Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez

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Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, MEP

Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez (born 30 January 1940, Madrid) is an MEP (1999- ) from the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE).

Affiliations

Parliamentary Affiliations

Vice-President:

06.02.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)

16.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Parliament's Bureau

16.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : European Parliament

14.07.2009 / ... : European Parliament

Vice-Chair:

15.02.2001 / 14.01.2002 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)

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

Member:

20.07.1999 / 19.07.2004 : Group of the Party of European Socialists

21.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Development and Cooperation

14.09.1999 / 14.02.2001 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU)

17.01.2002 / 19.07.2004 : Committee on Development and Cooperation

20.07.2004 / 13.07.2009 : Socialist Group in the European Parliament

21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Petitions

21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Development

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Petitions

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Development

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Petitions

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Regional Development

14.07.2009 / ... : Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

14.07.2009 / ... : Parliament's Bureau

16.07.2009 / ... : Committee on Petitions

16.07.2009 / 07.09.2010 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

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

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

07.10.2010 / ... : Committee on Development

Substitute:

22.07.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

08.10.1999 / 14.01.2002 : Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee

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

17.01.2002 / 29.01.2002 : Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

06.02.2002 / 30.04.2004 : Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee

21.07.2004 / 14.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs

15.09.2004 / 31.12.2006 : Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee

15.01.2007 / 30.01.2007 : Committee on Foreign Affairs

31.01.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Committee on Development

15.03.2007 / 13.07.2009 : Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America

16.07.2009 / 06.10.2010 : Committee on Development

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

16.09.2009 / ... : Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

07.09.2010 / ... : Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee

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 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 against 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 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 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 in favour of 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 in favour of 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 in favour of 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.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Studied in Madrid, Toulouse and Vienna.
• Gold Medal of Comenius University, Bratislava (Slovakia).
• Honorary doctor of the universities of Moscow (Russia), Cluj (Romania) and Aberdeen (United Kingdom).
• Deputy Secretary General (1964) and Vice-President (1966) of IUSY.
• Secretary-General of the IFM-SEI (1966).
• Responsible for trade union training at ICFTU (1973).
• Member of the UGT Provincial executive committee for Ciudad Real (1980).
• PSOE Secretary-General for Castile and La Mancha (1981).
• Member of the PSOE Federal Executive (1987).
• Member of the Congress of Deputies for Ciudad Real (1977-1999).
• Vice-President of the WEU Assembly (1986-1996).
• Vice-President (1983-1992) and President (1992-1996) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
• Member of the European Parliament (since 1999).

• President of the Interparliamentary Union (1997-1999).
• Vice-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (since 2001).

• Order of Constitutional Merit (1988). Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1996). Grand Cross of Isabel the Catholic (1999) and other decorations from over 30 countries (15 from Member States of the European Union).

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

12G206

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45269

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49269

Email:

miguelangel.martinez AT europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.psoe-pe.org

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• European Parliament, Declaración relativa a los intereses económicos de los diputados: Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, 04 December 2008, accessed 30 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, accessed 30 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, accessed 01 December 2010.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 30 April 2009.