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Head of Cabinet
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Marta Ausín García
John Clancy (on leave)
Marta Ausín García
Press officer
Maria Lyra Traversa
Hearing officer
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.
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Secretaries and Assistants
Ann De Lange
Secretary to the Commissioner
Responsibilities
- Agenda
Veronika Kutilova
Secretary to the Commissioner
Responsibilities
- Missions