Hans-Peter Mayer

Hans-Peter Mayer, MEP

Hans-Peter Mayer (born 05 May 1944, Riedlingen) is an MEP (1999- ) from Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

Affiliations

Parliamentary Affiliations

Member:

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

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Petitions

06.10.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Delegation for relations with South-east Europe

05.10.2000 / 14.01.2002 : Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America and Mexico

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs

07.02.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe

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 Legal Affairs

15.09.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Legal Affairs

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Legal Affairs

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

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly

Substitute:

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy

16.12.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Delegation to the EU-Latvia Joint Parliamentary Committee

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market

22.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

15.09.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation to the EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee

15.09.2004 / 17.01.2006 : Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

18.01.2006 / 12.06.2006 : Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

21.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya)

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Professional Activities:

• Lawyer

Paid Functions or Activities:

• Lawyer

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 against 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 in favour of the report on "Community guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network" (A5-0135/2002). The Trans-European Network of Transport (TEN-T) is a network of so-called 'transport corridors' through Europe. This amendment calls for a full Strategic Environmental Assessment of these transport corridors and calls on the Commission to improve methods for analysing the environmental and economic impact of the TEN-T.
• 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 against 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

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• 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

• Second state law examination (1975).
• Dr. jur. utr. (1975).
• PhD (1990).
• Lawyer (since 1975).
• Professor of Law and Administration (1980-1990).
• Rector of the Catholic Vocational College of North Germany (1990-1991).
• State Secretary in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology, Saxony-Anhalt (1991-1994).
• Municipal councillor in Bad Waldsee (1975-1980).
• Chairman of Vechta district of Europa Union (1984-1991).
• Land Chairman of the economic council of the CDU of Saxony-Anhalt and the Federal Commission on European policy (1995-1999).
• Chairman of the Land specialist committee of the CDU of Oldenburg on development of the Weser-Ems region in Europe (since 1995).
• Member of the European Parliament (since 1999).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

15E154

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 47994

Email:

hans-peter.mayer AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.cdu-csu-ep.de

http://www.europa-mayer.de

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Erklärung der finanziellen Interessen der Mitglieder: Hans-Peter Mayer, 10 December 2008, accessed 22 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Hans-Peter Mayer, accessed 22 March 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Hans-Peter Mayer, accessed 01 December 2010.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 22 March 2009.