Axel Voss

Member of the European Parliament

Axel Voss (CDU), born in 1963, has worked as a lawyer since 1994. From 1994 to 2000 he was a citizens' adviser at the European Commission Representation in Germany and from 2000 to 2009 a lecturer in European Affairs at the RheinAhrCampus of Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. He has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. There he represents the Middle Rhine region, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Leverkusen as well as the districts of Rhein-Sieg and Rhein-Erft. He is a member and coordinator/spokesperson for the EPP Group in the Committee on Legal Affairs and a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. He specialises in artificial intelligence (AI), European data protection and European copyright law. He was the European Parliament's rapporteur on the highly publicised reform of EU copyright law. For the Group of the European People's Party (EPP), he was also rapporteur on the so-called Passenger Name Record (PNR) and the new EU Data Protection Regulation. In the current legislative period, he is the rapporteur for the European Supply Chain Act and for AI.