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Career

György Páczay was born into a family of engineers, but since his childhood he has decided to deal with the European Union, especially with Community Law. In 2004 he graduated as a lawyer at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. In 2005, he obtained a Master of European Law (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies Droit Communautaire) from the Central European Institute of Nancy University in France. Here, he met the EU's Common Agricultural Policy. Ives Petit, who trained the subject, had a great impact on him, as he did not only give a theoretical but a practical insight to him from „practically the only common policy of the European Union”. His lectures clearly depicted land and landscape, the love of nature and animals, and the presentation of agriculture as an activity as a blessed work. György then participated in an internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary on the one hand, where he focused on the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, and on the other, in the second half of 2006 he was admitted to the European Union's Legal Service Youth Support Program, where he observed at first hand the operation and legal development of the Common Agricultural Policy. From 2007 to 2013 he worked in the Ministry of Agriculture of Hungary. He has been involved in legal harmonization, legislative and international trade issues, and then he has gained insights into the everyday functioning of rural development policy. However, he spent most of his time with the Common Agricultural Policy: in the Department for EU Coordination, he acquired the insight of policy making in the European Union under the wings of László Vajda Dr. He has been working in Brussels since 2013 in the European Parliament (EP). It is a special honour for him to contribute to the outcome of debates on the future of the EU and Hungary's agriculture, fisheries and agri-trade issues by his work in the EP, and in particular in its Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, Committee on Fisheries and the Working Party for Agriculture of the European People's Party (EPP). Furthermore, the United Nations’ Global Alliance on Climate-smart Agriculture (GACSA), where he is a permanent member, is an excellent forum for valuable proposals for combating climate change, which is causing increasing problems for all the World's farmers, including the EU and Hungarian farmers. In addition to English, he speaks French at advanced level.

Positions
 * He is a policy adviser in agricultural, rural development, food safety, fishery and agri-trade issues to the Hungarian EPP delegation in the European Parliament and to Norbert Erdős MEP.
 * He is a member of the Working Party for Agriculture of the EPP (chaired by Christian Schmidt German Federal Minister for Agriculture and Michel Dantin MEP in the EPP)
 * He is a member and regular author of CEDR - Hungarian Agricultural Law Association
 * He is a member of the Hungarian Gastronomic Association
 * He participates in the UN Global Alliance for Climate-smart Agriculture (GACSA) also supported by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Professional work
 * He regularly publishes both Hungarian and foreign languages, for example in the “Mezőhír” agricultural journals (titles of some articles: Where to go for TTIP?, Steps and tasks to tackle agricultural sector crises, Simplification steps announced in November in direct payments and greening), in the widely recognised Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Law (eg. Another political step towards developing our own GM-free feed, http://epa.oszk.hu/01000/01040/00024/pdf/EPA01040_agrar_es_kornyezetjog_22.pdf) and the Agrarszektor.hu” online page (eg. Ez így nem megy - Súlyos terhet raknak a nyakunkba, https://www.agrarszektor.hu/agrarpenzek/ez-igy-nem-megy-sulyos-terhet-raknak-a-nyakunkba.5424.html).
 * He has been presenting lectures on the EU Common Agricultural Policy at many professional conferences either in Hungary (Hungarian Agricultural Fairs at Budapest - OMÉK, Portfolio Professional Conferences (https://www.agrarszektor.hu/agrarpenzek/megbukott-a-kap-reform-idje-merleget-vonni.6311.html), the Forum of the International Scientific Events in Bulgaria, https://www.flickr.com/photos/internationalscientificevents/27778730492/in/album-72157667456663383/, the 11th Global World Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries in Japan).

Social engagement
 * In 2014 he made a lot to achieve the objectives of the so-called Acacia-coalition which resulted the official proclamation of the “black-locust” and the “acacia honey” as Recognised Piece of Hungarian Heritage (Hungarikum). Furthermore, he deeply contributed to the wide success of the EP-report on “Prospects and challenges for the EU apiculture sector” adopted in 2018 and known as “Honey-report” as the professional coordinator of it, which pushed the EU beekeeping sector again to the centre of gravity (http://www.eppgroup.eu/press-release/Safeguarding-European-honey-production).
 * As a member of the CEDR - Hungarian Agricultural Law Association, he conducts comparative research on certain agricultural legal and agricultural policy challenges and problems arising in certain Western European countries (eg. France, Netherlands, Austria, Spain) and Hungary and he deals with possible solutions to certain agricultural policy challenges for the EU as a whole.
 * As a member of the Hungarian Gastronomic Association, he is dedicated together with Norbert Erdős MEP to bring Hungarian gastronomy back to its traditional position and role. They want to assist developing a wide range of farmer markets providing high-quality food material and ensuring a firm economic background for that in order to have real farm chicken at home and not to import that form France, for example.
 * As a member of GACSA, György argues that we cannot wait any more for the general introduction and application of climate-smart farming practices which consume less our natural resources. The sad example of climate change is the so-called El-Nino type drought, which for some years has unknowingly caused a cruel drought in the Republic of South Africa. This can happen anywhere in the world, even in Europe, so we have to commonly find a solution to this problem.