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Head of Cabinet

Marc Vanheukelen
Marc Vanheukelen

Secretary: Mariana Vaclavova

Responsibilities
  • General Coordination
  • Preparation of Commission Meetings
  • Relations with the Secretariat General (SG), Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA)
  • Personnel Questions

Deputy Head of Cabinet

Frank Hoffmeister
Frank Hoffmeister

Secretary: Myriam Gonzalez Alonso

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • World Trade Organization (WTO) and dispute settlement
    • G 20
    • Agriculture and Geographic Indications
    • Trade Defense Instruments
    • Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
    • Public Procurement
    • Investment and services
  • Geographic Attributions
    • Relations with Germany, United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal
  • Collegiality
    • Agriculture
    • Groupe des Relations Interinstitutionelles (GRI)

Members

Claes Bengtsson
Claes Bengtsson

Secretary: Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • EU 2020
    • Trade Defense Instruments
  • Geographic attributions
    • North America (including TEC)
    • Relations with Denmark and Ireland
  • Collegiality
    • Competition
    • Industrial Policy
    • Economic and monetary affairs
    • Budget
    • Financial Services
Elena Peresso
Elena Peresso

Secretary: Katerina Rybarova

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
    • Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)
    • Trade and labour as well as other social questions
    • Trade and migration
    • Trade and development
    • Trade and security
    • Relations with the European Parliament
  • Geographic Attributions
    • Sub-Saharan African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
    • Latin America
    • Relations with Malta and Italy
  • Collegiality
    • External relations, Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), European External Action Service (EEAS)
    • Development
    • Humanitarian Aid and crisis management
Marjut Hannonen
Marjut Hannonen

Secretary: Katerina Rybarova

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
    • Biotech
    • Market access
    • Sectoral trade issues
    • Relations with the Council
    • Technical barriers to Trade
    • Rules of Origin
  • Geographic Attributions
    • India
    • South East Asia
    • China and the rest of the Far East (including HED)
    • Australia – New Zealand
    • Relations with Sweden and Finland
  • Collegiality
    • Health and Consumers
    • Research and innovation
    • Taxation, Customs Union, Anti-fraud
Bernard Bulcke
Bernard Bulcke

Secretary: Florence Voets

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • Dialogue with civil society
    • Trade in media and cultural goods and services
    • Writing of articles
    • Contacts with Belgian Press
  • Geographic attributions
    • Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
    • Western Balkans and Turkey
    • Middle East
    • North Africa
    • Relations with Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg
  • Collegiality
    • Digital economy
    • Education, youth
    • Regional Policy
    • Enlargement
    • GRI
Catherine Bril
Catherine Bril

Secretary: Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken

Responsibilities
  • Thematic Attributions
    • Trade and Energy
    • Trade and raw materials
    • Intellectual Property including counterfeiting and origin markings
    • Relations with Economic and Social Committee, Committee of the Regions and Court of Auditors
    • Relations with the Ombudsman
    • Access to Documents
  • Geographic attributions
    • Russia
    • Eastern Partnership countries
    • Central Asia
    • Relations with Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Baltic Republics, Austria and France
  • Collegiality
    • Administration
    • Energy
    • Employment and Social Affairs
    • Transport
Gerrit Spriet
Assistant
Gerrit Spriet

Secretary: Florence Voets

Responsibilities
  • Thematic attributions
    • Trade and Fisheries questions
    • Trade and Environment
  • Geographic attributions
    • Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) – European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA)
    • Relations with Greece, Slovenia, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria
  • Collegiality
    • Internal Market
    • Home affairs
    • Justice and fundamental rights
    • Fisheries and Maritime Policy
    • Infringements
    • Environment and climate
    • Citizenship

Spokesperson

Wojtek Talko (acting)
Wojtek Talko

Marta Ausín García

John Clancy (on leave)
John Clancy

Marta Ausín García

Press officer

Maria Lyra Traversa
Maria Lyra Traversa

Hearing officer

Gerhard Hannes Welge
Gerhard Hannes Welge

Assistant: Karlota DUMITRU

Responsibilities
  • To safeguard the effective exercise of the procedural rights of the interested parties.
  • To ensure that trade proceeding provided in the regulations are handled impartially, fairly and within a reasonable time.

Find out more about the role of the Hearing Officer

Secretaries and Assistants

Ann De Lange
Secretary to the Commissioner
Ann De Lange
Responsibilities
  • Agenda
Veronika Kutilova
Secretary to the Commissioner
Veronika Kutilova
Responsibilities
  • Missions
Florence Voets
Secretary to Bernard Bulcke and Gerrit Spriet
Florence Voets
Myriam Gonzalez Alonso
Secretary to Deputy Head of Cabinet
Myriam Gonzalez
Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken
Secretary to Claes Bengtsson and Cathy Bril
Dagmara Chodzicka-Merken
Mariana Vaclavova
Secretary to Head of cabinet Marc Vanheukelen
Mariana Vaclavova
Katerina Rybarova
Secretary to Elena Peresso and Marjut Hannonen
Katerina Rybarova
Marta Ausin-Garcia
Assistant to John Clancy
Karlota DUMITRU
Assistant to Gerhard Hannes Welge

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