes:

climate policy and implementation of the European Green Deal;
air, soil and water quality and measures against pollution;
waste prevention, waste management, recycling and the circular economy;
chemicals, pesticides and other dangerous substances;
nature restoration, biodiversity and protection of natural resources;
sustainable development and international environmental agreements;
civil protection and responses to environmental disasters;
the European Environment Agency and the European Chemicals Agency;
the safety and labelling of foodstuffs and food-production systems; and
the European Food Safety Authority.

The committee scrutinises the implementation of environmental legislation and follows major policy initiatives concerning climate neutrality, industrial decarbonisation, air and water quality, biodiversity, chemicals, pesticides and food safety. Parliament's official committee page describes ENVI as one of its two largest committees, with 90 members.

Evolution

The committee's importance increased substantially as the European Parliament acquired greater legislative powers in environmental and health policy. The extension of the ordinary legislative procedure to these areas made ENVI one of Parliament's principal legislative committees. Environmental legislation, climate policy and food-safety regulation have consequently formed a major part of its workload.

Until 2025, the committee was formally named the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. Following the creation of a separate standing Committee on Public Health, its current name and remit place greater emphasis on climate and environmental legislation while retaining responsibility for food safety.

Chairs

The following table lists the chairs of the committee since 1979.

Name	Political group	Member state	Took office	Left office
Ken Collins	Socialist Group	United Kingdom	1979	1984
Beate Weber	Socialist Group	Germany	1984	1989
Ken Collins	Socialist Group	United Kingdom	1989	1999
Caroline Jackson	EPP–ED	United Kingdom	1999	2004
Karl-Heinz Florenz	EPP–ED	Germany	2004	2007
Miroslav Ouzký	UEN	Czechia	2007	2009
Jo Leinen	S&D	Germany	2009	2012
Matthias Groote	S&D	Germany	2012	2014
Giovanni La Via	EPP	Italy	2014	2019
Pascal Canfin	Renew Europe	France	2019	2024
Antonio Decaro	S&D	Italy	2024	2026
Pierfrancesco Maran	S&D	Italy	2026	Incumbent

Members

10th Parliament, 2024–2029

The committee currently consists of 90 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
Esther Herranz García, Spain, Vice-Chair András Tivadar Kulja, Hungary, Vice-Chair Pascal Arimont, Belgium Bartosz Arłukowicz, Poland Alexander Bernhuber, Austria Ioan-Rareș Bogdan, Romania Zala Tomašič, Slovenia Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Poland Niels Flemming Hansen, Denmark Radan Kanev, Bulgaria Stefan Köhler, Germany Ewa Kopacz, Poland Peter Liese, Germany Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Poland Dolors Montserrat, Spain Letizia Moratti, Italy Jessica Polfjärd, Sweden Massimiliano Salini, Italy Oliver Schenk, Germany Susana Solís Pérez, Spain Ingeborg ter Laak, Netherlands Flavio Tosi, Italy Dimitris Tsiodras, Greece Andrea Wechsler, Germany	Pierfrancesco Maran, Italy, Chair Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuania Sakis Arnaoutoglou, Greece Thomas Bajada, Malta Delara Burkhardt, Germany Mohammed Chahim, Netherlands Christophe Clergeau, France Annalisa Corrado, Italy Heléne Fritzon, Sweden Romana Jerković, Croatia Javi López, Spain César Luena, Spain Alessandra Moretti, Italy Günther Sidl, Austria Marta Temido, Portugal Kristian Vigenin, Bulgaria Tiemo Wölken, Germany	Pietro Fiocchi, Italy, Vice-Chair Sergio Berlato, Italy Emmanouil Fragkos, Greece Jacek Ozdoba, Poland Michele Picaro, Italy Nicola Procaccini, Italy Beatrice Timgren, Sweden Aurelijus Veryga, Lithuania Alexandr Vondra, Czechia Anna Zalewska, Poland	Grégory Allione, France Stine Bosse, Denmark Pascal Canfin, France Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Netherlands Andreas Glück, Germany Martin Hojsík, Slovakia Katri Kulmuni, Finland Ana Vasconcelos, Portugal Emma Wiesner, Sweden Michal Wiezik, Slovakia
Patriots for Europe	Greens–European Free Alliance	The Left	Europe of Sovereign Nations
Mathilde Androuët, France Barbara Bonte, Belgium Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, France Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Spain Viktória Ferenc, Hungary Anne-Sophie Frigout, France Roman Haider, Austria Ondřej Knotek, Czechia Jana Nagyová, Czechia Silvia Sardone, Italy Antonín Staněk, Czechia	Pär Holmgren, Sweden Ignazio Marino, Italy Tilly Metz, Luxembourg Rasmus Nordqvist, Denmark Jutta Paulus, Germany Majdouline Sbaï, France Lena Schilling, Austria	Anja Hazekamp, Netherlands, Vice-Chair Lynn Boylan, Ireland Emma Fourreau, France Martin Günther, Germany Catarina Martins, Portugal Jonas Sjöstedt, Sweden	Anja Arndt, Germany Ivan David, Czechia Marc Jongen, Germany
Non-Inscrits
Ondřej Dostál, Czechia Fernand Kartheiser, Luxembourg

Substitute members

Substitute members of the 10th Parliament (click “show” to expand)

The committee's substitute members are listed below.

European People's Party	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	European Conservatives and Reformists	Renew Europe
François-Xavier Bellamy, France Hildegard Bentele, Germany Daniel Buda, Romania Carmen Crespo Díaz, Spain Dóra Dávid, Hungary Raúl de la Hoz Quintano, Spain Jens Gieseke, Germany Sunčana Glavak, Croatia Michalis Hatzipantelas, Cyprus Sérgio Humberto, Portugal Adam Jarubas, Poland Seán Kelly, Ireland Martine Kemp, Luxembourg Norbert Lins, Germany Danuše Nerudová, Czechia Lídia Pereira, Portugal Sirpa Pietikäinen, Finland Virgil-Daniel Popescu, Romania Dennis Radtke, Germany Manuela Ripa, Germany Tomislav Sokol, Croatia Liesbet Sommen, Belgium	Biljana Borzan, Croatia Estelle Ceulemans, Belgium Nikolas Farantouris, Greece André Franqueira Rodrigues, Portugal Nicolás González Casares, Spain Pierre Jouvet, France Dan Nica, Romania Maria Noichl, Germany Leire Pajín, Spain Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, France Matteo Ricci, Italy Chloé Ridel, France Elena Sancho Murillo, Spain Christel Schaldemose, Denmark Irene Tinagli, Italy Bruno Tobback, Belgium Raffaele Topo, Italy	Galato Alexandraki, Greece Adrian-George Axinia, Romania Stefano Cavedagna, Italy Paolo Inselvini, Italy Nora Junco García, Spain Antonella Sberna, Italy Sander Smit, Netherlands Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Romania Laurence Trochu, France Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Poland	Jeannette Baljeu, Netherlands Olivier Chastel, Belgium Sigrid Friis, Denmark Karin Karlsbro, Sweden Billy Kelleher, Ireland Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Bulgaria Christine Singer, Germany Anna Stürgkh, Austria Vlad Voiculescu, Romania Yvan Verougstraete, Belgium
Patriots for Europe	Greens–European Free Alliance	The Left	Europe of Sovereign Nations
Mireia Borrás Pabón, Spain Susanna Ceccardi, Italy Valérie Deloge, France Ton Diepeveen, Netherlands Gerald Hauser, Austria György Hölvényi, Hungary Aldo Patriciello, Italy Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Spain Matthieu Valet, France	Michael Bloss, Germany Martin Häusling, Germany Ufuk Kâhya, Netherlands Sara Matthieu, Belgium Maria Ohisalo, Finland Kai Tegethoff, Germany Marie Toussaint, France	Li Andersson, Finland Per Clausen, Denmark Sebastian Everding, Germany Giorgos Georgiou, Cyprus Valentina Palmisano, Italy	Sarah Knafo, France Volker Schnurrbusch, Germany
Non-Inscrits
Kateřina Konečná, Czechia Friedrich Pürner, Germany

Research support

The committee's work is supported by the research services of the European Parliament. These services provide studies, impact assessments, briefings and other analyses concerning climate policy, environmental legislation, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, the circular economy and food safety.

Publications prepared for the committee are made available through its online database of supporting analyses and through the European Parliament's Think Tank.

References

1 2 3 4 5 "Members – Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
1 2 3 4 "About the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
1 2 "Powers and responsibilities of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
↑ Corbett, Richard; Jacobs, Francis; Neville, Darren (2016). The European Parliament (9th ed.). John Harper Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9934549-5-0.
↑ "Supporting analyses – ENVI". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.
↑ "Latest documents – Supporting analyses – ENVI". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

External links

[ENVI-members-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Members – Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

[ENVI-about-2] 1 2 3 4 "About the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

[ENVI-rules-3] 1 2 "Powers and responsibilities of the Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

[4] Corbett, Richard; Jacobs, Francis; Neville, Darren (2016). The European Parliament (9th ed.). John Harper Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9934549-5-0.

[5] "Supporting analyses – ENVI". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

[6] "Latest documents – Supporting analyses – ENVI". European Parliament. Retrieved 11 July 2026.

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