Janusz Lewandowski, born 13 June 1951 in Lublin, is a Polish economist and politician belonging to the Gdansk liberals group, and a Member of the European Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), and Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. He has been designated Member of the EC in charge of Budget and Financial Programming. Each Member designate of the EC faced a hearing with MEPs. The committee covering the area of competence of each Member of the EC will hold a hearing from 11 to 19 January 2010. In advance of the hearing by the European Parliament of the Member designate of the EC on 11/01/2010, the Audiovisual Service of the European Commission has produced a stockshots, which contains the following footages: - the Member designate of the EC walking in the streets in Sopot in Poland, ad walking on the beach; - and the Member designate of the EC at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.