NAME: Czarnecki, Ryszard.

POLAND

POLITICAL GROUP: European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR).

PARTY: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość.

CONSTITUENCY: Poland

DATE OF LATEST ELECTION: 2009.

Committees: Member of the Committee on Development; Member of the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of south-east Europe; Substitute, Committee on Foreign Affairs; Substitute, Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly; Substitute, Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

Political Career: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Liaison with Poles Abroad 1999-2001; Vice-Chairman of the Committee on European Law 2000-2001; Representative of the Polish Parliament in the Parliamentary Assembly of the West European Union 1991-2001; Minister for European Integration 1997-1999; Minister, Member of the Cabinet 1998-1999; Head of the Committee on European Integration 1997-1998; Deputy Minister of Culture 1993; Parliamentary Representative to NATO 1991-1993; Member in the I and III terms of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland; Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media; Chairman of the Parliamentary Subcommittee on Copyright; Chairman of the Polish-Italian Parliamentary Group; Member of the Parliamentary Committee on European Integration.

Profession: Archivist, Archiwum Akt Nowych, Warsaw 1986; Solidarność Archives 1987; Journalist with The Polish Daily, London 1988-1990; Editorial Secretary, Głos 1990-1991; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Wiadomości Dnia 1991; Editor-in-Chief, Dziennik Dolnośląski 1991; Acting Director, Nordpol-Press 1991; Chief Editor for Religious Programmes, Polsat TV 1993-1997; Lecturer 2001-2004.

Education: University of Wrocław, Master of History.

Born: 25 January 1963, London.