Speaker
Georges Kremlis: Head of the “Cohesion Policy and Environmental Impact Assessments” Unit in the Directorate‐General for the Environment of the European Commission.
Outline
The Cohesion policy ‐ The environmental policy ‐ The environmental integration ‐ principle; Art. 11 TFEU ‐ The environmental integration as a principle common to Climate and Environment policies ‐ Biodiversity and climate proofing in the Cohesion policy ‐ Vertical and horizontal environmental integration ‐ other EU policy areas: transport, energy, TENs – Environmental assessments tools ‐ The MFF and environmental integration
Biography
Georges Kremlis has started his career in the EU in 1981. He has joined as a Head of Unit DG ENV in 1995 and has served since then as the Head of the Legal and the Governance Units. Before joining DG Environment, he was a Legal advisor (from January 1981) in the European Commission’s Legal Service, with an interruption of three years (1990‐1993) in Greece. In that period he exercised the functions of Advisor to the Greek Minister of National Economy (1990), National co‐ordinator for the EC internal market (1990‐1992), Head of the EC Committee under the Greek Prime Minister (1993) and Secretary General for the European affairs in the Ministry of National Economy (1993).