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Mr Pieter OMTZIGT

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Substitute
Member of the House of Representatives
Omtzigt

House of Representatives - Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

https://nl.linkedin.com/in/pieter-omtzigt-3877733

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018

Latest news

25/01/2022 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Assange extradition fight: Pieter Omtzigt welcomes leave for appeal to the UK Supreme Court granted by the High Court 20/12/2021 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights Pieter Omtzigt: new whistleblower protection law in Malta ‘not fit for purpose’ 25/11/2021 - Monitoring Poland monitors extremely concerned at Polish Constitutional Court decision challenging the supremacy of the European Convention on Human Rights 28/09/2021 - Legal Affairs and Human Rights PACE General Rapporteur expresses serious concern at reports that US officials discussed assassinating Julian Assange 20/04/2021 - Monitoring PACE Poland monitors: the independence of the Polish Human Rights Defender institution must be ensured

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

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... 28/01/2020 | 10:13:19 Thank you. And we can be a bit more precise on what the Polish government is trying to do at the moment. The Polish government has had a reform and I would not consider these reforms reforms but instead deteriorations. The first reform they did was to merge the person of the Minister of Justice with the Prosecutor General. That means that the Minister of Justice is not only Minister of Justice but can also take decisions as Prosecutor General. He can even interfere in individual court... 01/10/2019 | 10:30:13 Thank you, Madam Chair. And let me first congratulate the rapporteur Mr Sylvain WASERMAN on an excellent report. Let's face it, whistle-blowing is one of the few areas in which the Council of Europe has made an impact over the last 10 years. This is the third report on whistle-blowing – or the fourth if you count the report on Snowden. It has set a movement, which has now led to the European legislation which will be implemented in all 28 or 27 EU Member countries. The UK in this case, by the...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

05/07/2022 | Doc. 15591 | Report Addressing the issue of Daesh foreign fighters and their families returning from Syria and other countries to the member States of the Council of Europe 12/11/2020 | Doc. 15182 | Committee Opinion Investment migration 06/01/2020 | Doc. 15025 | Report The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland 08/06/2019 | Doc. 14906 | Report Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the rule of law in Malta and beyond: ensuring that the whole truth emerges 03/09/2018 | Doc. 14607 | Report The crash of Polish Air Force Tu-154M transporting the Polish State delegation, on 10 April 2010 on the Russian Federation's territory

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

21/06/2022 | Doc. 15555 | Motion for a resolution Public regulation of the freedom of expression in digital platforms 25/02/2022 | Doc. 15461 | Motion for a resolution Reconsideration of previously ratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 27/01/2022 | Doc. 15446 | Motion for a resolution Examining the legitimacy and legality of the ad hominem term-limit waiver for the incumbent President of the Russian Federation 21/09/2021 | Doc. 15373 | Motion for a recommendation Pegasus and similar spyware and secret state surveillance 09/12/2020 | Doc. 15195 | Motion for a resolution Respect for the rule of law and fight against corruption within the Council of Europe

Votes on adopted texts

29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for resolution The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 29/01/2020 | Doc. 15015, vote on the draft text for recommendation The protection of freedom of religion or belief in the workplace 28/01/2020 | Doc. 15025, vote on the draft text for resolution The functioning of democratic institutions in Poland 01/10/2019 | Doc. 14958, vote on the draft text for resolution Improving the protection of whistle-blowers all over Europe 01/10/2019 | Doc. 14958, vote on the draft text for recommendation Improving the protection of whistle-blowers all over Europe