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Andreas Schwab | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 1 July 2004 | |
Constituency | Germany |
Personal details | |
Born | Rottweil,Baden-Württemberg,Germany | 9 April 1973
Political party | Christian Democratic Union European People's Party |
Alma mater | |
Website | www |
Andreas Schwab (born 9 April 1973) is a German politician and member of the European Parliament for Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union,part of the European People's Party. [1] Since 2009,he has been Of Counsel with CMS Hasche Sigle. [2]
Schwab serves on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO),where he deals with network and information security. [3] He is the European People's Party Group’s coordinator on the committee.
From 2010 to 2011,Schwab drafted the European Parliament's report on the EU Consumer Rights Directive. [4] As shadow rapporteur,he has issued opinions on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (2015) and on the Annual Report on EU Competition Policy (2015). In 2014,he co-sponsored (with Ramon Tremosa) a non-binding bill before the European Parliament calling on the European Commission to consider separating Google’s search-engine business from its other commercial activities to ensure fair competition on the internet. [5] [6] He also led the European Parliament's negotiating team on internet platform regulation in Europe. [7] He later served as rapporteur on the ECN+ Directive that entered in law early 2019,handing national competition authorities more enforcement powers to ensure the functioning of the EU's single market. [8] In 2021,he became the parliament's rapporteur on the Digital Markets Act. [9] [10]
In addition,Schwab serves as a member of the European Parliament's Sky and Space Intergroup (SSI) [11] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Biodiversity,Countryside,Hunting and Recreational Fisheries. [12]
In 1998,Schwab was elected for the "Young European of the Year" due to his commitment to Franco-German relations and received a scholarship from the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation. [15]
In addition,in 2018 he received the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. [16]
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