Stefan Eck

Stefan Eck is a German politician, who, since 2014, represented Germany in the European Parliament until 2019. He was elected representing the Human Environment Animal Protection Party, but left the party in December 2014. He sat as an Independent in the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.^[1] Since January 2020 he has been a member of the Ecological Democratic Party.^[2]

Stefan Bernhard Eck
Stefan B. Eck at the European Parliament in Brussels
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 2019
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	8 January 1956 (1956-01-08) (age 69) Hamburg, West Germany
Political party	Ecological Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	Human Environment Animal Protection Party (-2014)
Occupation	Politician
Profession	Businessman, advertising agent, artist, politician
Committees	European Parliament Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Awards	EU4Animals Award

Work at the European Parliament

In the European Parliament, he was vice president of the Intergroup on Animal Welfare and Conservation^[3] and a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. He was also a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and Delegations for relations with the People's Republic of China, the countries of South Asia, the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian States and for relations with the Korean Peninsula.^[4] He is also a founding member of the Interparliamentary Interest Group "MEPs for Wildlife".

His main activities include animal and human rights as well as environmental protection.