Bernd Posselt

Bernd Posselt, MEP

Bernd Posselt (born 04 June 1956, Pforzheim) is a German MEP (1994- ) from Christian Social Union in Bavaria.

Affiliations

Parliamentary Affiliations

Vice-Chair:

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs

07.02.2002 / 30.04.2004 : Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee

Member:

19.07.1994 / 19.07.1999 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group)

21.07.1994 / 15.01.1997 : Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs

17.11.1994 / 11.07.1995 : Delegation for relations with the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia

11.10.1995 / 15.01.1997 : Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee

16.01.1997 / 19.07.1999 : Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee

16.01.1997 / 19.07.1999 : Committee on Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs

20.07.1999 / 19.07.2004 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats

06.10.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs

20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats

21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs

15.09.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Foreign Affairs

14.07.2009 / ... : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats)

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Foreign Affairs

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee

Substitute:

21.07.1994 / 15.01.1997 : Committee on External Economic Relations

16.01.1997 / 19.07.1999 : Committee on External Economic Relations

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy

06.07.2000 / 05.09.2001 : Temporary committee on the Echelon interception system

13.12.2000 / 29.11.2001 : Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy

22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Subcommittee on Human Rights

22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Culture and Education

15.09.2004 / 13.03.2007 : Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Subcommittee on Human Rights

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Culture and Education

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Subcommittee on Human Rights

31.01.2007 / 19.03.2007 : Committee on Culture and Education

14.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe

20.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on International Trade

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Culture and Education

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

• Nothing to declare.

Record of Parliamentary Votes

• Voted in favour of the directive on "establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy" (A5-0027/2000). The directive covers all water management aspects in order to achieve a 'good status' of all waters by 2015.
• Voted in favour of the directive on "national emission ceilings for certain atmospheric pollutants" (A5-0063/2000). The amendment allows setting less ambitious national emission ceilings for sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), ammonia (NH3) and volatile organic compounds (VOC), which would result in more damage to human health and the environment.
• Voted in favour of the Commission White Paper on "Strategy for a future Chemicals Policy" (A5-0356/2001). The amendment helps avoid the necessary precautionary approach towards some chemical substances that are not proven to be completely safe.
• Voted against the directive on "waste electrical and electronic equipment" (A5-0100/2002). The amendment sets higher reuse and recycling rates for IT and telecommunication equipment. Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.
• Voted against the regulation concerning "traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms and traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically modified organisms" (A5-0229/2002). The amendment allows customers the right to choose GM free food.
• Voted against the report towards a "thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides" (A5-0061/2003). The amendment proposes to ban or severely restrict use of pesticides in areas around sources of drinking water and nature protected zones.
• Voted against the directive on "environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage" (A5-0145/2003). According to the amendment, polluters have to pay for environmental clean-up, and it supports an EU-wide regime which makes polluters liable for the damage they cause to wildlife, water and land.
• Voted in favour of the directive on restructuring the "Community framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity" (A5-0302/2003). The amendment aims at giving tax benefits to environmentally friendly sources of energy, which would make them cheaper and more competitive to conventional (more polluting) sources of energy. It also gives tax benefits to environmentally friendly uses of energy for transport, for instance trains. Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.
• Voted against the amendment on Bulgaria’s progress towards accession (A5-0105/2004). The report objects to extending the life of the nuclear power stations in Bulgaria.

Election Campaign 2009

Bernd Posselt has not yet pledged to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign:

• to provide leadership in lobbying transparency and ethics,
• to provide leadership in reforming financial architecture,
• to promote a full-scale rethink of the EU trade policy,
• to promote corporate accountability.

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Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Editorial assistant (1974-1976).
• Newspaper editor (1976-1978).
• Freelance journalist, parliamentary assistant, press spokesman and Europe correspondent for dailies and weeklies (1978-1994).
• Chairman, München-Moosach CSU and District Vice-Chairman (1993-1997).
• Member of the Munich CSU District Executive (since 1993).
• Member of the CSU Executive (since 2000).
• Federal Chairman of the Sudetendeutschen Landsmannschaft (since 2000).
• Regional Chairman, Union of Deportees, Bavaria (since 1997).
• Founder (1975) and Federal Chairman (until 1990) of Paneuropa-Jugend Germany.
• Board member, international Pan-European Union (since 1976).
• President of Paneuropa Union Germany (since 1998).
• Member of the European Parliament (since 1994).
• Vice-Chairman, Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2002).
• Vice-Chairman, EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-2004).
• Member of the Temporary Committee on human genetics (2000-2001).
• In the Intergroup on Minority Languages: Chairman (1996-1998); Vice-Chairman (since 2004).
• Member of the diocesan council of the archdiocese of Munich (1996-2005).
• Member of the coordinating council of the German-Czech Dialogue Forum (since 1998).
• Order of Merit, Federal Republic of Germany (1999).
• Pleter Order of the Republic of Croatia (1999).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

10E261

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45232

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49232

Email:

bernd.posselt AT europarl.europa.eu

mail AT bernd-posselt.de

Website:

http://www.bernd-posselt.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Bernd Posselt, 06 December 2008, accessed 23 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernd Posselt, accessed 23 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Bernd Posselt, accessed 02 December 2010.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 23 March 2009.