Mariann Fischer Boel

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Mariann Fischer Boel
Fischer Boel in 2008
European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
In office 22 November 2004 – 9 February 2010
President	José Manuel Barroso
Preceded by	Franz Fischler Sandra Kalniete (Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries)
Succeeded by	Dacian Cioloş
Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
In office 27 November 2001 – 2 August 2004
Prime Minister	Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Preceded by	Ritt Bjerregaard
Succeeded by	Hans Christian Schmidt
Personal details
Born	(1943-04-15) 15 April 1943 (age 81) Åsum, Denmark
Political party	Venstre

Mariann Fischer Boel (Danish pronunciation: [mɑʁiˈæn ˈfiɕɐ ˈpoˀl]; born 15 April 1943) is a Danish politician, serving as European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development from 2004 to 2009. A member of the party Venstre, she had previously been minister of agriculture and foods since 2002, in the government of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

In 2004 Fischer Boel became EU Commissioner for Agriculture. During her tenure, preparations were made to thoroughly reform the Common Market Organization for Sugar or EU sugar quotas system. This consisted of a restructuring of the sector, which would make it competitive enough to stand its ground on a liberalized market.

In 2008, she was given the European Taxpayers' Award from the Taxpayers' Association of Europe for her decision to abolish export refunds for exports of live cattle from the EU, and for her ongoing efforts to improve the transparency of agricultural payments.

In 2008, she was presented with the Danish European Movement's price for "European of the Year".

In 2008, she was awarded the Wine Personality of the Year 2008 award by the International Wine Challenge, which said, about her efforts to drag the European wine industry into the 21st century, that "family vineyards might have been pulled up and the family winemaking tradition lost had it not been for the intrepid heroine from the north".

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