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EHPM parliamentary actions

EHPM parliamentary actions. EHPM AGM Amsterdam, 30 March 2011. Target within EP. Put pressure on the EC to re-think approach to the evaluation of Article 13.1 claims Prepare MEPs for Scrutiny to potentially block proposal. Key Messages. Targeted 134 key MEPs from 20 Member States.

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EHPM parliamentary actions

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  1. EHPM parliamentary actions EHPM AGM Amsterdam, 30 March 2011

  2. Target within EP • Put pressure on the EC to re-think approach to the evaluation of Article 13.1 claims • Prepare MEPs for Scrutiny to potentially block proposal

  3. Key Messages

  4. Targeted 134 key MEPs from 20 Member States • Chairs and Vice Chairs: influential amongst their peers • Political group coordinators: Coordinate members positions and advise on how to vote • MEPs with an interest in food related issues: willing to relay our concerns and be active in subject

  5. MEP positions 70 MEPS support; 6 Against; 58 we don’t know

  6. Support in political groups

  7. MEPs EHPM are meeting(39) Influential MEPs/Interested MEPs (23) Political coordinators (6) Political advisors (10) Chris DAVIES ALDE Linda MCAVAN S&D Miroslav OUZKÝ ECR Peter LIESE EPP Richard SEEBER EPP Satu HASSI Greens Adam BIELAN ECR IMCO Anna Maria CORAZZA BILDT EPP IMCO Antonyia PARVANOVA ALDE ENVI Baibre DE BRUN GUE/NGL ENVI Bogusław SONIK EPP ENVI Carl SCHLYTER Greens ENVI Cathrine STIHLER S&D IMCO Christel SCHALDEMOSE S&D IMCO Corinne LePAGE ALDE ENVI Dagmar ROTH-BEHRENDT S&D ENVI Eija-Riitta KORHOLA EPP IMCO Elisabetta GARDINI EPP ENVI Jo LEINEN S&D ENVI Joseph DAUL EPP ENVI Karl-Heinz FLORENZ EPP ENVI Malcolm HARBOUR ECR IMCO Marina YANNAKOUDAK ECR ENVI Mario MAURO EPP ENVI Michèle RIVASI Greens ENVI Renate SOMMER EPP ENVI Robert ROCHEFORT ALDE IMCO Struan STEVENSON ECR ENVI Zuzana ROITHOVÁ EPP IMCO Amarylli Gersony EPP Bogdan Rogin ALDE Corinna Zerger Green Francisco Guerra S&D Josephine Wood S&D Simon Meehan ECR Ulrike SCHÖNER S&D Vivienne Gadeyne GUE Wilhelm Bargum ALDE Zuzana Milackova ECR

  8. MEPs EHPM are meeting(39) Influential MEPs/Interested MEPs (23) Political coordinators (6) Political advisors (10) 4 have expressed support 2 have expressed they are not supportive 11 have expressed support 5 have not expressed a position 3 have expressed they are not supportive 4 we have not yet met Met with 2 who were sympathetic but did not express a position

  9. Tools in Action Following numerous meetings with MEPs: • 20 parliamentary questions tabled (3 this year) – helping to put political pressure on the Commission • 4 Written PQs in the pipeline • 4 MEPs have agreed to table a written PQ • 1 Oral question in the pipeline • EPP group agreed to put oral question to Commissioner in meeting to find solution first • EP Workshop on EIA • 20 April. Mme Rivasi, French Green Member of ENVI • An alliance of MEPs • willing to act on our behalf and relay our concerns to the Commission where and when needed.

  10. Further actions needed • Table written PQ’s • Demonstrate to the EC political will • Push for the Oral Question and debate at the right time • Put pressure on MEPs to table oral question in EP if meeting with EC • Meet and update them on the scientific consensus process • Invite MEPs to the EP workshop on the EIA – 20 April • Keep meeting MEPs and broaden geographical and political spread

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