BernadetteVergnaud

General Data

 * Born on 16 September 1950, Montluçon
 * Country: France
 * Political Group: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament (SD) Party: Parti socialiste

 Bâtiment Altiero Spinelli 14G169 60, rue Wiertz, 1047 Bruxelles Tel.: [callto://+3222845210 +32 2 28 45 210]/[callto://+3222847210 +32 2 28 47 210] Fax: +32 2 28 49 210 Bâtiment Louise Weiss T08153 1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman - CS 91024, 67070 Strasbourg Cedex Tel.: [callto://+33388175210 +33 3 88 175 210]/[callto://+33388177210 +33 3 88 177 210] Fax: +33 3 88 179 210
 * Parlement européen
 * Parlement européen


 * Email: [mailto:bernadette.vergnaud@europarl.europa.eu bernadette.vergnaud(at)europarl.europa.eu]
 * Page on European Parliament website: www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/alphaOrder/view.do?language=EN&id=28177
 * Site web: www.bernadette-vergnaud.eu

Functions in European Parliament

 * Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (Vice-Chair)
 * Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (Member)
 * Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (Member)
 * Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (Substitute)

Curriculum Vitae

 * Degree in Spanish (1971)
 * Degree in Portuguese (1972)
 * Master's degree in Spanish and Latin American civilisation (1973-1974)
 * Teacher (1971-1976)
 * University bursar (1976-2004)
 * Socialist Party secretary for Poitiers area (1990-2003)
 * Socialist Party departmental secretary with responsibility for women's rights (1997-2004)
 * Socialist Party departmental secretary with responsibility for European affairs (since 2004)
 * Member of the Socialist Party's national council (since 2008)
 * Member of Poitiers Municipal Council (1995-2001)
 * Deputy mayor of Poitiers with responsibility for education and school catering (2001-2008)
 * Member of Poitiers Municipal Council with responsibility for European citizenship (since 2008)
 * Member of the Poitou-Charentes Regional Council (1998-2004)
 * Member of the European Parliament (since 2004)

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
 * 06/05/2009 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 2nd reading 22.2/100
 * 26/03/2009 - Rapport Lambrinidis on strengthening security and fundamental freedoms on the Internet 83.3/100
 * 24/09/2008 - Directives reforming the EU's regulatory framework for electronic communications networks and services (telecoms package), 1st reading 47.5/100
 * 10/04/2008 - Rapport Bono on cultural industries in Europe 100.0/100
 * 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) 63.9/100

Positions
Thanks to improve this part with opinions from Bernadette VERGNAUD about La Quadrature du Net concerned issues (see page Help:Political_Memory to know how to do it).

25/05/2010 Written Declaration 12/2010 (ACTA)
Has signed written declaration 12/2010 on the lack of a transparent process for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and potentially objectionable content.

02/09/2008 Telecoms Package Plenary Speeches
Protection of privacy was also part of priorities, as well as protection of children, access providers having to provide free of charges parental control softwares to consumers. All these progress had to be made for the profit of the many.Therefore many provisions are about equal access to people with disabilities. People with low income or SMEs have not been forgotten. So, we tried to extend the universal services application field to high speed broadband, this is one of the priority of the French presidency, which is a very good thing. Now I would like to address content and copyright, which has tended to overshadow the rest of the improvements included in this text. Our goal has always be to provide consumers with general information about copyright, in accordance with the original proposal from Commission. Until the final vote, we will work to improve the wording of the compromises, respecting the principle of neutrality for content access. Some amendment adopted in the "Privacy" Directive, however, are quite problematic and we make sure to remove them. I would like to thank again my colleagues and I'm waiting more precise proposition from the presidency in order to improve moreover this text until the next plenary session.