On 10 September 2019, von der Leyen introduced the design structure of the body and the distribution of the portfolios to 27 Commissioners.^[1]

The European Commission for the five-year period 2019-2024 has 27 members, consisting of one President (Ursula von der Leyen), three Executive Vice-Presidents (Frans Timmermans, Margrethe Vestager, Valdis Dombrovskis), five other Vice-Presidents including the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (Josep Borrel), and 18 other Commissioners. Thanks to coordination between von der Leyen and the Member States she delivered a gender-balanced College made up of 13 women and 14 men.

The Vice-Presidents will coordinate the work on the most important cross-cutting issues to meet the policy priorities. The three Executive Vice-Presidents will hold a dual function. Not only will they coordinate a horizontal agenda, to allow for transparency in all the portfolios, i.e. in finance, climate, or digital, but they will also have a specific portfolio and a relevant Directorate-General (DG) at their disposal. The rest of the five Vice-Presidents will only use the capacities of the DGs of other Commissioners. Commissioner-designate Johannes Hahn will be in charge of ‘Budget and Administration’ and will report directly to the President of the Commission.

^[1] In comparison to the Junckers’ Commission 2019, there is one Commissioner less as the United Kingdom leaving the Union did not nominate its candidate in prospects of Brexit.

Policy Paper – Kristina Hrbková, October 2019

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