Delors Commission

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The Delors Commission was the European Commission that held office from 1985 until 1995, which consists of three terms. Its president was Jacques Delors, the only person re-appointed by the European Council to further terms as president. It was succeeded by the Santer Commission.

Contents 1 Achievements 2 Members 2.1 First term 2.2 Second term 2.3 Third term 2.4 Key 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Achievements

The Commission gave a new momentum to the process of European integration, notably presiding over the signature of the Single European Act in February 1986. The Commission can also be considered as the "Founding Fathers of the Euro" as they laid down the foundation for the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in the Treaty of Maastricht (1992).

[edit] Members

During the ten years of the Delors Commission its makeup changed twice.

[edit] First term

This commission served from 1985 to 1989.

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	Socialist Party
Secretary General	United Kingdom	David Williamson	none
Mediterranean policy	Spain	Abel Matutes	People's Party
		Alois Pfeiffer
Personnel, administration and translation	Portugal	António Cardoso e Cunha	Social Democratic Party
Environment	Italy	Carlo Ripa di Meana	Sinistra Verde
Mediterranean policy and North-South relations	France	Claude Cheysson	Socialist Party
Internal market tax law and customs	United Kingdom	Francis Cockfield	Conservative Party
External relations and trade policy	Netherlands	Frans Andriessen	KVP
		Grigoris Varfis
Economic and financial affairs	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
		Karl-Heinz Narjes
	Italy	Lorenzo Natali
Cooperation and development	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
		Nicolas Mosar
Budget	Germany	Peter Schmidhuber	CSU
Social affairs, competition	Ireland	Peter Sutherland	Fine Gael
		Stanley Clinton Davis
		Willy De Clercq

[edit] Second term

This commission seved from 1989 to 1993

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	PS
Secretary General	United Kingdom	David Williamson	none
Mediterranean policy	Spain	Abel Matutes	People's Party
Personnel, administration and translation	Italy	Carlo Ripa di Meana	Sinistra Verde
Regional Policy and Cohesion	United Kingdom	Bruce Millan	Labour
Taxes, Revenue Harmonization and Consumer Policies	France	Christiane Scrivener	?
Science, research and development	Italy	Filippo Maria Pandolfi	?
External relations and trade policy	Netherlands	Frans Andriessen
Economic and financial affairs / vice-president	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
?	Portugal	Antonio Cardoso e Cunha	PSD
Audiovisual and cultural affairs	Luxembourg	Jean Dondelinger	?
Transport	Belgium	Karel van Miert	SP
Cooperation and development	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
Internal market and industrial affairs	Germany	Martin Bangemann	FDP
Budget	Germany	Peter Schmidhuber	CSU
Competition	United Kingdom	Sir Leon Brittan	Conservative
Employment, industrial relations and social affairs	Greece	Vasso Papandréou	?PASOK (Socialists)
Agriculture	Ireland	Ray MacSharry	Fianna Fáil

[edit] Third term

This commission served from 1993 to 1995

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	PS
Secretary General	United Kingdom	David Williamson	none
Transportation, Energy and the Supply Agency for Euratom (until April 1994)	Spain	Abel Matutes	People's Party
Science, research, technological development and education.	Italy	Antonio Ruberti	?
Regional Policy and Cohesion	United Kingdom	Bruce Millan	Labour
Taxes, Revenue Harmonization and Consumer Policies	France	Christiane Scrivener	?
Enlargement	Netherlands	Hans van den Broek	KVP/CDA
Economic and financial affairs / vice-president	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
?Environment	Greece	Ioannis Paleokrassas	?ND Christian Democrats
?	Portugal	João de Deus Pinheiro	PSD/PP
Transport	Belgium	Karel van Miert	SP
Cooperation and development	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
Transportation, Energy and the Supply Agency for Euratom (from April 1994)	Spain	Marcelino Oreja	People's Party
Internal market and industrial affairs	Germany	Martin Bangemann	FDP
Employment and Social Affairs	Ireland	Padraig Flynn	Fianna Fáil
Budget	Germany	Peter Schmidhuber	CSU
?	Italy	Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi	?
Agricultural Commissioner	Luxembourg	René Steichen	?
Competition	United Kingdom	Sir Leon Brittan	Conservative

[edit] Key

The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:

affiliation	number of commissioners (1st term)	second term	third term
right leaning / conservative	?	?	3
left leaning / socialist	?	?	4
liberal	?	?	1
other / unknown	?	?	11

[edit] See also

• Santer Commission
• Prodi Commission
• Barroso Commission

[edit] References

• EU Press release (1988). "Responsibilities of the members of the new commission". Retrieved Mar. 24, 2005.

[edit] External links

• First Delors Commission
• Second Delors Commission
• Third Delors Commission

Preceded by: Thorn Commission

European Commission

Succeeded by: Santer Commission