Update with Maltese substitute members below – The names of the MEPs who will sit on the new committees established in June at the European Parliament were announced today. Maltese MEP Miriam Dalli (S&D) will sit on the Special Committee on Beating Cancer as a full member.

Substitute members on these new committees include three other Maltese MEPs. MEP Roberta Metsola (EPP) will be a substitute member on the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age as will MEP Alex Agius Saliba (S&D). MEP Alfred Sant (S&D) will be a substitute member on the Subcommittee on Tax Matters.

The Members’ lists announced are for new subcommittee, three special committees and a committee of inquiry Committees to focus on taxation, artificial intelligence, foreign interference, cancer and animal transport.

The European Parliament explained that the members of these committees are chosen by the political groups, which communicate their selection to Parliament’s President.

Each political group is allocated a number of seats in proportion to the number of MEPs it accounts for in the whole of the EP.

The chairs and vice-chairs of each committee will be decided at the constitutive meetings in September.

Each special committee is composed of 33 members, whereas the subcommittee and committee of inquiry have 30 members each.

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