Labour MEPs assigned new responsabilities

Labour's newly elected MEPs Claudette Abela Baldacchino and Marlene Mizzi have been assigned the committees they will be sitting on during the last year of the current legislature.

In a statement issued today, the Labour Party said that Abela Baldacchino has been appointed member on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and a substitute member on the Budgets Committee.

The MEP, involved in court proceedings instituted against members of the Local Councils' Associatio, for fraud on the payment of air tickets for LCA members following a funds probe by anti-fraud agency OLAF, will also sit on the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand.

She was also nominated to be a substitute member on the delegations for relations with Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo and the Mediterranean Union and Euronest parliamentary assemblies.

The other new Labour MEP Marlene Mizzi will be sitting on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, of which she will be vice-President.

Mizzi has also been appointed a substitute member on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee and a member of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly and Mediterranean Union Assembly delegations.

Veteran MEP John Attard Montaldo was appointed vice-president of the delegation dealing with South East Asia and substitute member on the committee for the relations with Iraq.

He will also act as substitute on the joint parliamentary assemblies between the EU and Latin America and Africa Caribbean Pacific region.

The fourth Labour MEP Joseph Cuschieri will serve on the transport and tourism committee and as a substitute on the regional development committee.

Cuschieri will also sit on the committee responsible for relations with the Arab Peninsula and a substitute member on the delegation responsible for relations with South Africa.