Committees and delegations

Christophe BAY holds the committee and delegation roles listed below in the 10th term (2024–2029).

Committees

• Committee on International Trade (INTA): Member, since 2024-10-10. Attended 23 of 28 committee meetings held during the membership
• Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE): Substitute, since 2024-10-09. Attended 5 of 32 committee meetings held during the membership
• Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE): Substitute, since 2025-01-23. Attended 0 of 34 committee meetings held during the membership

Delegations

• Delegation to the EU-Türkiye Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-TR): Member, since 2024-10-10
• Delegation for relations with South Africa (D-ZA): Substitute, since 2024-10-09
• Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia (DSAS): Substitute, since 2024-10-09

Reports and opinions

Reports as shadow rapporteur

All 4, most recent first.

• 2026-05-19 A10-0148/2026 REPORT on the role of trade in strengthening the EU’s economic security (INTA)
• 2026-04-27 A10-0122/2026 REPORT on opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade (INTA)
• 2025-12-09 A10-0254/2025 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council implementing the bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural products (INTA)
• 2025-04-10 A10-0061/2025 REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the screening of foreign investments in the Union and repealing Regulation (EU) 2019/452 of the European Parliament and of the Council (INTA)

Opinions as shadow rapporteur

All 1, most recent first.

• 2026-04-09 SEDE_AD(2026)782488 OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695 (SEDE)

Amendments by procedure

Procedures with the most amendments Christophe BAY has tabled as author or co-author in the 10th term. Amendments are counted per procedure reference.

• 2025/0360(COD): 249 amendments, latest 2026-07-27 (ITRE)
• 2025/0399(COD): 104 amendments, latest 2026-05-20 (ITRE)
  EP document title: OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2022/869
• 2026/0212(COD): 84 amendments, latest 2026-10-01 (ITRE)
• 2024/0017(COD): 83 amendments, latest 2025-02-04 (INTA)
  EP document title: REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the screening of foreign investments in the Union and repealing Regulation (EU) 2019/452 of the European Parliament and of the Council
• 2025/0420(COD): 56 amendments, latest 2026-06-18 (ITRE)

Questions, motions and explanations of vote

Records as published on the European Parliament website, including co-signed texts. Each list says how far its records reach.

Written questions

Most recent 20 of 44. Records up to 2026-09-09.

• 2026-06-18 New Caledonian nickel industry and Europeans’ strategic autonomy (E-10-2026-002537)
• 2026-06-02 Risks associated with tariff quota management system in EU-Mercosur agreement (E-10-2026-002238)
• 2026-05-12 EU-Mercosur agreement: what guarantees are in place to protect French and European farmers from unfair competition? (E-10-2026-001975)
• 2025-12-23 Negotiations on a security and defence partnership with Australia (E-10-2025-005065)
• 2025-12-01 Regulatory barriers to critical raw material extraction in the EU (E-10-2025-004738)
• 2025-11-25 Plan to set up a European intelligence service under the authority of the President of the Commission (E-10-2025-004681)
• 2025-11-25 Public funding for far-left associations working to integrate migrants (E-10-2025-004684)
• 2025-11-04 Chinese tariffs on EU agri-food products (E-10-2025-004311)
• 2025-10-22 Christians are being persecuted and the Commission is doing nothing about it (E-10-2025-004162)
• 2025-10-10 Deterioration in the rule of law and political persecution in Brazil (E-10-2025-003990)
• 2025-10-06 Civil Society Europe, an anti-police and immigrationist organisation pumped full of public money (E-10-2025-003921)
• 2025-10-02 Decline of the European textile industry in the face of unfair foreign competition (E-10-2025-003840)
• 2025-08-25 Respect for human rights in South Africa (E-10-2025-003278)
• 2025-07-28 Creation of a European democracy bank with a view to achieving political equality (E-10-2025-003118)
• 2025-06-26 Potential electricity grid imbalance due to intermittent supply from renewables (E-10-2025-002586)
• 2025-06-12 Financing of ‘The European Qur’an’ project (E-10-2025-002376)
• 2025-05-22 Sorbonne declaration: the EU prefers US researchers (E-10-2025-002058)
• 2025-05-21 Message encryption (E-10-2025-002044)
• 2025-05-06 Mercosur agreement: Agen prunes sector at risk! (E-10-2025-001813)
• 2025-05-05 Combating the misuse of national symbols on food packaging (E-10-2025-001805)

Questions for oral answer

All 8, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.

• 2026-07-17 Adapting EU energy performance policies in the light of extreme heat episodes (O-10-2026-000032)
• 2026-04-28 War in the Strait of Hormuz: measures to shield European agriculture from rising fertiliser prices (O-10-2026-000022)
• 2026-02-26 Inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood on the EU list of terrorist organisations (O-10-2026-000009)
• 2026-01-26 Reporters Without Borders, a biased NGO heavily subsidised by Brussels (O-10-2026-000003)
• 2025-11-20 Manipulation of the Erasmus+ programme as a new channel for immigration and exclusion of Hungarian universities from the programme (O-10-2025-000043)
• 2025-10-31 Returns to Afghanistan: response to Member States’ call for an effective migration policy (O-10-2025-000039)
• 2025-09-10 Commission steamrolling ahead with Mercosur agreement (O-10-2025-000027)
• 2025-06-10 ‘Choose Europe for Science’ plan and intrusion of wokism at universities (O-10-2025-000021)

Motions for resolutions

All 3, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-11.

• 2026-01-14 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION seeking an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Common Market of the South, the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, of the other part, and the proposed Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union, of the one part, and the Common Market (B-10-2026-0061)
• 2025-10-17 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation of 8 July 2025 supplementing Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels (B-10-2025-0464)
• 2025-09-12 MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION (B-10-2025-0400)

Individual motions for resolutions

All 2, most recent first. Records up to 2026-06-11.

• 2025-06-12 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on combating the establishment of transnational Islamist networks in Europe (B-10-2025-0279)
• 2025-01-13 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the application of Directive 2003/88/EC (WTD) to the role of voluntary firefighters (B-10-2025-0052)

Written explanations of vote

20 of 289, in alphabetical order. The EP lists explanations of vote without dates.

• 2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget
• 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text
• 2025 Commission report on Moldova
• 2025 Commission report on Serbia
• 2025 Commission report on Ukraine
• 2026 budgetary procedure: joint text
• A coherent tax framework for the EU's financial sector
• A new legislative framework for products that is fit for the digital and sustainable transition
• A new strategy for media literacy and digital learning
• Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups
• Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024
• Addressing impunity through EU sanctions, including the EU Global Human Rights sanctions regime (so-called “EU Magnitsky Act”)
• Addressing subcontracting chains and the role of intermediaries in order to protect workers’ rights
• Administrative cooperation in the field of taxation
• Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap
• Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data
• Air passenger rights
• Air passenger rights
• Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Amending Regulation 2024/792 establishing the Ukraine Facility

Comparison with group and country means

Counts of Christophe BAY set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the Patriots for Europe group and of the Members from France. The word in brackets says whether the count is higher than, lower than or equal to that mean.

Means are taken over all tracked Members of the 10th term, former Members included. Counts are raw and not adjusted for mandate length.