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Esko SEPPÄNEN



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Constituencies

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  • Vasemmistoliitto icon: FI Finland 2004/07/20 - 2009/07/13
  • Vasemmistoliitto icon: FI Finland 1999/07/20 - 2004/07/19
  • Vasemmistoliitto icon: FI Finland 1996/11/11 - 1999/07/19

Groups

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  • icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Member Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 1996/11/11 - 1997/02/13
  • icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Vice-Chair Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 1997/02/14 - 1999/07/19
  • icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Member Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 1999/07/20 - 1999/10/12
  • icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Member of the Bureau Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left 1999/10/13 - 2004/07/19
  • icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL Member of the Bureau Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left 2004/07/20 - 2009/07/13

Committees

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RoleCommitteeStartEnd
Substitute of Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development 1996/11/14 1997/01/15
Member of Committee on Budgets 1996/11/14 1997/01/15
Member of Committee on Budgets 1997/01/16 1999/07/19
Substitute of Committee on External Economic Relations 1997/01/16 1999/07/19
Substitute of Committee on Budgets 1999/07/21 2002/01/14
Member of Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy 1999/07/21 2002/01/14
Substitute of Committee on Budgetary Control 2000/05/03 2002/01/14
Substitute of Committee on Budgetary Control 2002/01/17 2002/03/20
Substitute of Committee on Budgets 2002/01/17 2004/07/19
Member of Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy 2002/01/17 2004/07/19
Substitute of Committee on Budgetary Control 2004/07/21 2007/01/14
Member of Committee on Budgets 2004/07/21 2007/01/14
Substitute of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 2004/07/21 2007/01/14
Member of Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 2004/10/14 2005/06/08
Substitute of Committee on Budgetary Control 2007/01/15 2007/01/30
Member of Committee on Budgets 2007/01/15 2007/01/30
Substitute of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 2007/01/15 2007/01/30
Substitute of Committee on Budgetary Control 2007/01/31 2009/07/13
Member of Committee on Budgets 2007/01/31 2009/07/13
Substitute of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy 2007/01/31 2009/07/13

Delegations

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RoleDelegationStartEnd
Member of Delegation for relations with Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia 1996/11/14 1997/01/15
Member of Delegation for relations with Russia 1997/01/16 1997/10/13
Substitute of Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) 1997/01/16 1999/07/19
Member of Delegation for relations with Russia 1997/10/14 1997/11/30
Member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 1997/12/01 1999/02/23
Member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 1999/02/24 1999/07/19
Substitute of Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee 1999/09/29 2002/01/14
Member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 1999/09/29 2002/01/14
Substitute of Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee 2002/02/07 2004/04/30
Member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 2002/02/07 2004/07/19
Member of Delegation to the European Economic Area Joint Parliamentary Committee (EEA) 2002/02/07 2004/07/19
Member of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 2004/09/15 2004/09/20
Substitute of Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia 2004/09/15 2009/07/13
Vice-Chair of Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee 2004/09/21 2009/07/13

Rapporteur

TypeDossierCommitteeTitle
Committee Opinion 2003/0330(CNS) BUDG Budgets Macro-financial assistance to Albania
Responsible Committee 2003/0302(COD) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Energy: internal market in natural gas, cross-border exchanges, access to the transmission networks
Former Responsible Committee 2003/0302(COD) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Energy: internal market in natural gas, cross-border exchanges, access to the transmission networks
Responsible Committee 2003/0233(CNS) BUDG Budgets Community loans to third countries: Guarantee Fund and new Member States, tranfer from the Fund to the budget
Committee Opinion 2003/0190(CNS) BUDG Budgets Serbia and Montenegro: further macro-financial assistance
Responsible Committee 2003/0021(NLE) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Nuclear energy: safety of installations, basic obligations and general principles
Committee Opinion 2002/2265(INI) BUDG Budgets Implementing the macrofinancial assistance to the third countries
Committee Opinion 2002/0018(CNS) BUDG Budgets Ukraine: Community supplementary macro-financial assistance
Responsible Committee 2001/2101(DEC) CONT Budgetary Control 2000 discharge: ECSC budget
Responsible Committee 2001/2100(BUD) BUDG Budgets 2002 ECSC operating budget
Responsible Committee 2001/0225(CNS) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Nuclear energy: safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management, International Joint Convention 1997
Former Committee Opinion 2001/0180(COD) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Genetically modified organisms GMOs: traceability and labelling
Responsible Committee 2001/0143(CNS) BUDG Budgets EIB loans: extending the Community guarantee to cover loans for projects in Yugoslavia
Responsible Committee 2001/0121(CNS) BUDG Budgets EIB loans for Russia: Community guarantee for environmental projects, Baltic Sea
Committee Opinion 2001/0062(CNS) BUDG Budgets Economic Union: medium-term financial assistance for Member States' balances of payment (repeal. Regulation (EEC) No 1969/88)
Committee Opinion 2000/2297(COS) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Environment and human health: impact of polyvinyl chloride PVC. Green paper
Responsible Committee 2000/2167(DEC) CONT Budgetary Control 1999 discharge: ECSC budget
Responsible Committee 2000/2159(COS) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Forest-based and related industries: state of competitiveness
Responsible Committee 2000/0197(CNS) BUDG Budgets EC/Turkey customs union: EIB special action programme
Committee Opinion 2000/0128(CNS) BUDG Budgets Information society, eContent: European digital content, linguistic diversity. 2001-2004 programme
Responsible Committee 2000/0122(CNS) BUDG Budgets EIB loans for Croatia: Community guarantee
Former Committee Opinion 2000/0077(COD) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Cosmetic products: animal experiments (7th amend. to "Cosmetics Directive" 76/768/EEC)
Committee Opinion 1999/2127(COS) ITRE Industry, Research and Energy Structural Funds: coordination with the Cohesion Fund, guidelines for programmes 2000-2006
Committee Opinion 1999/0213(CNS) BUDG Budgets Moldova: supplementary Community macro-financial assistance
Responsible Committee 1999/0212(CNS) BUDG Budgets EIB loans for Turkey: EC guarantee against losses, reconstruction of the regions stricken by the earthquake
Committee Opinion 1998/2067(COS) RELA External Economic Relations EC/China relations: building a comprehensive partnership
Responsible Committee 1998/0076(CNS) RELA External Economic Relations EC/Latvia Europe agreement: free competition and undertakings (art. 64 1 and 2 of the Agreement)
Committee Opinion 1997/2119(COS) RELA External Economic Relations TACIS: cross-border cooperation
Committee Opinion 1997/0372(CNS) BUDG Budgets Solid fuels: multiannual programme of technological actions for an efficient and clean use 1998-2002
Former Committee Opinion 1997/0371(COD) BUDG Budgets SAVE II, energy efficiency: multiannual programme 1998-2202
Former Committee Opinion 1997/0370(COD) BUDG Budgets ALTENER II: multiannual programme for the promotion of renewable energy sources (1998-2002)
Committee Opinion 1997/0369(CNS) BUDG Budgets Energy: international cooperation, multiannual programme SYNERGY 1998-2002
Committee Opinion 1997/0302(CNS) BUDG Budgets Energy sector: multiannual framework programme 1998-2002

Activities

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Amendment Co-authors
Name Group Country Ams
Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE icon: Spain Spain 1
Šarūnas BIRUTIS icon: ALDE ALDE icon: Lithuania Lithuania 1
Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE icon: Spain Spain 1
Edit HERCZOG icon: PSE PSE icon: Hungary Hungary 1
Romana JORDAN icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE icon: Slovenia Slovenia 1
Anne LAPERROUZE icon: ALDE ALDE icon: France France 1
Reino PAASILINNA icon: PSE PSE icon: Finland Finland 1
Vladimír REMEK icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL icon: Czechia Czechia 1
Salvador GARRIGA POLLEDO icon: PPE-DE PPE-DE icon: Spain Spain 1
Catherine GUY-QUINT icon: PSE PSE icon: France France 1
Anne E. JENSEN icon: ALDE ALDE icon: Denmark Denmark 1
Helga TRÜPEL icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE icon: Germany Germany 1
Dariusz Maciej GRABOWSKI icon: UEN UEN icon: Poland Poland 1

By types

Amendments (54)
Opinions (4)
Plenary speeches (340)
Reports (24)

By dossiers

CountDossier ReferenceTitle
282008/0211(COD)Protection of animals used for scientific purposes
102008/0268(COD)EIB loans: Community guarantee to the EIB against losses under loans and loan guarantees for projects outside the Community
92008/0013(COD)Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading scheme of the Community
42008/2024(BUD)2009 budget: Section III, Commission: budgetary framework and priorities for 2009
32008/2026(BUD)2009 budget: Section III, Commission
32007/0195(COD)Internal market in electricity. Third energy package
22009/2005(BUD)2010 budget: section III, Commission: guidelines
22008/2022(BUD)2009 budget: Parliament's estimates
22007/2138(INI)Programming implementation of the 10th European Development Fund
22006/0802(CNS)Instrument for Nuclear Safety Cooperation 2007-2013: establishment
22005/0272(CNS)Shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel
22003/0302(COD)Energy: internal market in natural gas, cross-border exchanges, access to the transmission networks
12008/0231(CNS)Community framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations
12008/0016(COD)Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources. Renewable Energy Directive
12008/2330(INI)Renewed social agenda
12008/0142(COD)Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare
12008/0154(COD)Community eco-management and audit scheme (EMAS): voluntary participation by organisations
12008/2210(INI)Wilderness in Europe
12009/2516(RSP)Resolution on the return and resettlement of the Guantánamo detention facility inmates
12008/2239(INI)Second strategic energy review
12009/2504(RSP)Resolution on the situation in the Gaza Strip
12008/2675(RSP)Resolution on Somalia
12008/2658(RSP)Resolution on Burma
12008/2026B(BUD)2009 budget: other sections
12008/2523(RSP)Resolution on the European Council of 15-16 October 2008
12008/0087(CNS)EC/Ukraine Partnership and Cooperation Agreement: preservation of commitments on trade in services
12008/2628(RSP)Resolution on getting a grip on energy prices
12008/2623(RSP)Resolution on the coup in Mauritania
12008/2616(RSP)Resolution on allegations of mass graves in Indian-administered Kashmir
12008/2617(RSP)Resolution on Bangladesh
12007/2118(INI)Environmental impact of the planned gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea to link up Russia and Germany
12007/0199(COD)Conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks. Third energy package
12008/2025(BUD)2009 budget: first reflections on the 2009 PDB mandate for the conciliation
12007/2257(INI)Mid-term review of industrial policy: a contribution to the EU's growth and jobs strategy
12007/0051(COD)Livestock and meat statistics
12007/0232(CNS)EC/Seychelles Fisheries Agreement: protocol for the period from 18 January 2005 to 17 January 2011, amendments
12007/2038(DEC)2006 discharge: EC general budget, European Parliament
12007/0135(CNS)Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme, multiannual technical guidelines
12008/2021(BUD)2009 budget: guidelines, other sections
12007/2188(INI)Global efficiency and renewable energy fund
12008/2017(BUD)Amending budget 1/2008: EU Solidarity Fund, budgetary structure for the REA and the ERCEA, establishment plan of FRONTEX, Galileo Programme, budget article on Exceptional crisis expenditure
12007/2286(INI)Treaty amending the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community
12007/2275(INI)Situation of the European economy: report on the broad economic policy guidelines for 2008
12007/2141(INI)Transparency in financial matters
12006/0196(COD)Internal market of postal services
12007/2019(BUD)2008 budget: section III, Commission
12007/0172(CNS)Macro-financial assistance to Lebanon
12007/0130(COD)Regulations governing political parties at European level and rules regarding their funding
12007/2097(INI)Contribution of taxation and customs policies to the Lisbon strategy
12007/2019B(BUD)2008 budget: other sections
12007/2091(INI)Conventional energy sources and energy technology
12006/0277(CNS)European elections: exercise of the right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament, preventing citizens from voting or standing twice
12007/2090(INI)Road map for renewable energy in Europe
12007/2005(INI)EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol related harm
12006/2227(INI)Keep Europe moving: sustainable mobility for our continent
12007/2590(RSP)Resolution on the humanitarian situation of Iraqi refugees
12007/2604(RSP)Resolution on human rights violations in Transnistria (Moldova)
12007/2581(RSP)Resolution on human rights in Vietnam
12007/2089(INI)Prospects for the internal gas and electricity market
12006/2237(INI)EU/Russia relations: economic and trade relations
12007/2087(INI)Road map for the Union's constitutional process
12006/2240(INI)Promoting decent work for all
12007/2554(RSP)Resolution on the EU-Russia summit in Samara on 18 May 2007
12006/0127(COD)Health and safety of workers at work: simplifying and rationalising the reports on practical implementation
12006/2071(DEC)2005 discharge: EC general budget, European Parliament
12007/2017(BUD)2008 budget: the Commission's Annual Policy Strategy Report (APS)
12006/2205(INI)Future of the European Union's own resources
12007/2013(BUD)2008 budget: orientations, other sections
12006/2269(INI)European Investment Bank (EIB) annual report 2005
12006/0064(CNS)EC/Russia Readmission Agreement
12006/2082(INI)Energy policy: renewable sources, biomass action plan
12006/2265(BUD)Amending budget 6/2006: revision of the forecasts for traditional own resources and of VAT and GNI balances, decrease of appropriations for the EAGGF and the Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund
12006/0033(COD)Establishing the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF)
12006/2018B(BUD)2007 budget: other sections
12005/2248(INI)European social model for the future
12005/0043(COD)Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007-2013)
12006/2584(RSP)Resolution on the outcome of the European Union-Russia Summit held in Sochi on 25 May 2006
12005/2210(INI)Energy efficiency or doing more with less. Green Paper
12006/2028(ACI)Budgetary discipline and sound financial management as well as financial perspectives 2007-2013
12006/2020(BUD)2007 budget: Commission's annual strategic priorities
12003/0262(COD)Protection of human health: addition of nutrients to food
12005/2115(DEC)2004 discharge: Eurojust
12005/2141(INI)Aid effectiveness and corruption in developing countries
12003/0297(COD)Trans-European energy networks: guidelines
12006/2530(RSP)Resolution on security of energy supply in the European Union
12005/2134(INI)Annual report on Common foreign and security policy CFSP 2004
12005/0118(CNS)Common organisation of the markets in the sugar sector
12003/0242(COD)Environment: access to information and justice, public participation, application of the Arhus Convention
12004/2166(INI)European neighbourhood policy
12005/2085(INI)Relations with the Russian Federation and China in the field of air transport
11998/0076(CNS)EC/Latvia Europe agreement: free competition and undertakings (art. 64 1 and 2 of the Agreement)
12003/0233(CNS)Community loans to third countries: Guarantee Fund and new Member States, tranfer from the Fund to the budget
12003/0021(NLE)Nuclear energy: safety of installations, basic obligations and general principles
12001/0225(CNS)Nuclear energy: safety of spent fuel and radioactive waste management, International Joint Convention 1997
12001/2101(DEC)2000 discharge: ECSC budget
12001/0121(CNS)EIB loans for Russia: Community guarantee for environmental projects, Baltic Sea
12001/2100(BUD)2002 ECSC operating budget
12001/0143(CNS)EIB loans: extending the Community guarantee to cover loans for projects in Yugoslavia
12000/2167(DEC)1999 discharge: ECSC budget
12000/2159(COS)Forest-based and related industries: state of competitiveness
12000/0197(CNS)EC/Turkey customs union: EIB special action programme
12000/0122(CNS)EIB loans for Croatia: Community guarantee
11999/0212(CNS)EIB loans for Turkey: EC guarantee against losses, reconstruction of the regions stricken by the earthquake
12008/0067(CNS)EIB loans: eligibility of Central Asian countries granting a Community guarantee to the EIB against losses under loans and loan guarantees for projects outside the Community
12006/0203(CNS)European Investment Fund: increasing the nominal capital
12006/0107(CNS)EIB loans: renewal of the Community guarantee for the period 2007-2013
12005/0025(CNS)Community loans to third countries: provisioning mechanism of the Guarantee Fund for external actions
12005/0195(CNS)Community guarantee for EIB loans: including the Maldives in the list of countries covered following the Indian Ocean tsunamis of December 2004
12004/0121(CNS)EIB loans to Russia and the Western New Independent States WNIS: EC guarantee (ext. Decision 2001/777/EC)

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Born

1946/02/15 - Oulu

  • Bachelor's degree in business studies (1971). Journalist (Yleisradio Oy, 1970-1987).
  • Member of Parliament (1987-1996).
  • Member of the European Parliament (since 1996).

History

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CV
  • Bachelor's degree in business studies (1971). Journalist (Yleisradio Oy, 1970-1987).
  • Member of Parliament (1987-1996).
  • Member of the European Parliament (since 1996).