Dagmar Roth-Behrendt (born 21 February 1953, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German lawyer who served as Member of the European Parliament. She was elected on the SPD ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group.

Roth-Behrendt was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2014. From 2004 until 2007 and from 2009 to 2012 she served as one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament, first under the leadership of President Josep Borrell and later Jerzy Buzek.

Throughout her time in parliament, Roth-Behrendt served on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In 1997, she chaired the temporary committee of inquiry into the European Commission's dealing with a BSE outbreak.^[1] She later served as rapporteur on the EU medical device regulation.^[2][3]

In addition to her committee assignments, Roth-Behrendt was part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand from 1994 until 2004.^[4] In 2013, she was one of six candidates for the post of European Ombudsman; the role eventually went to Emily O’Reilly instead.^[5]

Since 2015, Roth-Behrendt has been serving as Special Adviser to Development Cooperation to European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis on reforming the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE).^[6][7] From 2016 to 2022, she also served on the Commission's Independent Ethical Committee.^[8][9][10]

• 2009 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Roht-Behrendt is married to former European Commission official Horst Reichenbach.