ZigmantasBalcytis

General Data

 * Born on 16 November 1953, Šilutė
 * Country: Lithuania
 * Political Group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (SD) Party: Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija

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 * Parlement européen
 * Parlement européen


 * Email: [mailto:zigmantas.balcytis@europarl.europa.eu zigmantas.balcytis(at)europarl.europa.eu]
 * Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=96680
 * Site web: www.balcytis.lt

Functions in European Parliament

 * Committee on Budgetary Control (Member)
 * Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (Member)
 * Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (Member)
 * Committee on Transport and Tourism (Substitute)
 * Special committee on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013 (Substitute)
 * Delegation for relations with the United States (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Vilnius University, Finance and Accounting Faculty, specialising in economic cybernetics (1976)
 * Engineer at the Planning and Design Bureau of the Ministry of the Food Industry (1976-1978)
 * Deputy director of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Society (1984-1989)
 * Director of the Vilnius asphalt and concrete works (1992-1994)
 * Deputy director of the company Lithun (1996-2000)
 * Trade union administrator (1989-1991)
 * Member of Lietuvos demokratinės darbo partija (Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania) (2000−2001)
 * Member of Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija (Social Democratic Party of Lithuania) (since 2001)
 * Vice-Chair of Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija (since 2004)
 * Member of Vilnius City Council (1994)
 * Deputy Governor of Vilnius District (1994-1996)
 * Member of the Seimas (Parliament) of the Republic of Lithuania (2000-2009)
 * Chair of the Lietuvos socialdemokratų partija group in the Seimas (2008-2009)
 * Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania (2001-2005)
 * Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania (2005-2007)
 * Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania (2006)
 * Member of the Seimas delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2008-2009)
 * Founder of the charitable foundation 'Padėkime kitiems' (Let's help others) (since 2003)
 * Honours: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Lithuania (Rolandas Paksas, President of the Republic of Lithuania, 6 February 2004)
 * Order of the Great Cross (Grã-Cruz) for merit (Office of the President of Portugal, 29 May 2002)
 * Honorary decoration for making a personal contribution to advancing Lithuania's transatlantic relations on the occasion of the Republic of Lithuania's invitation to join NATO (Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania, 23 November 2002)
 * Afanasy Nikitin Medal for making a great contribution to the development of transport bringing regions and nations closer together (Sergey Frank, Transport Minister of the Russian Federation, 9 September 2003)
 * Medal commemorating the 750th anniversary of the coronation of the King Mindaugas of Lithuania (Office of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania, 23 July 2003)

Votes

 * 24/11/2010 - Resolution on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) 100.0/100
 * 22/09/2010 - Rapport Gallo on enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market 100.0/100

Positions
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