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Ms Ria OOMEN-RUIJTEN

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Substitute
Senator

Senate - Eerste Kamer der Staten Generaal
NL - 2500 EA - The Hague
Netherlands

ria.oomen-ruijten@eerstekamer.nl

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018

Latest news

18/01/2021 - News PACE rapporteurs call for Navalny’s release 06/01/2021 - Monitoring Russia monitors urge the authorities to withdraw the designation of the Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies Association as an ‘undesirable organisation’ 02/09/2020 - Monitoring PACE co-rapporteurs urge the Russian authorities for immediate explanation on Alexey Navalny poisoning

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 11/10/2018
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 08/02/2018 to 10/10/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 27/11/2015 to 07/02/2018

In the Assembly

  • since 30/09/2019 Substitute - Netherlands
  • from 27/11/2015 to 29/09/2019 Representative - Netherlands

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

  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (since 30/09/2019)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Bureau of the Assembly (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Standing Committee (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 24/04/2017 to 08/10/2017)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2016 to 21/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/11/2015)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 04/02/2021)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 30/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on the Russian Federation): Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Council of Europe Member States (since 30/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 28/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 23/01/2018 to 22/01/2019)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Sub-Committee on Conflicts between Council of Europe Member States (from 23/01/2018 to 26/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2016 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 27/01/2016 to 24/01/2018)
  • Alternate of Ms Petra STIENEN (Full Member): Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (since 09/10/2017)
  • Alternate of Ms Pauline KRIKKE (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 11/10/2016 to 23/04/2017)
  • Alternate of Mr Mart van de VEN (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 18/04/2016 to 10/10/2016)
  • Alternate of Ms Annemarie JORRITSMA-LEBBINK (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 25/01/2016 to 17/04/2016)
  • Alternate of Mr Paul SCHNABEL (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Environment and Energy (from 28/01/2016 to 10/03/2016)

Interventions

Last speeches

28/01/2020 | 10:27:23 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, The report we are discussing now is about the desperate situation of the Polish judiciary. I thank the rapporteurs because they have a factual statement on what went wrong since 2015. Dear colleagues, if there had been an effort in Poland to make the judicial system more efficient and if it had been an attempt to make the judiciary more accountable and transparent to the citizens, as should be accepted from a modern democratic society, nobody here...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

23/03/2021 | Doc. 15244 | Written declaration Critical state of health of prisoners in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic 16/11/2020 | Doc. 15184 | Motion for a resolution Review of the partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of the Kyrgyz Republic 04/02/2020 | Doc. 15073 | Motion for a resolution The Parliamentary Assembly’s role in developing a systematic approach to cope with global epidemic outbreaks 31/01/2020 | Doc. 15061 | Written declaration Defend the rights of Julian Assange and the freedom of the press 15/10/2019 | Doc. 14926 | Written declaration The rights of the politically oppressed must be restored in the Republic of Moldova

Votes on adopted texts

28/01/2021 | Doc. 15216, vote on the draft text for resolution Challenge, on substantive grounds, of the still unratified credentials of the parliamentary delegation of the Russian Federation 28/01/2021 | Doc. 15199, vote on the draft text for resolution Ethnic profiling in Europe: a matter of great concern 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for resolution Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States 27/01/2021 | Doc. 15205, vote on the draft text for recommendation Restrictions on NGO activities in Council of Europe member States 30/01/2020 | Doc. 15055, vote on the draft text for resolution International obligations concerning the repatriation of children from war and conflict zones