Françoise Grossetête
| Françoise Grossetête | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
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Assumed office 20 July 1994 |
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| Constituency | South-East France |
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17 May 1946 Lyon, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Political party |
 French:The Republicans  EU:European People's Party (EPP) |
Françoise Grossetête (born 17 May 1946 in Lyon) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the South-East of France. She is a member of The Republicans; part of the European People's Party.
Grossetête was first elected Member of the European Parliament in the 1994 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she is currently the Parliament’s rapporteur on new legislation on veterinary medicines. In 2010, she led the Parliament’s negotiations the directive on patients' rights in cross-border healthcare.
In 2016, Grossetête also joined the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector. She previously served as member of the Temporary Committee on Climate Change (2007-2009), the Temporary Committee on Improving Safety at Sea (2003-2004) and the Temporary Committee on Foot and Mouth Disease (2002). She represented the Parliament at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
In addition to her committee assignments, Grossetête has been a member of the Parliament’s delegation for relations EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee since 2014. She previously served as a member of the delegations with the Gulf States, including Yemen, (2004-2014), with Australia and New Zealand (2007-2009), and with Cyprus (1994-2004), among others. From 2010 to 2011, she also served as co-coordinator of the European Parliament’s High-Level Contact Group for Relations with the Turkish Cypriot Community in the Northern Part of the Island (CYTR).
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