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Rapporteur

EU Parliament in Brussels (Photo: EP)

A member of the EU Parliament that follows and reports on a particular issue for a parliamentary committee.
Rapporteurships are distributed between the political groups according to a points system based on the size of the group.
Every report or potential report is allocated a number of points according to its estimated importance.
The biggest EU Parliament groups normally get the most interesting reports, but the points system ensures that some interesting issues and reports are allocated to rapporteurs from the smaller groups in the Parliament.
A rapporteur draws up a report to the committee with proposals for changes to the Commission/Council proposal for a legal act. A report can be accompaniet by personal statements of the rapporteur but all conclusions and amendments are decided by the majority of the committee.  
Occasionally, rapporteurs have resigned or critisized own reports because they objected to having their names on reports that they disagreed with.

A rapporteur often co-operates with the shadow-rapporteurs from the other political groups, possibly also with the the co-ordinators from the different political groups that in practice organise the EU Parliament's influence under the common decision-making.