Exhaust gas recirculation valve

In the wall portion of a valve housing (1) deposed in connection with an engine block (40), a cooling-water-taking-out passage (44) that has a cooling water inlet port (44a) having an opening on the to-be-connected surface (1a) of the valve housing (1) to the engine block (40), and that takes out the cooling water coming from a cooling water passage (41) of the engine block (40) is integrally formed, and thereby the cooling water inlet port (44a) is configured to be connected with the cooling water passage (41).