Antonio Tajani

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Antonio Tajani, MEP

Antonio Tajani (born 04 August 1953, Roma) is an Italian politician and the Vice President of the [[European Commission for Transport].From 1994 to 2008, he was an MEP from the former Italian political party Forza Italia, and a member of Delegation for relations with Israel. He is a member of the Steering Committee of European Friends of Israel (EFI).


Affiliations

  • Vice-Chairman
  • 15.10.2003 / 15.12.2003 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats.
  • Member
  • Substitute

Record and Controversies

Declaration of Financial Interests

Record of Parliamentary Votes

  • Voted against 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.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • 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.[3] 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.[4]
  • 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.[5]
  • 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.[6]
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[8] Rejected due to lack of absolute majority.

Personal Information

Curriculum Vitae

  • Law degree from la Sapienza University in Rome.
  • Officer in the Italian air force, trained at the Air Combat Academy in Florence after specialising in air defence control at the Centro Tecnico Addestrativo (technical training centre) in Borgo Piave; worked in air defence control, in charge of the operations room, monitoring Italian and European air traffic (civilian and military).
  • Journalist: parliamentary reporter, editor of the weekly «Il Settimanale», head of the RAI 1 radio news, chief editor of the Rome edition of «Il Giornale» and special correspondent in Lebanon, the USSR and Somalia.
  • Founder member, Forza Italia (1994).
  • Spokesman to Silvio Berlusconi during his first term of office as Prime Minister.
  • Took part in the Convention on the future of Europe that drew up the draft European constitution from February 2002 to July 2003.
  • Member of the European Parliament (1994-2008); sat on various parliamentary committees (foreign affairs, constitutional affairs, transport and tourism, fisheries and security and defence).
  • Elected leader of the Forza Italia (1999) party in the European Parliament.
  • Elected to the Presidency of the European People’s Party-European Democrats (Christian-Democrat group) (1999).
  • Vice-President responsible for transport policy.[9]

Contact

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Website:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/tajani/index_en.htm

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  2. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  3. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  4. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  5. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  6. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  7. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  8. ↑ Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 02 February 2009.
  9. ↑ European Commission, Vice-President, Commissioner for Transport: Antonio Tajani, accessed 23 April 2009.
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