Biljana Borzan

Biljana Borzan
Member of the European Parliament
for Croatia
Assumed office
1 July 2013
Personal details
Born (1971-11-29) 29 November 1971
Osijek, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Nationality Croat
Political party Social Democratic Party of Croatia
Spouse(s) Vladimir Borzan[1]
Children Andrej
Mateo[1]
Residence Osijek[1]
Alma mater University of Zagreb
Occupation Politician
Profession Physician

Biljana Borzan (born 29 November 1971 in Osijek[2]) is a Croatian physician and politician who has been member of the European Parliament for Croatia since 1 July 2013, having been elected to the position at the 2013 and 2014 elections.[3] She is a member of the center-left Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP).

Early life and education

Biljana Borzan was born in Osijek on November 29, 1971. After finishing elementary and high school in her hometown, she enrolled at the Osijek branch of the Zagreb School of Medicine. Borzan specialized occupational and sport medicine.[4]

Career

In 1997, Borzan got employed at the Osijek Health Center where she worked until 2007.[5] She got involved in politics in 1999 by joining Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP), because she "couldn't be a passive observer" since she was "dissatisfied with the level of democracy, tolerance, and justice in the country following the rule of President Franjo Tuđman". In 2000, she became a member of the Council of the SDP Osijek, and in 2001, president of the Osijek branch of the SDP's Woman's Forum. At the 2001 local elections, Borzan was elected to the Osijek City Council. Between September 2004 and May 2005, she was Council President. In 2004, she became Vice President of the SDP's Main Board. Borzan was elected president of the SDP's Osijek branch in 2005.[6] At the 2005 local elections, she was re-elected to the Osijek City Council.

At the 2007 parliamentary election, she was elected to the Croatian Parliament, representing 4th electoral district. During this term, she was a member of the Petitions and Appeals Committee, and Committee on Information, Computerisation and the Media.[7] She was a member of the SDP's Presidency since 2008. Between May 2008 to January 2009, Borzan served as a Deputy Mayor of Osijek. She was re-elected to the Osijek City Council at the 2009 local elections, and to the Croatian Parliament at the 2011 parliamentary election. During her second MP term, she served as president of the Committee on Health and Social Policy, member of the Foreign Policy Committee, and Croatian Observer to the European Parliament (16 March 2012 to 1 July 2013).[8]

At the 2013 European Parliament election, she was elected as one of 12 Croatian MEP's and was re-elected at the 2014 election. In the European Parliament, she often participates in discussions concerning health, environment, food production control and food trade, and consumer protection.[1]

As the representative of the Socialists and Democrats Group, Borzan was part of the Parliament's team that, in 2016, successfully concluded the negotiations on the Regulations on Medical Devices and In vitro diagnostic devices with the European Council. Borzan was the European Parliament's rapporteur on the report on reducing food waste and improving food safety which was adopted in May 2017.[9] She is the main author of the Regulations in the European Parliament's Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, which makes cross-border delivery more cost-effective for the EU citizens, and make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses to enter the wider mmarket.[10] On 25 September 2017, Europe's leading baby food brand Hipp Holding announced that it would relaunch one of its products after jars sold in Eastern Europe were found to contain a lower proportion of vegetables and an omega-3 source compared with the identically branded product sold in the Western Europe, following the publication of the results of the research initiated by Borzan herself, and supervised by the Croatian Food Agency.[11] Borzan announced that she expects from other manufacturers to follow Hipp's example.[12][13]

In October 2016. Borzan was delegated as the European Parliament's contact person for relations with the European Medicines Agency. In 2018. she played an important role in the legislative process related to the relocation of the Agency from London to Amsterdam.[14]

The Parliament Magazine presented Borzan with "The Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Award" for 2018.[15]

Legislative activity in the European Parliament[16]

- Report on initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety

- Report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 as regards the location of the seat of the European Medicines Agency

- Report on rights of women in the Eastern Partnership States

- Report on external factors that represent hurdles to European female entrepreneurship

- Report on the EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020

- Opinion on dual quality of products in the single market

- Opinion on the implementation of EU macro-regional strategies

- Opinion on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on - Cross-border parcel delivery services

- Opinion on the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2014-2020

- Opinion on the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2016 and the European Union’s policy on the matter

- Position in form of amendments on implementation of the European Disability Strategy

- Opinion on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a Union programme to support specific activities enhancing the involvement of consumers and other financial services end-users in Union policy making in the field of financial services for the period of 2017-2020

- Opinion on Delivering a New Deal for Energy Consumers

- Opinion on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2014

- Opinion on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the European Institute for Gender Equality for the financial year 2014

- Opinion on General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2016 - all sections

- Opinion on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2016 draft budget

- Opinion on procedures and practices regarding Commissioner Hearings, lessons to be taken from the 2014 process


Private life

Biljana Borzan is married to Vladimir Borzan with whom she has two sons, Andrej and Matej. Her husband works as gastroenterologist at the Clinical Hospital Center in Osijek. The family lives in Osijek.[1] In her free time, she loves to paint, sing, read, and sew the clothes she wears. Borzan speaks English, German and Russian.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Pomalo neobičan život jedne od najvažnijih političarki SDP-a". 15 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Biljana Borzan - SDP".
  3. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/112748/BILJANA_BORZAN_home.html Profile
  4. ↑ http://www.biljanaborzan.eu/upload_data/site_files/biljana-borzan_newsletter-no1.pdf
  5. ↑ "Biljana BORZAN - Životopis - Zastupnici - Europski parlament". www.europarl.europa.eu.
  6. 1 2 "Biljana Borzan".
  7. ↑ "Hrvatski sabor - Biljana Borzan". www.sabor.hr.
  8. ↑ "Hrvatski sabor - Biljana Borzan". www.sabor.hr.
  9. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20170509IPR73930/cutting-food-waste
  10. ↑ "Izglasana uredba Biljane Borzan omogućit će jeftiniju dostavu u RH".
  11. ↑ Boffey, Daniel (25 September 2017). "HiPP to relaunch Croatian baby food item amid row over inferior products" – via www.theguardian.com.
  12. ↑ "HIPP POPUSTIO, NA HRVATSKO TRŽIŠTE PLASIRAT ĆE ISTO ŠTO I NA NJEMAČKO Biljana Borzan:".
  13. ↑ Komunikacije, Neomedia. "Eurozastupnica Biljana Borzan nastavlja borbu: Na istočna tržišta dolaze proizvodi s više emulgatora i aditiva / Novi list". www.novilist.hr.
  14. ↑ https://www.tportal.hr/vijesti/clanak/hrvatska-ima-izgleda-dobiti-europsku-agenciju-za-lijekove-20161120
  15. ↑ http://www.mepawards.eu/winners
  16. ↑ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/112748/BILJANA_BORZAN_activities.html
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