Mrs. Roithova’s major policy initiatives in 2009-2010:
- Consumer protection – restricting low-quality imported goods to the EU, banning GMOs and foodstuffs produced from cloned animals
- Children safety – promoting safe toys and healthy children shoes, promoting common EU standards on children footwear and a compulsory certification of compliance with health standards
- SWIFT treaty between EU and USA – providing for adequate data privacy of EU citizens while giving law enforcement officers important tools to fight terrorist finance
- Textile industry – defending European textile producers against low quality imported goods and demanding a better protection of the CE mark
- eYouGuide (a guide to online rights) - a project run by the European Commission at the request of Mrs. Roithova. This guide is available in the Czech language (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eyouguide/index_en.htm)
- Children in the online environment – ban on online betting and gambling advertisements aimed at the youth
- Restoring reciprocity to the common visa policy – fighting to lift the Canadian visa obligation on Czech citizens
- European External Action Service – ensuring a fairer representation of smaller-sized member states in the EEAS (http://eeas.europa.eu/)
- Rights of patients – fighting for increased rights of patients using health care of a different member state
- Telecoms package – deepening of user rights and strengthening the position of consumers, ensuring a constant quality of electronic communication services in the internal market
- Development policies – fighting against poverty and for human rights protection in the least developed countries and in totalitarian dictatorships
- Protection of seals - pushing for a ban on imported products made out of seal leather
- Schengen - strengthening controls at the EU borders
Reports in Committees and Delegations
Mrs. Roithova was the rapporteur of the following reports:
Harmonisation package: Through her membership in IMCO Mrs. Roithova has worked on this harmonisation package in the hopes of improving consumer safety throughout all of the Member States. These nine reports establish a variety of measures to hold manufacturers accountable and improve transparency within the Union. There are a number of provisions in the directive that serve as ways to improve consumer and manufacturer safety; these include the CE marking, the Declaration of Conformity, and notified bodies.
Mrs. Roithova was the shadow rapporteur of the following reports:
Mrs. Roithova has been the rapporteur for the following opinions:
Non-legislative Activities:
- On protection of financial service consumers against usury practices
- in support of the memory of and in recognition of Václav Havel, former President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic and defender of human rights
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sidesSearch/search.do?type=WDECL&language=EN&term=7&author=28352
Between 2004-2009, Mrs. Roithova was the rapporteur of the following reports:
- Novel foods – stressing that novel foods should comply with the highest safety standards and their introduction to the market should not be complicated by a overly bureaucratic process, focusing on the ethic dimension of novel products which will have to be approved by the European Group on Ethics of science and new technologies (EGE)
(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5583302)
- Coordination of the social security systems – the health systems of member states should cover the costs for ambulant (non-hospital) care provided by a different member states without a prior notice
(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5311232)
- Employed persons, self-employed persons and members of their families moving within the Community – increasing transparency and simplifying coordination of social security systems, raising the awareness of patients about health care possibilities in other member states
(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5473832)
Mrs. Roithova was the shadow rapporteur of the following reports:
During Mrs. Roithova’s tenure as a Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, she has been the rapporteur for:
- The Right to Food
- The Legal Status of the Internally Displaced Persons
(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/intcoop/acp/10_01/default_en.htm)
In the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, Mrs. Roithova has been active particularly in these fields:
- Intellectual property rights - Enhancing the enforcement of intellectual property rights in the internal market - rapporteur; Creating tougher protections against imported counterfeit goods
- SOLVIT - on-line problem solving network in which EU Member States work together to solve cross border disputes through a non-legal mechanism – shadow rapporteur
(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/homeCom.do?language=EN&body=IMCO)
Non-legislative Activies:
Other Activities:
- Running an informational web page which spreads awareness about dangerous children’s goods, including toys and shoes (www.budulinek.eu)
- Running a free online legal aid website where law students provide legal assistance pro bono to Czech citizens: http://www.poradnaprava.cz/index.php/free-legal-aid.html
- Organizing lectures and internships for constituents
- Publishing informational brochures
- Organizing and sponsoring cultural events