DG for the Presidency

Directorate-General for the Presidency

The Directorate-General for the Presidency is at the heart of Parliament’s activities and has a crucial role to play from the time when a procedure is launched in Parliament and until its conclusion. In addition, it carries out a number of functions on behalf of the President.

The Directorate-General is mainly responsible for:

work associated with Parliament's political activities involving the organisation of, and the follow-up to the plenary sittings, receipt and referral of legislative proposals and other documents, Members' activities, tabling desk, plenary records and Members' administration, through the work of the Directorate for the Plenary; Plenary Records and Members' administration, trough the work of the Directorate for the Plenary;
assisting Members with the drafting of legislative texts and amendments and, under the responsibility of the President, carrying out the legal-linguistic finalisation of acts, through the work of the Directorate for Legislative Acts;
interinstitutional relations, legislative coordination (planning of the Plenary) and transparency (public access to documents and Transparency Register);
other essential aspects of running a large organisation, such as: protocol; strategy and innovation issues; human, financial and IT resources; internal communication; document management (official mail, classified information, archives, etc.).

Director-General

Markus WINKLER
- 10 July 1969, D-Mannheim
- Education:
  
  January 1995 - October 1996:
  Master of Arts, Political Science, German Philology
  
  September 1990 - April 1992:
  University of Mannheim, Germany
  
  Professional experience:
  
  October 1996 - January 2003:
  Parliamentary Assistant to Martin Schulz, MEP
  
  February 2003 - June 2004:
  Official, Federal Ministry of Health and Social Security, Bonn
  
  July 2004 - February 2011:
  Head of the Leader's Office, S&D Group in the European Parliament
  
  March 2011 - January 2012:
  Director for Relations with the Political Groups, European Parliament
  
  January 2012 - March 2014:
  Head of President's Cabinet, European Parliament (first mandate of Martin Schulz)
  
  April 2014 - July 2014:
  Director-General, DG Presidency, European Parliament
  
  July 2014 - August 2016:
  Head of President's Cabinet, European Parliament (second mandate of Martin Schulz)
  
  September 2016 -
  Director-General, DG Presidency, European Parliament
  
  Novembre 2016 -
  Deputy Secretary-General, European Parliament