Janusz Wojciechowski

Janusz Czesław Wojciechowski (born 6 December 1954) is a Polish politician of Law and Justice who served as European Commissioner for Agriculture in the Von der Leyen Commission I from 2019 to 2024. He previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2016 and as the Polish member of the European Court of Auditors from 2016 to 2019.

Wojciechowski was member of United People's Party, a Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party (EPP) from 2004 to 2006 and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. He was dismissed from the PSL following his decision to leave the EPP for the Union for Europe of the Nations EU parliamentary grouping. Wojciechowski was a substitute for the Committee on Budgetary Control and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

He ran on the Law and Justice list in the 2009 election, despite not being a party member. In November 2010, he joined Law and Justice.

Career 1977–1980: Articled to the public prosecutor 1980–1993: Judge on the district court of Rawa Mazowiecka, judge on the provincial court of Skierniewice, judge on the appellate court of Warsaw 1995–2001: President of the Supreme Chamber of Control 1993–1995, 2001–2004: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic 1994–1995: Under-secretary of State at the Cabinet Office for legislative affairs 1995–1999: Member of the Administration of EUROSAI – European Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions 2001–2004: Vice-marshal of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Codifying Changes Committee 2003-2002: Member of the Chief Executive Committee of the Polish People's Party (PSL) 2004–2005: Chairman PSL 2003–2004: Observer to the EP 2004-2016: Member of the EP 2016-2019: Member of the European Court of Auditors 2019-2024: European Commissioner for Agriculture