Dagmar Roth-Behrendt
Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (born 21 February 1953, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German lawyer who served as Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the SPD ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group.
Political career
Roth-Behrendt was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2014. From 2004 until 2007 and from 2009 to 2012 she served as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, first under the leadership of President Josep Borrell and later Jerzy Buzek.
Throughout her time in parliament, Roth-Behrendt served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In 1997, she chaired the temporary committee of inquiry into the European Commission's dealing with a BSE outbreak.[1] She later served as rapporteur on the EU medical device regulation.[2][3]
In addition to her committee assignments, Roth-Behrendt was part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand from 1994 until 2004. In 2013, she was one of six candidates for the post of European Ombudsman; the role eventually went to Emily O’Reilly instead.[4]
Life after politics
Since 2015, Roth-Behrendt has been serving as Special Adviser to Development Cooperation to European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis on reforming the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE).[5][6] From 2016 to 2022, she also served on the Commission's Independent Ethical Committee.[7][8][9]
Recognition
Personal life
Roht-Behrendt is married to former European Commission official Horst Reichenbach.
References
- ^ Leyla Linton (November 19, 1997), MEPs appeased by BSE reforms European Voice.
- ^ Dave Keating (October 22, 2013), MEPs back stricter scrutiny of medical implants European Voice.
- ^ Ben Hirschler (June 26, 2013), Industry fears investment drain as EU weighs new medtech rules Reuters.
- ^ Toby Vogel (May 21, 2013), Candidates for EU ombudsman announced European Voice.
- ^ Special Advisers to the President, Vice-Presidents and Commissioners of the European Commission European Commission.
- ^ Simon Taylor (March 9, 2015), European Commission special advisers European Voice.
- ^ Commission decision: Appointments to the Ad Hoc Ethical Committee 2016 - C(2016) 4507 European Commission, 11 July 2016.
- ^ Quentin Ariès (February 28, 2017), Watchdog to investigate handling of Barroso’s Goldman move Politico Europe.
- ^ Sarah Wheaton (21 July 2022), Revolving door jam Politico Europe.
External links
- Web site (in German)
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- Lissy Gröner
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- Magdalene Hoff
- Karin Junker
- Heinz Fritz Köhler
- Annemarie Kuhn (from 22 December 1990)
- Rolf Linkohr
- Günter Lüttge
- Gepa Maibaum
- Karl-Heinrich Mihr
- Leyla Onur
- Helwin Peter
- Johannes Wilhelm Peters
- Willi Piecyk (from 11 May 1992)
- Christa Randzio-Plath
- Dieter Rogalla
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- Mechtild Rothe
- Willi Rothley
- Jannis Sakellariou
- Heinke Salisch
- Detlev Samland
- Dieter Schinzel
- Gerhard Schmid
- Barbara Schmidbauer
- Barbara Simons
- Günter Topmann
- Kurt Vittinghoff
- Thomas von der Vring
- Gerd Walter (until 7 May 1992)
- Beate Weber-Schuerholz (until 14 December 1990)
- Klaus Wettig
- Siegbert Alber
- Reimer Böge
- Ursula Braun-Moser (from 15 January 1990)
- Elmar Brok
- Karl-Heinz Florenz
- Honor Funk
- Helga Haller von Hallerstein (from 27 December 1993)
- Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt
- Georg Jarzembowski (from 5 September 1991)
- Hedwig Keppelhoff-Wiechert
- Egon Klepsch
- Brigitte Langenhagen (from November 25 1990)
- Horst Langes
- Gerd Ludwig Lemmer
- Marlene Lenz
- Rudolf Luster
- Kurt Malangré
- Winfried Menrad
- Friedrich Merz
- Werner Münch (until November 19 1990)
- Doris Pack
- Hartmut Perschau (until 10 July 1991)
- Hans-Gert Pöttering
- Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl
- Günter Rinsche
- Bernhard Sälzer (until 18 December 1993)
- Diemut Theato
- Karl von Wogau
- Axel Zarges (until December 29 1989)
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf
- Hiltrud Breyer
- Birgit Cramon Daiber
- Karl Partsch
- Dorothee Piermont
- Eva-Maria Quistorp
- Claudia Roth
- Wilfried Telkämper
- Reinhold Bocklet (until 24 June 1993)
- Jürgen Brand (from 16 November 1993)
- Ingo Friedrich
- Maren Günther (from 31 August 1993)
- Otto von Habsburg
- Günther Müller (from 4 December 1992 to 6 November 1993)
- Gerd Müller
- Fritz Pirkl (until 19 August 1993)
- Edgar Schiedermeier (from 5 July 1993)
- Ursula Schleicher
- Franz Ludwig Schenk von Stauffenberg (until 30 November 1992)
- Johanna Grund
- Klaus-Peter Köhler
- Harald Neubauer
- Emil Schlee
- Hans-Günter Schodruch
- Franz Schönhuber
- Mechthild von Alemann
- Martin Holzfuss
- Manfred Vohrer
- Rüdiger von Wechmar