Petri Sarvamaa is a member of the National Coalition party in Finland and a Member of the European Parliament since 2012 in the EPP group. He is currently a full member of the AGRI Committee and member and Vice-Coordinator of the EPP Group in the CONT committee. He holds the position of Vice-President in the EPP's internal Working Group on Budget and Structural Policies. He was the rapporteur for the European Parliament's Own Initiative Report on the EU Forest Strategy post-2020.