Dagmar Roth-Behrendt

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Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (married name Dagmar Reichenbach ; born February 21, 1953 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician ( SPD ). Among other things, she was Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2012 .

Life

After graduating from high school in Friedberg (Hesse) in 1971 , Dagmar Roth-Behrendt studied law at the Philipps University of Marburg , which she completed in 1977 with the first state examination in law. After her legal traineeship , she passed the second state examination in 1979 and then worked as a lawyer in Berlin . Later she was a consultant in the Senate Chancellery of the Governing Mayor of Berlin . She is married to the economist Horst Reichenbach .

MPs

From 1985 to 1989, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt was a member of the district assembly of the Berlin district of Spandau .

In 1989 she was elected a Member of the European Parliament , of which she was a member until 2014. From 1989 to 2004 she was spokeswoman for the PES group for environmental, consumer and health policy and from 2004 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2012 she was Vice-President of the European Parliament . From 2007 to 2009 she headed the high-level working group on the reform of the European Parliament set up by the Conference of Group Chairmen in the European Parliament. She was rapporteur for the revision of the directive on medical devices in the European Parliament.

Dagmar Roth-Behrendt was a member of the committee for environmental issues, public health and food safety and a deputy member of the legal committee. In 1997 she was chair of the committee of inquiry into the BSE crisis.

On April 23, 2009 she received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

For the 2014 European elections, Roth-Behrendt decided not to run again. Since July 2016 she has also been a member of the ethics committee of the European Commission .

Memberships

Dagmar Roth-Behrendt is a member of the Europa-Union parliamentary group European Parliament .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Andreas Kleiner, Katrin Eichel: Three German Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. (No longer available online.) European Parliament, July 15, 2009, archived from the original on January 23, 2015 ; accessed on July 15, 2009 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europarl.europa.eu
  2. Implant Files: New medical devices - poorly tested, used quickly. Deutschlandfunk, November 26, 2018, accessed on November 29, 2018 .
  3. Corporate Europe Observatory: The who, what and why of the Commission's Ad hoc Ethical Committee. , September 15, 2016 (accessed on February 6, 2017; German translation: The who what and why of the EU Commission's ad hoc ethics committee. Wunderhaft.blogspot.co.at).