Karin Kadenbach

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Karin Kadenbach (born April 19, 1958 in Vienna ) is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ and was a member of the European Parliament from July 2009 ( 7th electoral term ) to 2019 .

Life

Karin Kadenbach (2017)

Karin Kadenbach attended elementary school and the modern high school in Vienna. With a scholarship from the exchange program for intercultural learning, she was able to attend the Elmira Free Academy in New York (USA) for one school year (1974–1975), where she also received the American High School Diploma. After graduating from high school, Karin Kadenbach completed a university course in advertising and sales at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and received the professional title of "Academically Certified Advertising Clerk". From 1976 she was employed in the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, first as an employee and from 1980 as a contact assistant. Karin Kadenbach has five children and lives in Brussels and Lower Austria.

Political career

After raising children between 1985 and 1994, Karin Kadenbach was state women's secretary of the SPÖ Lower Austria. A few years before that, in 1990, she became a member of the municipal council in her new home in Großmugl in Lower Austria.

In 1999 she became regional manager of the SPÖ Lower Austria and three years later, from April 2001, also a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament . Almost six years later Karin Kadenbach became State Councilor for Health and Nature Conservation. After the state elections in 2008, she returned as a member of the Lower Austrian state parliament.

In 2009 she ran as a member of the European Parliament and was sworn in on July 14 of the same year. Since then she has been a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) . After the European elections in Austria in 2019 , she left the European Parliament.

Main focus of work in the European Parliament

Eighth legislative term (2014-2019)

In the 8th electoral term , Karin Kadenbach was again a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) and a deputy member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) and the Budgetary Control Committee (CONT).

She is also Vice-President of the Delegation for relations with Japan and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula. In addition, Karin Kadenbach, as Vice President of the Animal Welfare Group, an interest group of members of parliament, advocates the protection of pets and farm animals. She is also a member of the LGTBI interest group, which advocates equal rights for all people, regardless of gender, identity or sexual orientation.

Since January 2016, Kadenbach has been a full member of the committee of inquiry into emission measurements in the automotive industry. This committee is supposed to examine alleged violations of European law in connection with emission measurements in the automotive industry, as well as the role of the European Commission and the national test centers. Since November 2015 Karin Kadenbach has been the Parliament's rapporteur on the regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities to ensure the application of food and feed law and the regulations on animal health and welfare, plant health, plant reproductive material and plant protection products.

She was also the shadow rapporteur for the mid-term review of the European biodiversity strategy, which is intended to ensure the preservation of biological diversity in the European member states.

Seventh legislative term (2009-2014)

In the seventh electoral term , Karin Kadenbach was a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). She was an alternate member of the Committee for Regional Development (REGI) and the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI). She was also active in the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia and in the delegation for relations with the United States.

In October 2013 she was the rapporteur on eco-innovations - jobs and growth through environmental policy. General strategies for creating sustainable economic growth and the associated increase in the number of jobs were defined. Karin Kadenbach was also shadow rapporteur for 37 initiatives.

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personal data
SURNAME Kadenbach, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian politician (SPÖ), member of the state parliament, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna