 David Martin is Scotland’s most senior Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 1984, was Vice President (1989 - 2004) and latterly Senior Vice-President of the European Parliament with special responsibility for relations with national parliaments and parliaments of constitutional regional Assemblies (e.g. the Scottish Parliament).
He is a member of the European Parliament Committees on International Trade, Petitions and a substitute on both the Environment and Climate Change Committees.
Former Lothian Regional Councillor. Former leader of the British Labour MEPs 1987-88.
Author of EP reports on: Traditional Industrial Regions; RECHAR (areas suffering from the decline in the coal industry); and the 'Martin Reports' (4) on the Maastricht Treaty on European Union. Rapporteur on the 'Function of the Treaty on European Union in view of the IGC'.
Special interest: International Trade, ‘aid for trade’.
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