Political groups

2009-present: Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament

National parties

2009-present: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands

Biography

Petra Kammerevert was born in Duisburg, Germany. After completing her studies in Düsseldorf in 1985, Kammerevert studied sociology and political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen and graduated in social sciences. Kammerevert joined the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1984, influenced by the anti-nuclear movement, and was first a member of the board of the Regional Young Socialists Group of the Lower Rhine SPD Group between 1987 and 1990. From 1992 to 1995, she chaired the Young Socialists Group of the SPD in Düsseldorf. Since 1997, she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the SPD Düsseldorf. Between 1999 and 2009, she was a member of the Düsseldorf City Council. Since 2004, she has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the Lower Rhine SPD region. Since 2012, Kammerevert has been a member of the SPD in North Rhine-Westphalia. At national level, she is also a member of the Executive Committee of the SPD Media Committee.

Kammerevert began working as a parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament in 1992 and was elected as an MEP in 2009 on the list of the SPD for North Rhine-Westphalia. She is a member of the parliamentary group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

In the European Parliament, she has been a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, also responsible for media policy, information, youth and sport. She was the coordinator of her parliamentary group in the committee from 2012 to 2016 and again from 2019 to the present. She was Chair of the Committee from 2017 to 2019. Kammerevert was selected in 2016 as co-rapporteur of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, which sought to introduce levies and cultural quotas on services such as streaming websites. She has been Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-ME) since 2019.

Petra Kammerevert (R) at the Constitutive meeting of the Committee on Culture and Education © European Union 2019 - European Parliament

Kammerevert has also been a substitute in the Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-AL). During the 7th parliamentary term, she was a member of the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee and of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (DASE) as well as a substitute of the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. She also was a member of the European Parliament’s Digital Agenda Intergroup.

For more information on her time as an MEP, click here.

Selected plenary speeches

Having served as co-rapporteur for the revised Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) in 2016, the Committee on Culture and Education appointed Petra Kammerevert rapporteur for the own-initiative report on the implementation of the revised AVMSD in 2022. In this capacity, she addressed the plenary session on 8 May 2023:

Petra Kammerevert spoke in the plenary debate on 28 March 2019 in her capacity as shadow rapporteur for the Committee on Culture and Education's report on the regulation establishing 'Erasmus+': the Union programme for education, training, youth and sport. She urged that the funding of the Erasmus programme be tripled in order to ensure its continued success:

At the plenary session on 26 October 2011, Petra Kammerevert spoke in her capacity as rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education on the proposal for a Directive on combating the sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children and child pornography:

At the plenary session on 9 May 2011, Petra Kammerevert, in her capacity as rapporteur for the opinion of the Committee on Culture and Education on establishing the first radio spectrum policy programme, emphasised the need to ensure that both public and private broadcasters can continue their vital function as guarantors of media pluralism and diversity of opinion in Europe:

What's in the archives?

Education, culture and the digital world are the predominant themes in Kammerevert's archives. The documents relate to reports and opinions in the Committee on Culture and Education where Petra Kammerevert has been a member and Chair. This is a set of documents collected for information and for the preparation of dossiers on the following subjects:

• Sexual exploitation and abuse of children
• The contribution of young people to solidarity
• The Erasmus for All programme
• The European single market for electronic communications
• Media services
• Collective management of copyright

The documents within the files include reports, versions of reports and amendments, in addition to publications, emails, press articles, etc.