Its areas of responsibility relate to industry, especially technology-intensive manufacturing, information technology, and telecommunications.
It has oversight duties in relation to the Joint Research Centre and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, as well as similar projects.
The Paris Agreement and, more recently, the launch of the European Green Deal have put climate change and the energy transition center-stage.
Policies to support clean technologies such as renewable energy or hydrogen have been advanced through the committee.
As of March 2014 ITRE committee is the lead charge for regulations dealing with "European single market for electronic communications".