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Mr Pieter OMTZIGT

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 12/11/2010

In the Assembly

  • since 21/06/2021 Substitute - Netherlands
  • from 30/09/2019 to 20/06/2021 Representative - Netherlands
  • from 12/11/2010 to 29/09/2019 Substitute - Netherlands
  • from 25/01/2010 to 12/11/2010 Representative - Netherlands
  • from 23/11/2004 to 25/01/2010 Substitute - Netherlands

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • General Rapporteur for the protection of whistleblowers: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 29/06/2020 to 20/06/2021)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 20/06/2021)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 28/09/2018 to 20/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 25/04/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 27/01/2014)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 21/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 23/01/2012 to 20/06/2021)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (from 25/11/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Third Vice-Chairperson: (Former) Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (from 12/11/2010 to 21/11/2011)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 22/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 21/01/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 24/01/2017 to 22/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/11/2015 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 27/01/2015 to 25/01/2017)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 27/01/2015 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 08/03/2013 to 22/04/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Rule of Law (from 22/01/2013 to 10/12/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 22/01/2013 to 28/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Rule of Law (from 12/03/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 23/01/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Health (from 27/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Rights of Minorities (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Member: Sub-Committee on Children (from 12/11/2010 to 23/01/2012)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter and Employment (from 12/11/2010 to 27/01/2011)
  • Alternate of Ms Kati PIRI (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/09/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Wybren van HAGA (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 21/01/2019 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Sven KOOPMANS (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 09/10/2017 to 27/09/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Reina de BRUIJN-WEZEMAN (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 22/01/2018 to 29/09/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Mart van de VEN (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 25/01/2016 to 17/04/2016)
  • Alternate of Mr Paul SCHNABEL (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 27/11/2015 to 24/01/2016)
  • Alternate of Mr Paul SCHNABEL (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 18/04/2016 to 25/06/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Marit MAIJ (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 30/09/2013 to 24/04/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Khadija ARIB (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2012 to 22/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Michiel SERVAES (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 23/01/2012 to 29/09/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Tuur ELZINGA (Member): (Former) Committee on Economic Affairs and Development (from 23/11/2007 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Klaas de VRIES (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/01/2015 to 26/11/2015)
  • Alternate of Ms Ankie BROEKERS-KNOL (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 23/04/2013 to 29/09/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Klaas DIJKHOFF (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/01/2013 to 07/03/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Tuur ELZINGA (Chairperson): Sub-Committee on International Economic Relations (from 27/01/2011 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Klaas de VRIES (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Crime Problems and the Fight against Terrorism (from 21/01/2008 to 23/01/2012)
  • Alternate of Mr Tuur ELZINGA (Chairperson): Sub-Committee on International Economic Relations (from 23/11/2007 to 24/01/2011)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/01/2023 | 17:07:55 Thank you, colleagues and thanks for this debate, for not forgetting about what happened because that, and our colleagues reminded us of it, since Ukraine, we may tend to forget the thing that happened before. And we should not fall into that trap. If justice is not being done and seen to be done with the most heinous of crimes, genocide, then we lose credibility as an international community in other very serious crimes, but less serious than genocide. So I fully understand my British... 23/01/2023 | 16:16:05 Thank you, Madam Chair. After the horrors of the Second World War we founded this Council of Europe. We had two objectives: no more war and no large-scale war and no genocide. We had a number of smaller wars and now we have a large-scale war. And today we are discussing the issue of a genocide committed by thousands of Europeans in Syria and Iraq. That is a failure in what we sought to do. In 2017 we decided that Daesh had committed genocide and other serious crimes on their international law... 15/03/2022 | 10:33:13 Thank you. When this organisation was founded, in 1949, in the original meeting Churchill held a speech and started: "Throughout our long history we have triumphed over the perils of religious wars, of dynastic wars. After 30 years of conflict I'm confident that we have now reached the end of nationalist wars. After all our victories and all our suffering, are we now to founder in ultimate chaos, in ideological wars triggered by barbarous lawless oligarchies?" These words are more true today... 27/09/2021 | 16:52:22 Okay sorry colleagues, thank you very much. Thank you very much to Mr Paul GAVAN for an excellent report which is deeply and deeply depressing. The whole idea of having a Council of Europe was that we would at least be able to prevent a conflict in which member states are involved. It seems that it has become normality that we accept this kind of conflict. We have had the Russian invasion of Georgia. We have had the invasion of Ukraine and now we have had the Azerbaijani attack on Nagorno... 28/01/2020 | 15:41:58 Thank you very much, and thank you very much for the broad support for our report and for the cooperation in writing it. Indeed as Ms Maryvonne BLONDIN, but also Mr John HOWELL and Mr Andreas NICK noted, it took a long time. Please bear with us, we've only been rapporteurs for one year and have done our utmost best to present this report here. Whereas we as an Assembly have been a little bit slow, the Venice commission has not been slow at any rate. Whenever something happened - and...

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