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 from the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE).

Affiliations

• Vice-President, European Parliament
• Vice-President, Parliament's Bureau
• Vice-Chairman, Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
• Member, Committee on Petitions
• Member, Committee on Regional Development
• Substitute, Committee on Development
• Substitute, Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America

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@europarl.europa.eu

Website:

http://www.psoe-pe.org

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.
• Friends of the Earth, EU Vote Watch, accessed 30 April 2009.