Coordinator

Every political group in the European Parliament has a coordinator for each committee. The coordinators plan the agendas for the meetings with the President and Vice Presidents of the committees. They also negotiate amendments and the outcome of deliberations.

The coordinators are the most powerful in a committee since the roles as President and Vice Presidents are more formal. For each topic a committee also appoint a rapporteur to write a report and suggest proposals for amendments to the proposals for new laws established by the European Commission.

The political groups then appoint shadow rapporteurs to negotiate with the rapporteur.

The role of coordinators, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs will now be inserted in the rules of the Parliament. This was proposed by a Reform Working Group in a report published in April 2009.

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