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Renate Sommer MEP


Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 1999
Constituency	Germany

Personal details
Born	(1958-09-10) 10 September 1958 (age 66) Bochum, Germany
Political party	Christian Democratic Union European People's Party

Renate Sommer (born 10 September 1958) is a German politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 until 2019. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party.^[1]

Member of the European Parliament

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Between 1999 and 2009, Sommer served on the Committee on Transport and Tourism. From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Since 2014, Sommer has been the president of the European Parliament Beer Club.^[2] In 2010 she was the rapporteur of the directive on food labelling^[2] and she opposes any EU-wide approach to alcohol regulation, citing cultural differences across countries.^[3]

In 2019, during the debate of the new General Food Law Regulation which followed the controversial reauthorisation of glyphosate, she opposed an increased transparency for the European Food Safety Authority, but the plenary of the European Parliament in December 2018 rejected her proposals and she resigned from her position as rapporteur. The regulation was eventually passed in April 2019 without her proposals.^[2]^[4]

Other activities

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European Parliament Beer Club, President
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Member of the Board of Trustees

References

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^ "Renate SOMMER". Your MEPs. European Parliament. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Transparency for public trust? After the glyphosate scandal, EU increases transparency of food industry toxicity data". Corporate Europe Observatory. 2019-04-16.
^ Aleksandra Terzieva (May 27, 2015), Pharma wins first round in booze battle Politico Europe.
^ "Transparency and sustainability of the EU risk assessment in the food chain". 2018/0088(COD).

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Alliance 90/The Greens	Jan Philipp Albrecht Franziska Brantner Reinhard Bütikofer Michael Cramer Sven Giegold Gerald Häfner Rebecca Harms Martin Häusling Ska Keller Barbara Lochbihler Heide Rühle Elisabeth Schroedter Werner Schulz Helga Trüpel
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The Left	Lothar Bisky Cornelia Ernst Thomas Händel Jürgen Klute Sabine Lösing Helmut Scholz Sabine Wils Gabi Zimmer
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	Albert Deß Markus Ferber Monika Hohlmeier Martin Kastler Angelika Niebler Bernd Posselt Manfred Weber Anja Weisgerber

v t e German members of the European Parliament (2014–2019)
Christian Democratic Union	Burkhard Balz until 31 August 2018 Reimer Böge Elmar Brok Daniel Caspary Birgit Collin-Langen Jan Christian Ehler Karl-Heinz Florenz Michael Gahler Stefan Gehrold since 20 September 2018 Jens Gieseke Ingeborg Gräßle Peter Jahr Dieter-Lebrecht Koch Werner Kuhn Werner Langen Peter Liese Norbert Lins Thomas Mann David McAllister Markus Pieper Godelieve Quisthoudt-Rowohl Dennis Radtke since 24 July 2017 Herbert Reul until 6 July 2017 Sven Schulze Andreas Schwab Renate Sommer Sabine Verheyen Axel Voss Rainer Wieland Hermann Winkler Joachim Zeller
Social Democratic Party	Udo Bullmann Michael Detjen since 1 January 2018 Ismail Ertug Knut Fleckenstein Evelyne Gebhardt Jens Geier Matthias Groote until 31 October 2016 Iris Hoffmann Petra Kammerevert Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann Arndt Kohn since 24 February 2017 Dietmar Köster Constanze Krehl Bernd Lange Jo Leinen Arne Lietz Susanne Melior Norbert Neuser Maria Noichl Gabriele Preuß Ulrike Rodust Martin Schulz until 10 February 2017 Joachim Schuster Peter Simon Birgit Sippel Jutta Steinruck until 31 December 2017 Jakob von Weizsäcker until 6 January 2019 Martina Werner Kerstin Westphal Babette Winter since 10 January 2019 Tiemo Wölken since 14 November 2016
Alliance 90/The Greens	Jan Philipp Albrecht until 2 July 2018 Reinhard Bütikofer Michael Cramer Romeo Franz since 3 July 2018 Sven Giegold Rebecca Harms Martin Häusling Maria Heubuch Ska Keller Barbara Lochbihler Terry Reintke Helga Trüpel
The Left	Cornelia Ernst Thomas Händel Sabine Lösing Fabio De Masi until 23 October 2017 Martina Michels Martin Schirdewan since 8 November 2017 Helmut Scholz Gabi Zimmer
Alternative for Germany	Hans-Olaf Henkel Bernd Kölmel Bernd Lucke Jörg Meuthen since 8 November 2017 Marcus Pretzell Joachim Starbatty Beatrix von Storch until 23 October 2017 Ulrike Trebesius
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	Albert Dess Markus Ferber Monika Hohlmeier Angelika Niebler Manfred Weber
Free Democratic Party	Nadja Hirsch since 8 November 2017 Wolf Klinz since 8 November 2017 Alexander Graf Lambsdorff until 23 October 2017 Gesine Meißner Michael Theurer until 23 October 2017
Free Voters	Ulrike Müller
Pirate Party	Felix Reda
Human Environment Animal Protection Party	Stefan Eck
National Democratic Party	Udo Voigt
Family Party	Arne Gericke
Ecological Democratic Party	Buchner
Die PARTEI	Sonneborn

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