KarinScheele

General Data

 * Born on 22 July 1968, Baden
 * Country: Austria
 * Political Group: Socialist Group in the European Parliament (PSE) Party: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs

Functions in European Parliament

 * 20/07/1999 - 19/07/2004 : Group of the Party of European Socialists (Member)
 * 21/07/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (Member)
 * 22/07/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Committee on Development and Cooperation (Substitute)
 * 22/07/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (Substitute)
 * 14/09/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (Member)
 * 13/12/2000 - 15/01/2001 : Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (Member)
 * 16/01/2001 - 29/11/2001 : Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (Vice-Chairwoman)
 * 17/01/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (Member)
 * 17/01/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Committee on Development and Cooperation (Substitute)
 * 17/01/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (Substitute)
 * 06/02/2002 - 30/04/2004 : Delegation to the EU-Hungary Joint Parliamentary Committee (Member)
 * 06/02/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (Member)
 * 20/07/2004 - 10/12/2008 : Socialist Group in the European Parliament (Member)
 * 21/07/2004 - 10/12/2008 : Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (Member)
 * 21/07/2004 - 10/12/2008 : Committee on Development (Substitute)
 * 15/09/2004 - 10/12/2008 : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Member)
 * 15/09/2004 - 10/12/2008 : Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (Substitute)
 * 10/05/2007 - 10/12/2008 : Temporary Committee on Climate Change (Member)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Graduate of Vienna University of Economics (1997)
 * Worked for the Pensionsversicherungsanstalt der ArbeiterInnen (workers' pension insurance institute) (1987-1990)
 * Worked for Socialist Youth of Lower Austria (1990-1994)
 * Member, Regional Executive, Socialist Youth of Lower Austria (1994-1998)
 * Chair, Austria-Sahrawi Society (since 2000)
 * Officer, SPÖ International Secretariat (1998-1999)
 * Member, SPÖ Lower Austria Party Committee (since 1999)
 * Political officer with the International Union of Socialist Youth (1996-1998)
 * Member of the European Parliament (since 1999)

Votes

 * 25/04/2007 - Criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED 2), 1st reading 15.8/100
 * 12/10/2006 - Resolutions on European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) 72.2/100
 * 24/09/2003 - Directive on patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" (software patents), 1st reading 80.3/100

Positions
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