Jean-Claude Fruteau (6 June 1947 – 28 April 2022)^[1] was a French politician and a Member of the European Parliament for France's "outre mer" from 1999 to 2007. He was a member of the Socialist Party, which was part of the Party of European Socialists, and was vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

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He was also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and a substitute for the delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

• Highest postgraduate teaching qualification in language and literature (CAPES) (1972)
• Teacher in higher education, with the highest postgraduate teaching qualification
• First federal secretary, Réunion Socialist Party (1981–2000)
• Mayor of Saint-Benoît (Réunion) (1983–1999)
• Member of the Réunion Departmental Council (since 1982)
• Member of the European Parliament (1999–2007)
• Member of the French Parliament (2007–2017)