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Axel Voss
European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
Description
Axel Voss (CDU) - born in 1963 - studied law at the Universities of Trier, Freiburg and
Munich. Since 1994, he is working as a lawyer. From 1994 to 2000, he was a civil
advisor at the EU Commission's representation in Germany. Afterwards, he worked
for nine years as lecturer for European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of the College
of Koblenz.
He became a Member of the European Parliament in 2009, where he represents the
Mittelrhein area, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen and the
districts Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. Axel Voss is EPP-coordinator for the Committee
on Legal Affairs as well as deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties,
Justice and Home Affairs and from 2020 to 2022 member and rapporteur in the
special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Besides questions of European Law, his
main area of expertise is the digitization of our daily life. For the European People’s
Party group, he was among others (shadow-)rapporteur for the new Copyright
Directive, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Passenger Name
Record Directive (PNR) as well as for the updated Eurojust Regulation. He also was
(shadow-)rapporteur for the AI Act and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence
Directive.
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