Malcolm Harbour

Malcolm Harbour, CBE ( born February 19, 1947 in Woking, Surrey ) is a British politician of the Conservative Party and Member of the European Parliament. He belongs to the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and is Chairman of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Harbour 1964-67 studied engineering at Trinity College ( Cambridge ) and 1967-70 Business Administration at the University of Aston. From 1969 to 1999 he served in various activities in the automotive industry active, including as a founding partner of a consulting firm for the automobile industry and the founder and director of the International Motor Vehicle Sales Ltd program. In the European elections of 1999 he was elected to the European Parliament, where he was also coordinator of the EPP-ED Group in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. His main fields of activity counted in addition to the automobile and the ceramic industry and the Internet policy. From 2004 to 2006 he sat as a negotiator of the EPP -ED Group for the adoption of the Services Directive. He is also a proponent of software patents.

After the 2009 European elections Harbour stepped out as the other members of his party from the EPP -ED Group in order to establish the new ECR group. He was elected Chairman of the Internal Market Committee and is the only committee chairman of his faction. Likewise Harbour is a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs and the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan. As Deputy Harbour is in the Delegation for relations with Japan.