Committees and delegations

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

Committees

• Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 0 of 38 committee meetings held during the membership
• Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC): Substitute, since 2025-11-12. Attended 1 of 20 committee meetings held during the membership
• Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 5 of 37 committee meetings held during the membership

Delegations

• Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP): Member, since 2024-09-19
• Delegation for relations with Mercosur (DMER): Substitute, since 2024-09-19
• Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary Assembly (DPAC): Member, since 2024-09-19

Reports and opinions

Reports as shadow rapporteur

Most recent 5 of 6.

• 2025-02-04 A10-0009/2025 REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the adoption by the Union of the Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty between the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States (INTA, ITRE)
• 2024-12-05 A10-0023/2024 RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the accession of the Kingdom of Tonga to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part (INTA)
• 2024-12-05 A10-0024/2024 RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the accession of Niue to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part (INTA)
• 2024-12-05 A10-0025/2024 RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the accession of Tuvalu to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part (INTA)
• 2024-10-22 A10-0011/2024 REPORT on the draft Council directive on Faster and Safer Relief of Excess Withholding Taxes (ECON)

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

All 14, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-09.

• 2025-09-01 European Court of Auditors special report 11/2025 on Transparency of EU funding granted to NGOs (E-10-2025-003339)
• 2025-07-28 German citizen abducted in Somalia (E-10-2025-003119)
• 2025-07-17 Surveillance of critical media professionals by the German constitutional protection authorities (E-10-2025-002952)
• 2025-07-15 German export model under pressure – securing the manufacturing location instead of offshoring production (E-10-2025-002891)
• 2025-07-15 Protecting traditional retailers from online platforms from third countries (E-10-2025-002892)
• 2025-06-20 NGO funding through the LIFE programme (E-10-2025-002493)
• 2025-05-28 Protecting domestic agriculture from imports produced to lower standards (E-10-2025-002145)
• 2025-05-21 Abuse of competences through regulations (E-10-2025-002015)
• 2025-05-21 EU ‘communication’ used as a PR tool (E-10-2025-002016)
• 2025-05-21 ‘Emergency powers’ of the European Commission (E-10-2025-002030)
• 2025-03-13 CO₂ emission performance standards for cars and vans (Regulation (EU) 2019/631) (E-10-2025-001085)
• 2024-12-20 Assessment of the conduct in office of Stephan Kramer, President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia, with regard to the rule of law and democracy (E-10-2024-003070)
• 2024-12-12 Foreseeable overburdening of the German asylum administration owing to the return of Syrians in view of the implementation of EU law and compliance with the rule of law (E-10-2024-002900)
• 2024-11-12 Question on penalties to be imposed on manufacturers from 2025 under the Regulation on CO2 emissions from light-duty vehicles (E-10-2024-002503)

Questions for oral answer

All 3, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.

• 2025-09-17 GPS interference on the flight of Commission President von der Leyen – media disinformation and distorted facts (O-10-2025-000030)
• 2024-10-04 Irreplaceability of vehicles powered by internal combustion engines in emergency situations (O-10-2024-000012)
• 2024-10-01 Revision of the ban on selling CO₂-emitting cars beyond 2035 (O-10-2024-000011)

Motions for resolutions

All 1, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-11.

• 2025-07-02 MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION (B-10-2025-0319)

Individual motions for resolutions

All 4, most recent first. Records up to 2026-06-11.

• 2026-01-22 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the power outage in Berlin and on the protection of critical national infrastructure (B-10-2026-0097)
• 2025-04-08 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on a joint and strong response to the Federal Republic of Germany’s departure from financial stability (B-10-2025-0241)
• 2025-03-18 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on political repression and fundamental rights in Bulgaria (B-10-2025-0198)
• 2024-12-17 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on financial and organisational support for Member States to repatriate Syrian nationals (B-10-2024-0238)

Written explanations of vote

All 2, in alphabetical order. The EP lists explanations of vote without dates.

• Deforestation Regulation: provisions relating to the date of application
• UN Climate Change Conference 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (COP29)

Comparison with group and country means

Counts of René AUST set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the ESN group and of the Members from Germany. 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.