European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
- Type
- Government body
- Place
- European Union
- Last checked
- 2026-09-22
- Next check due
- 2027-03-21
Named seats
- Borys Budka (EPP, Poland, Koalicja Obywatelska) — chair
Official, up-to-date list of members Verified
Ways to reach them
- Committee pages and documents
- ITRE secretariat emailnot published
- Homepage
- Public submission route
What it does
Opinion-giving committee on AI files, with lead responsibility for industrial policy, research (Horizon Europe), telecommunications and energy — including the compute and data-centre dimension of AI, the AI Continent Action Plan, AI gigafactories and EuroHPC. On the AI Act it gave an opinion rather than leading. Co-legislative power on files within its own competence.
Its AI responsibilities
AI as industrial and research policy: compute and supercomputing capacity, the AI gigafactories and Cloud/AI infrastructure agenda, Horizon Europe and FP10 research funding for AI, semiconductors, energy demand of data centres, and EU technological sovereignty. ITRE is the opinion-giving or associated committee on most AI files that IMCO or LIBE lead, and lead on the infrastructure side.
Its powers
advise
Honest assessment
The least useful of the three committees for AI risk input and the most useful for AI infrastructure and compute policy. Same rapporteur-centric access model. If your concern is compute governance, chip supply or data-centre siting in the EU, ITRE is the committee; if it is model risk, it is not.
Current business
Cloud and AI Development Act (2026/0138(COD)) — ITRE is heavily engaged alongside IMCO; AI compute and gigafactory funding; energy consumption of AI data centres.
Public route
Correspondence with rapporteurs and shadows; ITRE secretariat at itre-secretariat@europarl.europa.eu; public hearings; PETI petition.
Format rules
No formal limits or portal. Position papers conventionally 2–4 pages. Not published by Parliament.
Key people
Vice-Chairs: Tsvetelina Penkova (S&D, BG); Elena Donazzan (ECR, IT); Giorgio Gori (S&D, IT); Yvan Verougstraete (Renew, BE).
Notes
ITRE's AI work is growth- and sovereignty-framed; safety arguments land poorly here unless recast as strategic-autonomy or resilience arguments.
Research note
VERIFIED 2026-09-22 from the official ITRE member list PDF at europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/itre/home/members/pdf. (The HTML members page is bot-blocked; the PDF export is the reliable official source.)