Major events

• 10-13 June 2004
  • Elections to the Sixth Parliament
    European Parliament election, 2004
    Elections to the European Parliament were held from 10 June 2004 to 13 June 2004 in the 25 member states of the European Union, using varying election days according to local custom...
    
    .
• 20 July 2004
  • First meeting (constitutive session) of the Sixth Parliament.
  • Giovanni Berlinguer
    Giovanni Berlinguer
    Giovanni Berlinguer , Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian politician and Professor of Social Medicine.He was born in Sassari, Sardinia, the son of Mario Berlinguer...
    
     presides as oldest member.
  • Josep Borrell
    Josep Borrell
    Josep Borrell Fontelles is a Spanish politician. He was nominated President of the European University Institute on 12 December 2008, and assumed this position in January 2010. Borrell was President of the European Parliament from 20 July 2004 until 16 January 2007...
    
     is elected as President of the European Parliament
    President of the European Parliament
    The President of the European Parliament presides over the debates and activities of the European Parliament. He or she also represents the Parliament within the EU and internationally. The President's signature is required for enacting most EU laws and the EU budget.Presidents serve...
    
    .
• 22 July 2004
  • Parliament approves José Manuel Barroso as President of the European Commission
    President of the European Commission
    The President of the European Commission is the head of the European Commission ― the executive branch of the :European Union ― the most powerful officeholder in the EU. The President is responsible for allocating portfolios to members of the Commission and can reshuffle or dismiss them if needed...
    
    .
• 27 September to 11 October 2004
  • Parliamentary hearings for the European Commissioner
    European Commissioner
    A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...
    
    s.
  • Parliament airs objections to Ingrida Udre
    Ingrida Udre
    Ingrīda Ūdre is a Latvian politician who belongs to the Latvian Farmers' Union political party.Ūdre is a former professional basketball player who worked as an accountant after the end of her basketball career. She was first elected to Saeima, the Latvian parliament, in 1998, from the list of the...
    
    , László Kovács, Neelie Kroes
    Neelie Kroes
    Neelie Kroes is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy . She served as a Member of the House of Representatives from 3 August 1971 until 28 December 1977 when she became State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 28 December 1977 until 11...
    
    , Mariann Fischer-Boel and Rocco Buttiglione
    Rocco Buttiglione
    Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and an academic.His nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his Roman Catholic views on homosexuality, despite...
    
    .
  • Buttiglione is replaced by Franco Frattini, Ingrida Udre replaced by Andris Piebalgs
    Andris Piebalgs
    Andris Piebalgs is a Latvian politician and diplomat, currently serving as European Commissioner for Development at the European Commission. Between 2004 and 2010 he served as Commissioner for Energy.-Career:...
    
     and László Kovács reshuffled.
• 18 November 2004
  • The Barroso Commission
    Barroso Commission
    The Barroso Commission is the European Commission that has been in office since 22 November 2004 and is due to serve until 2014. Its president is José Manuel Barroso, who presides over 26 other commissioners...
    
     is approved by Parliament.
• 22 November 2004
  • Barroso Commission takes office.
• 12 December 2006
  • Parliament approves Meglena Kuneva
    Meglena Kuneva
    Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva is a Bulgarian and EU politician.Born in Sofia, Kuneva graduated in Law from Sofia University in 1981. In 1984 she became a Doctor of Law. She worked as a journalist for the Law Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio while being an Assistant Professor at Sofia...
    
     and Leonard Orban
    Leonard Orban
    Leonard Orban is a Romanian independent technocrat who served as the Commissioner for Multilingualism in the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union . He was responsible for the EU language policy and was the first Romanian Commissioner and the first member of the Commission...
    
     as new European Commissioners for Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
    
     and Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
    
    .
• 1 January 2007
  • Accession of Romania and Bulgaria, their observers in Parliament become full MEPs.
• 15 January 2007
  • Hans-Gert Pöttering
    Hans-Gert Pöttering
    Hans-Gert Pöttering is a German conservative politician , and was the President of the European Parliament from January 2007 to July 2009...
    
     is elected President of the European Parliament.
• 20 May 2007
  • Election of Bulgarian MEPs
    European Parliament election, 2007 (Bulgaria)
    Bulgaria elected its members of the European Parliament in a by-election on 20 May 2007. It was the country's first European election, having joined the Union on 1 January of that year. The country now has 18 MEPs, no change from before the election. Previously Bulgaria was represented by MEPs...
    
    .
• 25 November 2007
  • Election of Romanian MEPs
    European Parliament election, 2007 (Romania)
    Romania elected its members of the European Parliament for the first time on 25 November 2007; the election was initially scheduled for 13 May, but the PM postponed it for domestic political reasons...
    
    .
• 20 February 2008
  • Parliament approves the Lisbon Treaty.

Activity

Major resolutions and positions

Summary

Temporary committees

Committees of enquiry

Delegations

Political groups

See membership below for details of size

Group name	Acronym
European People's Party–European Democrats European People's Party–European Democrats The Group of the European People's Party , abbreviated to EPP Group, is a centre-right political group of the European Parliament...	EPP-ED
Party of European Socialists Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...	PES
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is a transnational alliance between two European political parties: the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party and the European Democratic Party. It has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the...	ALDE
Greens/European Free Alliance	G/EFA
European United Left-Nordic Green Left	EUL-NGL
Independence/Democracy	IND/DEM
Union for a Europe of Nations	UEN
Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty thumb|right|Group logoIdentity, Tradition, Sovereignty was a political group in the European Parliament composed of 23 members from European parties variously described as right-wing and nationalist... Created 15 January 2007, disbanded 14 November 2007	ITS
Non-Inscrits Non-Inscrits Non-Inscrits are Members of the European Parliament who do not sit in one of the recognized political groups.... Independents, not a group	NI

Presidents

Vice-Presidents

Quaestors

Chairs of the political groups

Membership

See List of members of the European Parliament 2004–2009 for the full list.

Secretariat

Elections

External links

• European Parliament
• Explanation of codecision
• European Parliament positions
• European Parliament and European Council common positions
• European Parliament Conciliation Committee Joint texts