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European Commission
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200
1049 Brussels
BelgiumResponsibilities
- Modernising and simplifying EU food safety policy while keeping the current high level of safety and ensuring existing policies have maximum effect.
- Ensuring the Commission is ready in supporting the EU’s capacity to deal with crisis situations in food safety or pandemics.
- Reviewing the laws that oblige the Commission to authorise genetically modified organisms (GMOs), even when a majority of national governments opposes them.
- Building up knowledge on the performance of national health systems to shape national and EU policies.
- Helping address the challenge of increased calls on national health services at a time of intense pressure on public finances.
Vytenis Andriukaitis is part of the following Project Teams:
- Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
- Digital Single Market
- Better Regulation and Inter-Institutional Affairs
- Budget and Human Resources
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Biography
Lithuanian nationality. Married with three children.
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Commissioner for Health and Food Safety
- 2014-present
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Vice-President of the World Health Assembly
- 2014
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Minister for Health
- 2012-14
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Deputy Speaker of the Lithuanian Parliament
- 2001-04
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Party leader of Lietuvos Socialdemokratų Partija (LSDP, Social Democratic Party of Lithuania)
- 1999-2000
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Member of the Lithuanian Parliament
- 1992-04 and 2008-14
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Signatory of the act of independence of Lithuania and co-author of the country's constitution
- 1990-92
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Founder of the LSDP
- 1989
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Medical doctor and surgeon in Kaunas, Ignalina and Vilnius
- 1975-93
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Master's degree in History, Vilnius University
- 1984
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Medical doctor's degree, Kaunas Institute of Medicine
- 1975