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For more information, please visit the GSMA corporate website at www.gsma.com Follow the GSMA on Twitter: @GSMA GMSA.indd 1 15/02/2016 11:50:17 WELCOME A word from our host... Looking back over the previous year, we that in the European Parliament we will remember 2015 as a time of multiple have many ambitious colleagues challenges across Europe and the world. with excellent initiatives. Issues such as migration flows into The MEP Awards represent an excellent Europe, the Ebola epidemic and opportunity to acknowledge these cohesion within the Eurozone were outstanding achievements to a broader omnipresent in the daily news coverage. public and to highlight the added value Against this background, it is of that our work brings to our constituents. utmost importance that we all work Therefore, I congratulate all the together inside the EU institutions members of the European Parliament in a spirit of cooperation to the who have been nominated. benefit of the common good. It will be my pleasure to congratulate Only then we will be able to master the winners in their respective these problems and look ahead to a categories in the very near future. peaceful and prosperous future. In this context, I am very glad to see Paul Rübig (EPP, Austria) has been an MEP since 1996 and has twice been a winner of the Parliament Magazine’s MEP award for Research and Innovation Contents 3 ....... A word from our host 22..... Foreign affairs 4 ....... Agriculture 24 ..... Health 6 ....... Animal welfare 26..... ICT policy 8 ....... Corporate governance 28..... Justice and civil liberties 10 ..... Development 29..... Regional policy 12 ..... Digital agenda 30..... Research and innovation 14 ..... Economic and monetary affairs 32 ..... Sport and physical activity 16 ..... Employment and social affairs 34..... Trade and internal market 18 ..... Energy 36..... Transport 20..... Environment 38..... Tourism AGRICULTURE Supported by: Nicola Caputo S&D, Italy Nicola Caputo is well known in Parliament for his work application system for CAP financial aid and ideas for on agriculture, having been nominated in the same more innovative farming techniques. In a parliamentary MEP Awards category last year. He has led the fight question, Caputo suggested using hi-tech sensors against price volatility in the sector, and has worked to monitor farm production and health disorders in extensively on enhancing the competitiveness of EU animals, automated transport and logistics and smart agriculture. He has submitted a number of proposals farming systems to improve irrigation efficiency. to the European Commission, including an online Ulrike Müller ALDE, Germany A farmer by trade, Ulrike Müller has been shadow Bavarian deputy has been praised for her hands-on rapporteur for her group on several key agriculture approach to agricultural policy, often meeting with dossiers, most notably on a new EU forestry strategy stakeholders to discuss their concerns. She is a vocal and the cloning of animals for farming purposes. On advocate for rural communities and is committed cloning, Müller believes its commercial use should to strengthening the property rights of landowners, be banned until it no longer poses a risk to animal especially in the case of family-owned farms. welfare, without excessively burdening business. The Laurenţiu Rebega ENF, Romania Laurenţiu Rebega dedicated much of his academic worked extensively on the issue of food security career to agriculture, with degrees in animal and was involved with the Romanian arm of the husbandry, the management of rural development UN’s food and agriculture organisation. Within projects and rural development from Bucharest Parliament, he has questioned the Commission institutions, and a diploma in agriculture from on agricultural training programmes for Denmark. Before becoming an MEP, he was disadvantaged young people and interest shown managing director of an agricultural firm. He in the Commission and European Investment 4 Europe’s fertilizer industry applauds the great work of EUROPE’S FERTILIZER all MEP’ s over the INDUSTRY past year..... € €13.2 bn* €1.12 bn* turnover investment FERTILIZERS AND FOOD SECURITY 95,000 120+ Fertilizers employees production are an integral sites 50% part of food production. The fertilizer industry makes a Without them, significant contribution to Europe’s Today, fertilizers account 50% of the economy and the profitability of for 50% world would its agri-food sector. of global food production go hungry. * annual average last 5 years Our special congratulations go in 1960 in 2025 2 people 5 people were fed from will need to be fed to all MEP’s receiving 1 hectare from 1 hectare of land of land an award for their special contribution to society.... ANIMAL WELFARE Anja Hazekamp GUE/NGL, Netherlands An MEP since 2014, Anja Hazekamp was her for farming purposes. Hazekamp has long fought group’s shadow rapporteur on the zootechnical and for animal rights and is a member of the Dutch Party genealogical conditions for trade in and imports into for the Animals. Before becoming an MEP, she the Union of breeding animals and their germinal worked in public relations and later policy for the products. She was also shadow rapporteur on the Dutch Society for the Protection of Animals. She also cloning of animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine, worked as a scientist on the issue of animal testing. caprine and equine species kept and reproduced Emil Radev EPP, Bulgaria Emil Radev has been at the forefront of the fight very active in the campaign to amend the Bulgarian against animal cruelty in his native Bulgaria. He penal code in order to criminalise animal cruelty. A successfully led calls to implement an animal member of Parliament’s animal welfare intergroup, police department. This led the Minister for the Radev has been personally involved in the cause. In interior to issue a decree last July ordering all police 2014, after veterinary authorities refused to interfere, departments to appoint two officers dedicated to he helped rescue a horse who had been living in investigating cases of animal cruelty. In 2011, he was terrible conditions and suffering abuse from its owners. Janusz Wojciechowski ECR, Poland An MEP for over a decade, Janusz Wojciechowski opinion rapporteur on trade in seal products. The is Chair of Parliament’s animal welfare intergroup Polish deputy grew up on a farm and has been and a Vice-Chair of the agriculture committee. He surrounded by animals his whole life. He has is the ECR group shadow rapporteur on the cloning previously told the Parliament Magazine that he and of animals of the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and his wife were currently feeding 15 cats living in their equine species kept and reproduced for farming garden, as well as another living in their house. purposes. He is also the agriculture committee’s 6 Parliament Magazine roundtable events Debate at the heart of Europe Thinking of organising an EU policy-focused discussion in Brussels? Let the Parliament Magazine events team help manage your event. 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