Malcolm Harbor

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Malcolm Harbor

Malcolm Harbor CBE (born February 19, 1947 in Woking , Surrey ) is a British Conservative Party politician and former member of the European Parliament . He belonged to the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and was chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection from 2009 to 2014 .

Harbor studied engineering at Trinity College (Cambridge) from 1964–67 and business administration at Aston University from 1967–70 . From 1969 to 1999 he was active in various positions in the automotive industry, including as a founding partner of a consulting company for the automotive industry and as the founder and director of the International Motor Vehicle Distribution Program Ltd. In the European elections of 1999 he became the European Parliament voted, where he, among others, the coordinator of the Group of EPP-ED in the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy was. In addition to the automotive industry, his most important fields of activity included the ceramics industry and internet politics. From 2004 to 2006 he worked as negotiator for the EPP-ED Group for the adoption of the Services Directive . He is also an advocate for software patents .

After the European elections in 2009 , Harbor resigned from the EPP-ED Group like the other members of his party to form the new ECR Group . He was elected Chairman of the Internal Market Committee, making him a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs and the only committee chair of his group. Harbor was also on the delegation for relations with Afghanistan . Harbor was a deputy in the delegation for relations with Japan .

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personal data
SURNAME Harbor, Malcolm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Woking , Surrey