Romana Tomc

Romana Tomc (born 2 November 1965) is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. She is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party.

Romana Tomc MEP
Vice-Chair of the European People's Party in the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 June 2024[1]
Chair	Manfred Weber
Serving alongside	François-Xavier Bellamy Andrzej Halicki Jeroen Lenaers Dolors Montserrat Siegfried Mureșan Lídia Pereira Massimiliano Salini Tomas Tobé Željana Zovko
Preceded by	See list Arnaud Danjean Frances Fitzgerald Rasa Juknevičienė Jeroen Lenaers Vangelis Meimarakis Dolors Montserrat Siegfried Mureşan Jan Olbrycht Željana Zovko Lídia Pereira
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Constituency	Slovenia
Member of the National Assembly
In office 21 December 2011 – 30 June 2014
Personal details
Born	(1965-11-02) 2 November 1965 (age 59) Ljubljana, Slovenia
Political party	Slovenian Democratic Party
Other political affiliations	European People's Party
Website	www.romanatomc.si

Political career

Tomc has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 elections. In parliament, she has since been serving on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.

In addition to her committee assignments, Tomc is part of the parliament's 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. She is also a supporter of the MEP Alliance for Mental Health^[2] and the MEPs Against Cancer group.^[3]

On the national level, Tomc was the candidate of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) in the 22 October 2017 presidential election, challenging incumbent Borut Pahor.^[4][5]

Recognition

In December 2020, Tomc received the Employment, Social Affairs and Regions award at The Parliament Magazine's annual MEP Awards.^[6]