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There were in all three Delors Commissions - the mandates of the European Commission respectively from 1985 to 1988; from 1989 to 1992; and from 1993 to 1994. Each of these Commissions was presided over by Jacques Delors, the 8th President of the Commission and the only person re-appointed by the European Council to more than one term as president. The Third Delors Commission was also the first Commission of the European Union (since the Maastricht Treaty came into force in 1993) It was succeeded by the Santer Commission.

Contents 1 Achievements 2 Members 2.1 Delors I 2.2 Delors II 2.3 Delors III 2.4 Key 2.5 Secretary-General of the Commission 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

The European Commissions led by Jacques Delors are regarded by many as the most successful in the European Union's history. They gave a new momentum to the process of European integration, notably in that they laid the groundwork (and did much of the political persuasion required) for the signature of the Single European Act in February 1986 and the launch of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in the Treaty of Maastricht (1992).

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The three Delors Commissions (generally known as "Delors I", Delors II" and "Delors III") had considerable continuity of membership and political balance, but there were nonetheless differences.

This Commission served from 1985 to 1989, although the Spanish and Portuguese members only joined as from their countries' membership of the European Communities on 1 January 1986.

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	Socialist Party
Credit and Investments, Financial Instruments, small and medium-sized enterprises	Spain	Abel Matutes (as from 5 January 1986)	People's Party
Economic Affairs and employment (until 5 January 1986)	Germany	Alois Pfeiffer until 01/081987; Peter Schmidhuber as from 22/09/1987	CSU
Fisheries	Portugal	António Cardoso e Cunha	Social Democratic Party
Institutional reforms, information policy, culture and tourism	Italy	Carlo Ripa di Meana	PSI
Mediterranean policy and North-South relations	France	Claude Cheysson	Socialist Party
Internal market, tax law and customs	United Kingdom	Lord Cockfield	Conservative Party
Agriculture and Fisheries	Netherlands	Frans Andriessen	KVP
Relations with the European Parliament, regional policy and consumer protection	Greece	Grigoris Varfis
Budget, Financial Control, personnel and administration	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
Industry, information technology, science and research and vice-president	Germany	Karl-Heinz Narjes	CDU
Cooperation and development affairs, enlargement and vice-president	Italy	Lorenzo Natali	DC
Social affairs, employment and education	Spain	Manuel Marin (as from 5 January 1986)	PSOE
Energy & Euratom	Luxembourg	Nicolas Mosar	CSP
Competition; social affairs and education (until 5 January 1986)	Ireland	Peter Sutherland	Fine Gael
Environment, consumer protection and transport	United Kingdom	Stanley Clinton Davis	Labour
External relations and trade policy	Belgium	Willy De Clercq	Liberal

This Commission served from 1989 to 1992.

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	PS
Mediterranean policy, Latin America	Spain	Abel Matutes	People's Party
Environment, Nuclear Safety, Civil Protection	Italy	Carlo Ripa di Meana	Sinistra Verde
Regional Policies	United Kingdom	Bruce Millan	Labour
Taxation and Customs Union	France	Christiane Scrivener	Republican Party
Science, research and development, telecommunications, innovation	Italy	Filippo Maria Pandolfi	DC
External relations and trade policy	Netherlands	Frans Andriessen	KVP
Economic and financial affairs, coordination of structural funds / vice-president	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
Energy, Euratom, small businesses; Staff and translation	Portugal	Antonio Cardoso e Cunha	PSD
Audiovisual and cultural affairs	Luxembourg	Jean Dondelinger	?
Transport, consumer protection	Belgium	Karel van Miert	SP
Cooperation and development, fisheries	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
Internal market and industrial affairs	Germany	Martin Bangemann	FDP
Budget	Germany	Peter Schmidhuber	CSU
Competition, Financial Institutions	United Kingdom	Sir Leon Brittan	Conservative
Employment, industrial relations and social affairs	Greece	Vasso Papandreou	PASOK
Agriculture and rural development	Ireland	Ray MacSharry	Fianna Fáil

This Commission served from 1993 to 1994. It was the first Commission of the European Union, with the Maastricht Treaty coming into force. Its short tenure was designed to bring the mandates of the Commission into line with those of the European Parliament.

portfolio	nominating member state	commissioner	party affiliation
President	France	Jacques Delors	PS
Internal market and industrial affairs, ICT (vice-president)	Germany	Martin Bangemann	FDP
External economic affairs and trade policy (vice-president)	United Kingdom	Sir Leon Brittan	Conservative
Economic and financial affairs (vice-president)	Denmark	Henning Christophersen	Venstre
Cooperation and development, humanitarian aid (vice-president)	Spain	Manuel Marin	PSOE
Competition (vice-president)	Belgium	Karel van Miert	SP
Science, research, technological development and education (vice-president)	Italy	Antonio Ruberti	PSI
Environment, fisheries	Greece	Ioannis Paleokrassas	ND
Agriculture and rural development	Luxembourg	René Steichen	Christian Social Party
Transport and Energy	Spain	Abel Matutes (until April 1994); Marcelino Oreja after April 1994	People's Party
Institutional Reform, internal market, enterprise	Italy	Raniero Vanni d'Archirafi	unknown
Taxation, Customs Union and Consumer Policies	France	Christiane Scrivener	Liberal
Budget and Financial Control, Cohesion Fund	Germany	Peter Schmidhuber	CSU
Social Affairs and Employment	Ireland	Padraig Flynn	Fianna Fáil
Relations with Parliament, Culture and Audiovisual	Portugal	João de Deus Pinheiro	PSD/PP
External Relations and Enlargement	Netherlands	Hans van den Broek	CDA
Regional Policy and Cohesion	United Kingdom	Bruce Millan	Labour

The colour of the row indicates the approximate political leaning of the office holder using the following scheme:

affiliation	number of commissioners (1st term)	second term	third term
right leaning / conservative	8	6	7
left leaning / socialist	6	7	6
liberal	2	3	3
other / unknown	1	1	1

The Secretary General of the Commission throughout the three Delors Commissions was David Williamson.

• Santer Commission
• Prodi Commission
• Barroso Commission

• European Commission archive of the Delors I Commission. "[1]" Retrieved 17 March 2007.
• EU Press release (1988). "Responsibilities of the members of the new commission". Retrieved Mar. 24, 2005.
• EU Press release (1992). "Composition of the new Commission". Retrieved 17 March 2007.

• First Delors Commission
• Second Delors Commission
• Third Delors Commission

Preceded by Thorn Commission

European Commission

Succeeded by Santer Commission

European Commissions
Hallstein (1958), Rey (1967), Malfatti (1970), Mansholt (1972), Ortoli (1973), Jenkins (1977), Thorn (1981), Delors (1985), Santer (1995), Marín (1999), Prodi (1999), Barroso (2004)