RolfBerend

General Data

 * Born on 01 October 1943, Gernrode/Eichsfeld
 * Country: Germany
 * Political Group: Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (PPE-DE) Party: Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands

Functions in European Parliament

 * 19/07/1994 - 19/07/1999 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group) (Member)
 * 21/07/1994 - 19/07/1999 : Committee on Regional Policy (Member)
 * 21/07/1994 - 19/07/1999 : Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (Member)
 * 21/07/1994 - 19/07/1999 : Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media (Substitute)
 * 11/10/1995 - 19/07/1999 : Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (Member)
 * 20/07/1999 - 13/07/2009 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (Member)
 * 21/07/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (Member)
 * 21/07/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (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)
 * 08/10/1999 - 14/01/2002 : Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (Substitute)
 * 17/01/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (Member)
 * 17/01/2002 - 19/07/2004 : Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (Substitute)
 * 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)
 * 07/03/2002 - 30/04/2004 : Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (Substitute)
 * 21/07/2004 - 31/01/2007 : Committee on Regional Development (Member)
 * 22/07/2004 - 13/07/2009 : Committee on Culture and Education (Substitute)
 * 15/09/2004 - 13/07/2009 : Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (Member)
 * 15/09/2004 - 13/07/2009 : Delegation for relations with Belarus (Substitute)
 * 01/02/2007 - 13/07/2009 : Committee on Regional Development (Vice-Chairman)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Graduate of the Universities of Jena and Leipzig (1966)
 * Employed as a teacher until 1990
 * Member of the Thuringia Land executive of the CDU (since 1990)
 * Member of Eichsfeld district CDU executive (since 1990)
 * Chairman of the Thuringia Land committee on Europe (since 1992)
 * Thuringia's representative in the Federal committee on Europe in Berlin (since 1991)
 * European policy spokesman for CDU Thuringia
 * Vice-Chairman of the Europa Union of Thuringia (since 1991)
 * Chairman of the Europa Union of Thuringia (1993-2002), thereafter honorary chairman
 * Member of Gernrode municipal council (since 1989)
 * Member of the European Parliament (since 1994)
 * EPP Group deputy coordinator for regional policy (since 1996)
 * Regional policy spokesman for the CDU/CSU in the European Parliament
 * Member of the EPP Group Bureau
 * Director of Concordia Gernrode choral society (since 1972)
 * President of Gernrode Carnival Association (since 1966)
 * Federal Cross of Merit with ribbon

Votes

 * 06/05/2009 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 2nd reading 8.3/100
 * 26/03/2009 - Rapport Lambrinidis on strengthening security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet 50.0/100
 * 24/09/2008 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 1st reading 35.0/100
 * 10/04/2008 - Rapport Bono on cultural industries in Europe 33.3/100
 * 25/04/2007 - Criminal measures aimed at ensuring the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPRED 2), 1st reading 21.1/100
 * 24/09/2003 - Directive on patentability of "computer-implemented inventions" (software patents), 1st reading 27.3/100

Positions
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