Political groups
2014-2019: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament
National parties
2014-2019: Parti socialiste
Biography
Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy was born in Châteauroux, France. A member of the Socialist Party, she launched her political career at the French municipality of Villejuif, located in the department of Val-de-Marne in the Île-de-France region. After serving as Parliamentary Secretary of the Socialist Party of Villejuif for seven years, she was elected to first of the Socialist list for the 2001 municipal elections. She would continue as a municipal councillor of Villejuif until 2014 and President of the Socialist Group in the Val de Bièvre conurbation community. In 2004 and 2010, she was elected and re-elected the regional councillor of Île-de-France in the department of Val-de-Marne. In this position, she became the administrator of the Syndicat des Transports d’Ile-de-France.
She was part of one of the main national decision bodies of the Socialist Party since 2000 and became the National Secretary for Opinion Monitoring from April 2014. Her experience in the field of transport led her to be part of the transport group of François Hollande’s campaign team on governance issues and worked on the same topic in the presidential campaign of the Socialist candidate Benoît Hamon in 2017.
Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy was 6th place on the list of the Socialist Party in 2009 for Île-de-France for the European elections. She became a Member of the European Parliament for the 7th parliamentary term on 9 April 2014 after Harlem Désir entered the French government and a number of resignations to the socialist list in Île-de-France for the European elections had occurred. She was re-elected in the European elections for the 8th parliamentary term one month later, May 2014.
Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy was a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. Following the Volkswagen controversy that broke out in the US in September 2015, she sat on the Committee of Inquiry into Pollution Emissions in the Automotive Sector as rapporteur for the Group of Socialists and Democrats. Most of the disbursement documents relate to this special committee, which was established in February 2016 to examine emission measurements in the automotive sector, following the initial US scandal concerning several German car manufacturers (and then other manufacturers from several countries) on their possible practices of falsification of vehicle compliance test results to reduce emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants, and on how to strengthen these standards and certification processes.
The taxation of heavy goods vehicles, the railway package, the right to abortion, the reception of refugees and are other key issues that she was committed to. She was also a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa and the Delegation for relations with Mercosur.
From January 2017 to early 2019, she was Chair of the French Socialist Delegation to the European Parliament, succeeding Pervenche Berès.
For more information on her time as an MEP, click here.
What's in the Archives
Transport
Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy followed all reports related to the environmental and social challenges as well as those concerning transport, including the new carbon dioxide emission standards for light-duty vehicles and lorries and all reports on financing mechanisms in transport. In the context of the discussion on the road package, the documents highlight her sensitivity, or that of the group, regarding the social conditions of road drivers.
Special Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector
Most of the documents relate to the Committee of Inquiry into Emission Measurements in the Automotive Sector (EMIS). The Committee has asked the bodies concerned to carry out a series of studies and work on the subject. The secretariat of this committee has ensured the upload of materials to the EMIS website so that all relevant documents (oral and written evidence, background documents, agendas, etc.) as well as the verbatim report in English of each hearing are available. In addition to this information, the Secretariat prepared the hearings and published the “EMIS Newsletter” with information on past and future meetings as well as the latest news concerning the committee’s mandate.
“Railway package"
Other documents are gathered under the heading "Railway package". The 4th package, the final stage of liberalisation and opening up to competition, was developed during the 8th parliamentary term. It consists of a set of five texts making up the technical pillar (European Railway Agency, Railway Interoperability and Safety) and the market pillar (governance of stakeholders and opening up passenger transport to competition).
Note: Christine Revault d’Allonnes-Bonnefoy devoted her time as a member to Committee on Transport and Tourism and the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. As a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, she has been involved in preventing violence against women and protecting children in migration. None of these commitments are present in the fonds, which offer information on a very limited part of the committees' business. Other parliamentary activities such as participation in plenary, parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions are also not present.
Organisation of the Fonds:
The files are separated into specific topics relating to the Member’s own cases, including:
- Reports and opinions of the Committee on Transport and Tourism
- Amendments to reports
- Council legislative documents and Commission documents
- EMIS Newsletters
- Minutes of meetings
- Hearings
- Preparatory documents for drawing up reports and opinions: studies of organisations, press notices, policy guidelines, reviews