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The '''Bureau''' of the [[European Parliament]] is responsible for matters relating to the budget, administration, organisation and staff. It is composed of the [[President of the European Parliament]] along with all 14 [[Vice President of the European Parliament|Vice-Presidents]] and the five [[Quaestor (European Parliament)|Quaestors]] (in a consultative capacity). They are elected for two and a half years (renewable term) with the President holding a [[casting vote]]. Elections are usually held at the start, and at the midpoint, of each Parliamentary term.

==Members==
===2024-2027===
[[File:Constitutive meeting of the new Bureau of the EP - group photo.jpg|thumb|Bureau of the European Parliament (2024-2027)]]
{{Main|2024 Bureau of the European Parliament election}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''[[President of the European Parliament|President]]'''
|style="width:1px;" style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|style="width:50px;" |'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|style="width:150px;" |'''[[Roberta Metsola]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|MLT}}}}
|-
!colspan=5 |
|-
!rowspan=14 |'''[[Vice-President of the European Parliament|Vice Presidents]]'''
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Sabine Verheyen]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Ewa Kopacz]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POL}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Esteban González Pons]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SPA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Katarina Barley]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Pina Picierno]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ITA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Victor Negrescu]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ROM}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Martin Hojsík]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SVK}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Christel Schaldemose]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|DEN}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Javi López Fernández|Javi López]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SPA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Sophie Wilmès]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|BEL}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Greens–European Free Alliance}}" |
|'''{{small|G/EFA}}'''
|'''[[Nicolae Ștefănuță]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ROM}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|European Conservatives and Reformists}};" |
|'''{{small|ECR}}'''
|'''[[Roberts Zīle]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|LAT}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|European Conservatives and Reformists}};" |
|'''{{small|ECR}}'''
|'''[[Antonella Sberna]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ITA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}" |
|'''{{small|LEFT}}'''
|'''[[Younous Omarjee]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
!colspan=5 |
|-
!rowspan=5 |'''[[Quaestor (European Parliament)|Quaestors]]'''
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Andrey Kovatchev]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|BGR}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Marc Angel]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|LUX}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Miriam Lexmann]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SVK}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Fabienne Keller]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|European Conservatives and Reformists}};" |
|'''{{small|ECR}}'''
|'''[[Kosma Złotowski]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POL}}}}
|}

===2022-2024===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''[[President of the European Parliament|President]]'''
|style="width:1px;" style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|style="width:50px;" |'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|style="width:150px;" |'''[[Roberta Metsola]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|MLT}}}}
|-
!colspan=5 |
|-
!rowspan=14 |'''[[Vice-President of the European Parliament|Vice Presidents]]'''
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Othmar Karas]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|AUT}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Ewa Kopacz]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POL}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Rainer Wieland]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Pina Picierno]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ITA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Pedro Silva Pereira]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POR}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Eva Kaili]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GRE}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Evelyn Regner]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|AUT}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Katarina Barley]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Dita Charanzová]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|CZE}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Michal Šimečka]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SVK}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Nicola Beer]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|European Conservatives and Reformists}};" |
|'''{{small|ECR}}'''
|'''[[Roberts Zīle]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|LAT}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}" |
|'''{{small|GUE/NGL}}'''
|'''[[Dimitrios Papadimoulis]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GRE}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|Greens–European Free Alliance}};" |
|'''{{small|G/EFA}}'''
|'''[[Heidi Hautala]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FIN}}}}
|-
!colspan=5 |
|-
!rowspan=5 |'''[[Quaestor (European Parliament)|Quaestors]]'''
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Anne Sander (politician)|Anne Sander]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Christophe Hansen]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|LUX}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Monika Beňová]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SVK}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Renew Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Fabienne Keller]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
|style="background:{{party color|Greens–European Free Alliance}};" |
|'''{{small|G/EFA}}'''
|'''[[Marcel Kolaja]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|CZE}}}}
|}

===2019-2022===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''[[President of the European Parliament|President]]'''
|style="width:1px;"  style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|style="width:50px;" |'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|style="width:150px;" |'''[[David Sassoli]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ITA}}}}
|-
! colspan="5" |
|-
! rowspan="14" |'''[[Vice-President of the European Parliament|Vice-Presidents]]'''
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Mairead McGuinness]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|IRL}}}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Rainer Wieland]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Othmar Karas]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|AUT}}}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Ewa Kopacz]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POL}}}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Lívia Járóka]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|HUN}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Pedro Silva Pereira]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POR}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Katarina Barley]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Klára Dobrev]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|HUN}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Dita Charanzová]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|CZE}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Nicola Beer]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GER}}}}
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Greens–European Free Alliance}};" |
|'''{{small|G/EFA}}'''
|'''[[Heidi Hautala]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FIN}}}}
|-
| style="background:{{party color|Greens–European Free Alliance}};" |
|'''{{small|G/EFA}}'''
|'''[[Marcel Kolaja]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|CZE}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|European United Left–Nordic Green Left}}" |
|'''{{small|GUE/NGL}}'''
|'''[[Dimitrios Papadimoulis]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|GRE}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:white" |
|'''{{small|NI}}'''
|'''[[Fabio Massimo Castaldo]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|ITA}}}}
|-
! colspan="5" |
|-
! rowspan="5" |'''[[Quaestor (European Parliament)|Quaestors]]'''
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[Anne Sander (politician)|Anne Sander]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|European People's Party}}" |
|'''{{small|EPP}}'''
|'''[[David Casa]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|MLT}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats}}" |
|'''{{small|S&D}}'''
|'''[[Monika Beňová]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|SVK}}}}
|-
|style="background-color:{{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}" |
|'''{{small|RE}}'''
|'''[[Gilles Boyer]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|FRA}}}}
|-
| style="background:{{party color|European Conservatives and Reformists}};" |
|'''{{small|ECR}}'''
|'''[[Karol Karski]]'''
|{{small|{{flag|POL}}}}
|}

===2009-2012===
{| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%"
! Member
! Position
!style="width: 3px;" class="unsortable" | &nbsp;
! Political group
! Constituency
|-
| [[Jerzy Buzek]]
| [[President of the European Parliament|President]]
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| [[European People's Party (European Parliament group)|European People's Party]]
| [[Silesian (European Parliament constituency)|Silesian (Poland)]]
|-
| [[Giovanni Pittella]]
| [[Vice President of the European Parliament|Vice President]]
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| [[Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats|Socialists & Democrats]]
| [[Southern Italy (European Parliament constituency)|Southern Italy]]
|-
| [[Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| [[Greece (European Parliament constituency)|Greece]]
|-
| [[Anni Podimata]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Socialists & Democrats
| Greece
|-
| [[Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Socialists & Democrats
| [[Spain (European Parliament constituency)|Spain]]
|-
| [[Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| Spain
|-
| [[Dagmar Roth-Behrendt]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Socialists & Democrats
| [[Germany (European Parliament constituency)|Germany]]
|-
| [[Libor Rouček]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Socialists & Democrats
| [[Czech Republic (European Parliament constituency)|Czech Republic]]
|-
| [[Isabelle Durant]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#009900; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| [[The Greens–European Free Alliance|Green-EFA]]
| [[French-speaking electoral college|French-speaking Belgium]]
|-
| [[Roberta Angelilli]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| [[Central Italy (European Parliament constituency)|Central Italy]]
|-
| [[Diana Wallis]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| [[Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe]]
| [[Yorkshire and the Humber (European Parliament constituency)|Yorkshire and the Humber (UK)]]
|-
| [[László Tőkés]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| [[Romania (European Parliament constituency)|Romania]]
|-
| [[Edward McMillan-Scott]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
| Yorkshire and the Humber (UK)
|-
| [[Rainer Wieland]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| Germany
|-
| [[Giles Chichester]]
| Vice President
!style="background-color:#0000FF; width: 3px;"  | &nbsp;
| European Conservatives and Reformists
| [[South West England (European Parliament constituency)|South West England (UK)]]
|-
| [[Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg]]
| [[Quaestor (European Parliament)|Quaestor]]
!style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Socialists & Democrats
| [[Lower Silesian and Opole (European Parliament constituency)|Lower Silesian and Opole (Poland)]]
|-
| [[Jim Higgins (Irish politician)|Jim Higgins]]
| Quaestor
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| [[North-West (European Parliament constituency)|North-West Ireland]]
|-
| [[Astrid Lulling]]
| Quaestor
!style="background-color:#3399FF; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| European People's Party
| [[Luxembourg (European Parliament constituency)|Luxembourg]]
|-
| [[Jiří Maštálka]]
| Quaestor
!style="background-color:#990000; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| [[European United Left–Nordic Green Left]]
| Czech Republic
|-
| [[Bill Newton Dunn]]
| Quaestor
!style="background-color:#FFFF00; width: 3px;" | &nbsp;
| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
| [[East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)|East Midlands (UK)]]
|}

====Resigned====
*[[Pál Schmitt]], Vice President, EPP, Hungary - became President of the Republic of Hungary on 6 August 2010
:replaced by Tőkés (Romania)
*[[Silvana Koch-Mehrin]], Vice President, ALDE, Germany - resigned over doctoral thesis plagiarism affair on 11 May 2011
:replaced by Chichester (South West England)
*[[Stavros Lambrinidis]], Vice President, S & D, Greece - became Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece on 17 June 2011
:replaced by Podimata (Greece)

===2007-2009===
* [[Hans-Gert Pöttering]]: President
* [[Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou]]: Vice-President
* [[Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca]]: Vice-President
* [[Gérard Onesta]]: Vice-President
* [[Edward McMillan-Scott]]: Vice-President
* [[Mario Mauro]]: Vice-President
* [[Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez]]: Vice-President
* [[Luigi Cocilovo]]: Vice-President
* [[Mechtild Rothe]]: Vice-President
* [[Luisa Morgantini]]: Vice-President
* [[Pierre Moscovici]]: Vice-President
* [[Manuel António dos Santos]]: Vice-President
* [[Diana Wallis]]: Vice-President	
* [[Marek Siwiec]]: Vice-President	
* [[Adam Bielan]]: Vice-President	
* [[Jim Nicholson (Northern Ireland politician)|James Nicholson]]: Quaestor
* [[Astrid Lulling]]: Quaestor
* [[Mia De Vits]]: Quaestor
* [[Ingo Friedrich]]: Quaestor
* [[Szabolcs Fazakas]]: Quaestor
* [[Jan Mulder (politician)|Jan Mulder]]: Quaestor

==Rules of procedure of the European Parliament==
{{cquote|'''Rule 22 : Duties of the Bureau'''

1.   The Bureau shall carry out the duties assigned to it under the Rules of Procedure.

2.   The Bureau shall take financial, organisational and administrative decisions on matters concerning Members and the internal organisation of Parliament, its Secretariat and its bodies.

3.   The Bureau shall take decisions on matters relating to the conduct of sittings.

4.   The Bureau shall adopt the provisions referred to in Rule 31 concerning Non-attached Members.

5.   The Bureau shall decide the establishment plan of the Secretariat and lay down regulations relating to the administrative and financial situation of officials and other servants.

6.   The Bureau shall draw up Parliament's preliminary draft estimates.

7.   The Bureau shall adopt the guidelines for the Quaestors pursuant to Rule 25.

8.   The Bureau shall be the authority responsible for authorising meetings of committees away from the usual places of work, hearings and study and fact-finding journeys by rapporteurs.

Where such meetings are authorised, the language arrangements shall be determined on the basis of the official languages used and requested by the members and substitutes of the committee concerned.

The same shall apply in the case of the delegations, except where the members and substitutes concerned agree otherwise.

9.   The Bureau shall appoint the Secretary-General pursuant to Rule 197.

10.   The Bureau shall lay down the implementing rules relating to European Parliament and Council Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 on the regulations governing political parties at European level and the rules regarding their funding and shall, in implementing that Regulation, assume the tasks conferred upon it by these Rules of Procedure.

11.   The President and/or the Bureau may entrust one or more members of the Bureau with general or specific tasks lying within the competence of the President and/or the Bureau. At the same time the ways and means of carrying them out shall be laid down.

12.   When a new Parliament is elected, the outgoing Bureau shall remain in office until the first sitting of the new Parliament.}}

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