Françoise Grossetête

Françoise Grossetête, MEP

Françoise Grossetête (born 17 May 1946, Lyon) is an MEP for France since 1994. She was elected from Union pour la Démocratie Française (19.07.1994-19.07.1999), liberal conservative Démocratie Libérale (20.07.1999-19.07.2004), and is currently representing Jacques Chirac's Union pour un Mouvement Populaire (since 20.07.2004).

Affiliations

• Member, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
• Member, Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand
• Member, Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
• Substitute, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Paid Functions or Activities:

• Member of the Saint-Étienne Regional Council (since 16 March 2008).

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 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 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.
• Abstained from voting 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

Françoise Grossetête did not pledge to any of the four issues presented by the Election Campaign yet.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

• Degree in public law and political science (1969).
• Higher Certificate in Social and Labour Law (1969).
• Lecturer in law in higher education (1969-1974).
• Parliamentary assistant (1988-1997).
• Federal secretary, Loire Republican Party (1984-1994).
• Member of the Démocratie libérale policy bureau and national secretary for equal opportunities (until 1998).
• National Vice-Chairwoman of the DL party, with responsibility for European and environmental issues (until 2002).
• National secretary of the UMP (since 2002) and Vice-Chairwoman of the Loire UMP Federation (2002).
• Member of Saint-Étienne Municipal Council (1983-2001).
• Second Deputy Mayor of Saint-Etienne (since 2001).
• Member of the Saint-Étienne Métropole Urban Area Community Council (since 2001).
• Member of Rhône-Alpes Regional Council (1986-1998).
• Member of the European Parliament (since 1994) and Vice-Chairwoman of the EPP-ED Group (since 1999).
• Chairwoman of the Pilat Regional Nature Reserve (since 1989).
• Chairwoman of the Loire departmental air quality network (since 1991) and First Vice-Chairwoman of the French Federation of Regional Parks.

Contact

Address:

Parlement européen

Bât. Altiero Spinelli

13E261

60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60

B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Phone:

+32 (0)2 28 45952

Fax

+32 (0)2 28 49952

Email:

francoise.grossetete@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.francoise-grossetete.eu

This article is part of the MEPedia project of Spinwatch.

Resources

• Election Campaign, Françoise Grossetête, accessed 05 June 2009.
• European Parliament, Déclaration des Intérêts financiers des députés: Françoise Grossetête, 06 January 2009, accessed 07 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Françoise Grossetête, accessed 07 April 2009.
• European Parliament, MEP Directory: Françoise Grossetête, accessed 17 November 2010.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 07 April 2009.