Tom Berendsen is a Member of the European Parliament and he has been elected on behalf of the Christen Democratisch Appèl of the Netherlands and is member of the Group of the European People’s Party.As MEP, he is member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on Regional Development, as well as of the Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament. He is also substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism, the Delegation to the Cariforum-EU Parliamentary Committee, and the Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee.