Malcolm Harbour
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Malcolm Harbour (born 1947) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands region for the Conservative Party since 1999.
He ran first a candidate for Birmingham East in the 1989 European Parliament elections and is married with two children. His interests include travel, cooking, choral singing and motor racing.
He is currently:
- the Conservative group Internal Market Spokesman,
- member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection
- substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
- substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs
- as well as a substitute member of the Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy Committee.
Malcolm was formerly a partner in a motor industry consulting company, Harbour Wade Brown from 1989 to 1999, and was UK and Overseas Sales Director for Austin Rover.
On 13 January 2005, Harbour has been appointed by the European Commission to "Cars 21", a new High Level Group to boost competitiveness in the European automobile industry.
The High level Group was set up today by Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. See also: Lobbying
Harbour is one of 2 MEPs on this panel, Other members include Government Ministers, European Commissioners and the Heads of Major EU Automotive Firms. The goal of the group is to define the best possible regulatory approaches; and Internal Market Spokesman.
It will be chaired by Günter Verheugen and will focus on the effects of regulation and red tape, and ways of encouraging innovation and technology.
Before joining the Parliament, Harbour spent 30 years in the car industry.
external links
- FFII UK Malcolm Harbour (http://www.ffii.org.uk/players/people/meps/conservative/harbour.html) and Software patents
- FFII on Malcolm Harbour (http://swpat.ffii.org/players/mharbour/index.en.html)
- Malcolm Harbour (http://wiki.ffii.org/SwpatmharbourEn) - updated wiki page
- Detailed information on his work (http://www.torymeps.com/content/malcolmharbour.htm)