Career in national politics • 2002-2004: Chairman of the Policy Council of the Social Movement • since 2004: Member of the National Council of the Citizens' Platform • 1990-1998: Mayor and member of the
town council in
Cieszyn • 1998-2004: Regional Councillor of the Silesian Voivodeship • 1998-2002: Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship • 1995-2001: Vice-Chairman of the
Council of European Municipalities and Regions • 2000-2004: Member of the Organisation of the Assembly of European Regions (ARE) • 2004: Member of the World Council of United Cities and Local Governments • 2000-2004: Member of the National Council for Regional Policy • since 2003: Member of the Committee for National Spatial Planning,
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
Member of the European Parliament, 2004–present Olbrycht has been a
Member of the European Parliament since the
2004 European elections. In parliament, he has since served on the
Committee on Regional Development (2004–2014), the
Committee on Budgetary Control (2009–2011) and the
Committee on Budgets (since 2014). In the latter capacity, he is the parliament's
co-rapporteur (alongside
Margarida Marques) on the European Union's
Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021–2027. In addition to his committee assignments, Olbrycht has been part of the parliament's delegations for relations with
China (2004–2009);
Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia,
Montenegro and
Kosovo (2009–2014); the countries of Southeast Asia and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (2014–2019); and
Canada (since 2019). He also chairs the URBAN Intergroup and is a member of the European Internet Forum. Following the
2019 elections, Olbrycht was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's four-year work program on digitization. Within the centre-right
European People's Party Group (EPP) group, Olbrycht is one of the deputies of chairman
Manfred Weber. In 2021, he was appointed to the group's task force for proposing changes to its rules of procedure to allow for “the possibility of the collective termination of membership of a group of Members rather than just individual membership”, alongside
Esteban González Pons,
Othmar Karas,
Esther de Lange and
Paulo Rangel. ==Decorations and awards==