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EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced
the nominees for the next European Commission. The nominees to the
major portfolios are:
Competition – Joaquin Almunia (Spain)
Trade – Karel De Gucht (Belgium)
Internal Market and Services – Michel Barnier
(France)
Economic and Monetary Affairs - Olli Rehn (Finland)
Energy – Günther Oettinger (Germany)
The remaining portfolio nominees are:
Digital Agenda – Neelie Kroes (Netherlands)
Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship – Viviane
Reding (Luxembourg)
Agriculture and Rural Development – Dacian Ciolos
(Romania)
Health and Consumer Policy – John Dalli (Malta)
Maritime Affairs and Fisheries – Maria Damanaki
(Greece)
Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion –
László Andor (Hungary)
Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy –
`tefan Füle (Czech Republic)
Regional Policy – Johannes Hahn (Austria)
Climate Action – Connie Hedegaard (Denmark)
Research and Innovation – Maire Geoghegan-Quinn
(Ireland)
International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Respons
- Rumiana Jeleva (Bulgaria)
Transport – Siim Kallas (Estonia)
Budget and Financial Programming - Janusz Lewandowski
(Poland)
Home Affairs – Cecilia Malmström (Sweden)
Development – Andris Piebalgs (Latvia)
Environment – Janez Potočnik (Slovenia)
Vice President of the Commission for Inter-Institutional
Relations and Administration – Maroŝ
Ŝefĉoviĉ (Slovakia)
Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud –
Algirdas Ŝemeta (Lithuania)
Industry and Entrepreneurship – Antonio Tajani
(Italy)
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth –
Androulla Vassiliou (Cyprus)
The European Parliament must approve the new Commission before
the nominees can commence their term of office. Hearings will be
held before a Parliamentary Committee and a vote of consent is
scheduled for 26 January 2010. The new Commission's term of
office will run until 31 October 2014.
The UK does not have a nominee to the Commission as Baroness
Catherine Ashton has been appointed the first High Representative
of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Social Policy, responsible for
EU foreign policy. The country sending the High Representative may
not also nominate a Commissioner. Former Belgian Prime Minister
Herman van Rompuy has been appointed to be the first permanent
President of the European Council. As this is a European Council
post, this does not affect Belgium's right to nominate a
Commissioner. The High Representative and President posts were
created by the Lisbon Treaty.
Lisbon Treaty
The Treaty of Lisbon (the "Lisbon Treaty") comes into
force on 1 December 2009, following the final outstanding
ratification by the Czech Republic in November 2009.
The Lisbon Treaty amends, but does not replace, the Treaty on
European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) and the
Treaty establishing the European Community (EC Treaty) (also known
as the Treaty of Rome). The EC Treaty is renamed "the Treaty
on the Functioning of the European Union" (TFEU).
The Lisbon Treaty also confirms a number of changes in
terminology. The "European Community" will now always be
the "European Union", the "common market" will
be referred to as the "internal market", and the
"Court of First Instance" becomes the "General
Court".
Consolidation of the treaties has led to another renumbering of
the provisions of what we used to call the EC Treaty. In
particular:
Article 82 EC Treaty on the abuse of a dominant position
becomes Article 102 TFEU;
Article 86 on public undertakings and undertakings granted
special or exclusive rights becomes Article 106 TFEU;
Articles 87 and 88 EC Treaty on state aid become respectively
Articles 107 and 108 TFEU;
Article 230 EC Treaty on the review of the legality of acts of
an EU institution becomes Article 263 TFEU;
Article 232 EC Treaty on actions against a failure to act
becomes Article 265 TFEU; and
Article 234 EC Treaty on the jurisdiction of the courts to make
references to the ECJ for preliminary rulings becomes Article 267
TFEU.
These changes are also effective from 1 December 2009.
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