The Commissioner for Justice and Commissioner for Equality are posts in the

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. The portfolios of Justice and Equality were previously combined as ''Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality'' under commissioner is

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; however, the two portfolios were split in 2019.

Didier Reynders Didier Reynders (; born 6 August 1958) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR) serving as European Commissioner for Justice since 2019. He held various positions in public institutions before becoming a member of ...

currently serves as Justice Commissioner and

Helena Dalli Helena Dalli (born Helena Abela, 29 September 1962) is a Maltese politician serving as European Commissioner for Equality since 1 December 2019. She is a member of the Labour Party. Career Parliamentary Secretary In 1996, Dalli was electe ...

serves as Equality Commissioner.

Portfolio

The post was created in 2010 by splitting the previous Justice, Freedom and Security portfolio into a justice post (the subject covered here) and a security post: the Commissioner for Home Affairs. This split was made as a concession to the liberals in the

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to gain their support for the second

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. A major innovation of the Juncker Commission is the nomination of a First Vice-President,

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, for Better Regulation, Inter-Institutional Relations, Rule of Law and the

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFR) enshrines certain political, social, and economic rights for European Union (EU) citizens and residents into EU law. It was drafted by the European Convention and solemnly proclaim ...

. His role includes to "guide and coordinate all other Justice and Home Affairs(JHA)-related Commissioners, in particular those of the new DG Justice (

) and the DG Home Affairs (

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)".Carrera, S. and Guild, E. (2014) "The Juncker Commission: A New Start for EU Justice and Home Affairs Policy?", CEPS Essay
/ref> The portfolio of the Commissioner has evolved under the Juncker Commission and renamed into ''Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality''. Major changes are : *"The Commissioner for Justice no longer holds the title f "Commissioner for EU Citizenship"that was used in the previous Commission. ..Other citizenship-related matters regarding ‘communication to citizens’ have been moved from DG Communication and attributed to the new Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Citizenship." *"Issues related to non-discrimination in employment nd the rights of persons with disabilitieshave been removed from DG JUST and placed back under DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion. However, DG JUST still holds responsibility for the wider non-discrimination portfolio." *DG JUST gained competences on issues related to Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility, previously in DG Internal Market and Services (MARKT), and on issues related to Consumer Affairs. Regarding Consumer Affairs, the whole directorate has been transferred from DG Health and Consumers (SANCO) - now DG Health and Food Safety (SANTE), except for Health Technology and Cosmetics issues, for which DG Enterprise and Industry (ENTR) gained responsibility. *The responsibility of Anti-Drug Policy has been transferred to DG Home Affairs (HOME).

List of commissioners

DG Justice and Consumers DG Justice, Freedom and Security (former)

External links

Commissioner's Website

References

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Portfolio

List of commissioners

See also

External links

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