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Maroš Šefčovič's team

Maroš Šefčovič's team supports him in his daily work.

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Bernd Biervert
Head of Cabinet
Bernd Biervert
Email
bernd [dot] biervertatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 56887
Responsibilities
  • Overall co-ordination and management of the Cabinet
  • Strategic management and coordination of the Cabinet
  • Relations with the President’s Cabinet
  • Personnel matters
  • Preparation of Commission meetings
  • Security
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Deputy Head of Cabinet
Sofia Asteriadi
Email
sofia [dot] asteriadiatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 57103
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Deputising the Head of Cabinet
  • Relations with the European Parliament, including the European Green Deal, foresight and EU/UK relations;
  • Commission Work Programme and inter-institutional programming
  • Inter-institutional relations (coordination)
  • Group for Inter-institutional relations (GRI)
  • Coordination of relations with Switzerland
  • Right of initiative, right of inquiry
  • Framework agreement with the European Parliament
  • Inter-institutional agreement on Better Law-Making
  • Group for External relations (ExCO)
  • International cooperation (relations with third countries and organisations including WB, IMF, WEF, etc.)
  • Coordination with SG and LS, relations with Cabs Schinas, Jourová (except on ethics body), Reynders, Johansson, Borrell, Urpilainen,
  • Relations with Greece, Cyprus

Non-portfolio

  • Justice, Fundamental Rights (incl. data protection) and Citizenship
  • Security Union
  • Migration and Home affairs
  • Neighbourhood (migration-related)
  • European External Action Service
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Cabinet Expert/Communication Advisor
Renáta Goldírová
Email
renata [dot] goldirovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 94671
Responsibilities

Portfolio:

  • Strategic communication, media activities, coordination of speeches, digital and online media
  • General Affairs Council
  • Relations with the Council
  • Coordination with DG COMM and SPP
  • Relations with international and Slovak media
  • Relations with Slovak constituency
  • Relations with CabVárhelyi
  • Relations with Croatia, SIovenia

Non-portfolio:

  • Neighbourhood and Enlargement
Adam Romanowski
Cabinet Expert
Adam Romanowski
Email
adam [dot] romanowskiatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 60847
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • European Green Deal and Climate Action Coordination
  • Internal Energy market, electricity, security of gas supply, TEN-E
  • Methane emissions
  • EU Energy Platform
  • International energy relations, International Energy Agency, IRENA
  • Member States’ implementation (incl. monitoring of transposition/gold plating - with CS) and enforcement (incl. infringements procedure)
  • Coordination with ENER, relations with Cabs Simson, Dombrovskis (Investment/EIB),
  • Relations with Poland
Gabriela Kečkéšová
Member of the Cabinet
Gabriela Kečkéšová
Email
gabriela [dot] keckesovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 62732
Responsibilities

Portfolio

  • Relations with Slovak constituency
  • Support on Inter-institutional relations
  • Relations with the European Parliament, including relations with PETI
  • Petitions
  • Relations with National Parliaments
  • Relations with the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
  • Relations with Cabs Ferreira, Ivanova (translation and interpretation), Jourová (European Citizens’Initiatives and independent ethics body)
  • Relations with Slovakia, Hungary and Czechia

Non-portfolio

  • European Citizens' Initiatives
  • Regional Policy
  • Translation
  • Interpretation
  • Code of conduct, ethics and transparency (incl. independent ethics body) and access to documents
Member of the Cabinet
Virginie Battu-Henriksson
Email
virginie [dot] battu-henrikssonatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 89611
Responsibilities

Portfolio:

  • Strategic foresight coordination
  • Relations with academia and think tanks
  • Citizens’ dialogues, including green dialogues
  • Global Covenant of Mayors, Covenant of Mayors – overall coordination
  • Coordination of relations with Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (EEA, EFTA States)
  • Coordination of relations with Andorra, Monaco and San Marino
  • Support on EU-UK relations
  • Conference on the Future of Europe
  • Coordination with the JRC (foresight), relations with Cabs Vestager (Digital), Breton (digital, defence and space), Šuica
  • Relations with France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Finland

Non-portfolio:

  • Defence and Space
  • Digital agenda
  • Democracy and Demography
  • Education and Culture, Youth and Sport
Carsten Schierenbeck
Member of the Cabinet
Carsten Schierenbeck
Email
carsten [dot] schierenbeckatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 60767
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Better regulation and simplification
  • Regulatory burden ("One In, One Out" principle, e-government/digitalisation of public administration)
  • Refit/Fit for Future Platform
  • Relations with RegHub
  • Impact Assessments and Evaluations
  • Subsidiarity and proportionality
  • Regulatory Scrutiny Board
  • Public consultations and Calls for Evidence
  • Groups for Inter-institutional relations (GRI) and External relations (EXCO), in cooperation with the Deputy Head of Cabinet
  • Support on relations with Switzerland
  • Support on inter-institutional relations, including relations with the European Parliament (including JURI)
  • Delegated and implementing acts (comitology)
  • Relations with EU decentralised agencies (coordination)
  • Relations with Cabs Hahn, Breton (industry)
  • Relations with National Parliaments
  • Relations with Germany, Austria and Denmark

Non-portfolio

  • Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
  • Budget (including MFF and the Financial Regulation) and Human Resources
  • Discharge procedure
  • Anti-fraud/OLAF, European Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • Court of Auditors, Internal Audit Service, Publication Office
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Member of the Cabinet
Jan Hendrik Dopheide
Email
jan-hendrik [dot] dopheideatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 57600
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • Coordination of relations with the UK
  • Implementation of the EU/UK Withdrawal Agreement
  • Implementation of the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
  • Relations with the Council (EU-UK relations)
  • Relations with Cabs Dombrovskis (trade), McGuinness
  • Relations with Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Ireland

Non-portfolio

  • Trade
  • Financial Stability, Services and Capital Markets
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Member of the Cabinet
Kamil Talbi
Email
kamil [dot] talbiatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 53083
Responsibilities

Portfolio 

  • European Battery Alliance
  • Critical Raw Materials
  • Relations with Cabs Breton (Critical Raw Materials and key value chains), Schmit, Dalli
  • Relations with Italy, Malta

Non-portfolio

  • Jobs and Social affairs (including social dialogue and skills)
  • Equality
  • Taxations and Customs Union
Member of the Cabinet
Marina Brakalova
Email
marina [dot] brakalovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 13737
Responsibilities

Portfolio:

  • 'Farm to fork' strategy
  • Strategic dialogue on the future of agriculture in the EU
  • Water strategy
  • Soil strategy
  • Zero pollution
  • Coordination with AGRI, SANTE, relations with Cabinets Kyriakides, Sinkevičius (zero pollution, soil and water) and Wojciechowski
  • Relations with Bulgaria
Rozalina Petrova
Member of the Cabinet
Rozalina Petrova
Email
rozalina [dot] petrovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 94792
Responsibilities

Portfolio:

  • Circular economy agenda, including sustainable product policy, packaging, textiles, end-of-life vehicles, plastics, secondary raw materials, waste
  • Biodiversity and ecosystems, including the implementation of the EU 2030 Biodiversity Strategy, Nature Restoration Law, global deforestation, and Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • EU 2030 Forest Strategy, forest monitoring
  • EU and global climate adaptation agenda
  • EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability
  • Coordination with ENVI, MARE, ECHO, relations with Cabinets Sinkevičius, Lenarčič
  • Relations with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Non-portfolio:

  • UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • International Cooperation and Development
  • Humanitarian aid
Dino Toljan
Member of the Cabinet
Dino Toljan
Email
dino [dot] toljanatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 83070
Responsibilities
  • Climate, including the Emissions Trading System (ETS, ETS 2), CORSIA, relations with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Innovation Fund, Modernisation Fund Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)
  • Energy governance, including National Energy and Climate Plans
  • Climate law
  • Social Climate Fund
  • EMAS (Internal Commission climate neutrality)
  • Montreal Protocol, ozone depleting substances and fluorinated gases
  • Environment Council coordination
  • Coordination with CLIMA, relations with Cabinet Hoekstra
  • Relations with Croatia, Slovenia

Non-portfolio:

  • UNFCCC/COP
Aleksandra Baranska
Policy Coordinator
Aleksandra Baranska
Email
aleksandra [dot] baranskaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 90636
Responsibilities

Portfolio:

  • Hydrogen
  • Just Transition
  • Clean mobility
  • Nuclear energy, safety, ITER fusion project, Euratom
  • Coordination with MOVE, REGIO (JTF), relations with Cabinets Valean, Ferreira (Just transition), Vestager, Ivanova (Research and Innovation)
  • Relations with Romania

Non-portfolio:

  • Competition policy (incl. anti-trust, merger and state aid)
  • Research and Innovation
  • Eurostat
David Knight
Speechwriter
David Knight
Email
david [dot] knightatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 89365
Responsibilities
  • Speech writing and publications for the Executive Vice-President
  • Webmaster
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Document management officer
Rudolf Kloiber
Email
rudolf [dot] kloiberatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 69829
Responsibilities
  • Document Management Office (DMO)
  • Preparation of files for meetings of the College of Commissioners
  • Preparation of files for weekly meetings of Heads of Cabinet
  • Parliamentary questions
  • Local Security Office (LSO)
  • Data protection contact point
  • Business Continuity Coordinator
  • IT and training correspondent
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Administrative assistant to the Executive Vice-President
Beata Podhorná
Email
beata [dot] podhornaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 75990
Responsibilities
  • Executive Vice-President's agenda and missions
  • Protocol
  • Slovak correspondence
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Assistant to the Executive Vice-President
Dáša Zemková
Email
dasa [dot] zemkovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 99799
Responsibilities
  • Executive Vice-President´s agenda
  • Executive Vice-President´s missions
  • Slovak correspondence
  • Relations with Slovak constituency
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Assistant to the Head of Cabinet
Laurence Bastin
Email
laurence [dot] bastinatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 80926
Responsibilities
  • Coordination of Cabinet's administrative and logistical matters
  • Leave officer (Human Resources)
  • Contact point Cabinet/DGs
  • Coordination of Cabinet's budget
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Assistant to the Deputy Head of Cabinet
Amélie Morand
Email
amelie [dot] morandatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 50773
Responsibilities
  • Contact point Cabinet/European Parliament
  • Preparation for the Group on Inter-institutional Relations (GRI)
  • Preparation for the Group for External Cooperation (EXCO)
  • Plenary session preparation
  • Protocol EP
  • Coordination of briefings
Cidalia Santos
Assistant to Adam Romanowski
Cidalia Santos
Email
cidalia [dot] santosatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 52587
Responsibilities
  • Back up for Document Management Officer – DMO
  • Contact point Cabinet/ENER
Vasilka Lyubenova
Assistant to Marina Brakalova and Rozalina Petrova
Vasilka Lyubenova
Email
vasilka [dot] lyubenovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 59595
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Assistant to Dino Toljan and Aleksandra Baranska
Katarzyna Dudzinska
Email
katarzyna [dot] dudzinskaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 55012
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Assistant to Carsten Schierenbeck and Kamil Talbi
Zuzana Lysá
Email
zuzana [dot] lysaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 72213
Responsibilities
  • Contact point for the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB
  • Contact point for the Joint Research Centre
  • Contact point for social partners
  • Contact point Cabinet/CoR/EESC
  • Contact point Cabinet/National Parliaments
  • Contact point Cabinet/Agencies
  • Contact point Blue Book trainees
  • Correspondent for Special Advisors
  • Correspondent for petitions
Virginie Blancher
Assistant to Virginie Battu-Henriksson and Jan Hendrik Dopheide
Virginie Blancher
Email
virginie [dot] blancheratec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 80064
Responsibilities
  • Contact point Cabinet/UKS
  • Contact point Council of the European Union
  • Contact point Conference on the Future of Europe
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Assistant to Renáta Goldírová and Gabriela Kečkéšová
Simona Giorgini
Email
simona [dot] giorginiatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 90094
Responsibilities
  • Contact point for DG Communication and the Spokesperson’s Service
  • Contact point for the Ombudsman
Jana Kestlerova
Trainee
Jana Kestlerova
Email
jana [dot] kestlerovaatec [dot] europa [dot] eu
Phone number
+32 2 29 55719
Grégoire Neveu
Trainee
Grégoire Neveu
Email
gregoire [dot] neveuatec [dot] europa [dot] eu