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Biography

Director in the Legal Service of the European Commission, where he has been working since 1996 in the teams for internal market, competition, external relations, and agriculture and fisheries. He studied both law and political science, graduating in 1989 and 1990 respectively, and undertook postgraduate studies at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He worked in the chambers of the President of the European Court of Justice between 1997 and 2002 and he has been agent for the European Commission in over 450 cases in the European Court of Justice. He regularly speaks at conferences, and he has published widely on the relationship between legal orders (international, EU and national), competition law, judicial review and litigation before EU Courts, the external relations of the EU, and the internal market