European Economic
and Social Committee
Organisational chart (political)
Presidency and political bodies 2023-2025
Presidency
- EESC President: Oliver Röpke (Workers' Group)
Commission for Financial and Budgetary Affairs (CAF)
- Vice-President: Krzysztof Pater (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
Communication commission (COCOM)
- Vice-President: Aurel Laurenţiu Plosceanu (Employers' Group)
Audit Committee
- Antonio GARCÍA DEL RIEGO (Employers' Group)
- Jack O’CONNOR (Workers' Group)
- Benjamin RIZZO (Civil Society Organisations’ Group Group)
Quaestors
- Janusz PIETKIEWICZ (Employers' Group)
- Tatjana BABRAUSKIENĖ (Workers' Group)
- Panagiotis GKOFAS (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
Groups
- Employers' Group - (Group I) – President: Stefano MALLIA
- Workers' Group - (Group 2) – President: Lucie STUDNIČNÁ
- Civil Society Organisations' Group - (Group 3) – President: Seamus BOLAND
Bureau
Assembly 329 members
Sections & other bodies
ECO - Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion
- President: Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
INT - Section for Single Market, Production and Consumption
- President: Sandra PARTHIE (Employers' Group)
TEN - Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society
- President: Baiba MILTOVIČA (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
REX - Section for External Relations
- President: Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers' Group)
NAT - Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment
- President: Peter SCHMIDT (Workers' Group)
SOC - Section for Employment, Social affairs and Citizenship
- President: Cinzia DEL RIO (Workers' Group)
CCMI - Consultative Commission on Industrial Change
- President: Pietro Francesco DE LOTTO (Employers' Group)
DSMO - Digital Transition and Single Market Observatory
- President: Louise GRABO (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
LMO - Labour Market Observatory
- President: Carlos Manuel TRINDADE (Workers' Group)
SDO - Sustainable Development Observatory
- President: Maurizio REALE (Employers' Group)
Ad hoc Groups
Ad hoc Group on the European Citizens' Initiative
- President: Violeta JELIĆ (Employers' Group)
Ad hoc group on Fundamental Rights and the Rule of Law
- President: Paul SOETE (Employers' Group)
Ad hoc group "European Semester"
- President: Luca JAHIER (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
Ad hoc group on Equality
- President: Sif HOLST (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
Ad hoc group on the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- President: Peter SCHMIDT (Workers' Group)
Working group on the format and length of opinions
- President: Cillian LOHAN (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
Permanent groups
TEN permanent group on Services of general interest
- President: Georgi STOEV (Employers' Group)
TEN permanent group on Energy
- President: Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers' Group)
TEN permanent group on Transport
- President: Kristina KRUPAVIČIENĖ (Workers' Group)
SOC permanent group on Immigration and integration
- President: Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
SOC permanent group on Inclusion of the Roma
- President: Ákos TOPOLÁNSZKY (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
SOC permanent group on Disability rights
- President: Christophe LEFÈVRE (Workers' Group)
ECO permanent group on Economic and fiscal governance of the euro area
- President: Juraj SIPKO (Civil Society Organisations’ Group)
NAT permanent group on Sustainable food systems
- President: Piroska KÁLLAY (Workers' Group)