DG for Parliamentary Research Services

Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services

The Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services provides Members with independent, objective and authoritative analysis of, and research on, policy issues relating to the European Union, in order to assist them in their parliamentary work.

The DG's four Directorates provide the following services to Members, parliamentary committees and the Institution as a whole:

responding to specific requests from individual Members for information, analysis and research in the policy fields covered by the European Union;
providing briefing notes and other analysis and research for Members collectively on policies and issues in these fields;
contributing on-line content in these fields for use as appropriate on the Parliament's external/internal websites;
maintaining on-line and paper collections of key published material in these fields for access by Members and staff of the Parliament;
offering a wide range of on-site and online library services, including management of reading rooms and collections, access to and training in information databases, and provision of intranet and internet services for Members and the public;
responding to citizens’ enquiries;
providing a wide range of specific ex-ante and ex-post impact assessment services to parliamentary committees, together with assessment of the added value of future or current EU policies, and appraisal of policy options in the fields of science and technology.

Director-General

Anders RASMUSSEN
- Director-General
- Since 1 November 2022, Anders Rasmussen has been Deputy Secretary-General of the European Parliament, responsible, inter alia, for the planning of legislative coordination within the administration of the European Parliament.
  
  The Deputy Secretary-General is also the Director-General of DG Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS), which provides Members of the European Parliament, its parliamentary committees and the European Parliament as a whole with independent, objective and authoritative analysis of, and research on, policy issues relating to the European Union.
  
  Prior to his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General and Director-General, Anders Rasmussen was, since February 2020, Secretary-General of the Renew Europe Group in the European Parliament, having previously worked as its Deputy Secretary-General. Having joined the European Parliament as a parliamentary assistant in 2000, he became a policy adviser on the LIBE committee for the ELDR and subsequently ALDE group (Renew Europe’s predecessors), before heading ALDE’s parliamentary work unit for over a decade. He holds a master's degree in Political Science from Aarhus University, and a master's degree in European Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science.