On 22 February 2018, Marcin Ociepa, a Member of the ECR Group in the European Committee of the Regions, was made Undersecretary of State in Poland's Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He will be responsible for European affairs.

Commenting on his appointment, Mr Ociepa said that "we need common sense in economic relations with the European Union, which is provided by Poland's local and regional elected representatives. And this is not entirely a foreign policy matter – rather, it is European Union domestic policy, in which we play an important role."

Mr Ociepa is Deputy Coordinator of the ECR Group in the CIVEX Commission (Commission for Citizenship, Governance, Institutional and External Affairs) and was the rapporteur for the CoR opinion entitled "strategic approach to resilience in the EU's external action". His recommendations on this topic were adopted unanimously at the CoR plenary session last October.

Since 2014, Mr Ociepa has been President of Opole City Council; he was Vice-President from 2010 to 2014. In 2009-2010, he coordinated the project "Citizen initiative for the development strategy of Opole – Opole 2050". He is an academic at the University of Opole.