EDUCATION
1960-1964 University Kiel and München (law and history)
1964-1968 Trainee official in Germany and France
1965-1966 Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), France
1967 Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer, Germany
1968 State examination in law, Hamburg
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
1968 Research assistant, University Kiel
1969-2004 Judge, Landgericht Kiel, since then retired
1972-2004 Official, Commission EU, since then retired
1972 DG Competition, Consumer law
1973 DG Environment
1984 head of unit legal aspects and application of EU environmental law
1995 head of unit waste management
2001 head of unit environmental governance
Presently Derecho y Medio Ambiente (Environmental Legal Consultancy), Madrid
Director of EU Aarhus Centre, ClientEarth, Brussels
ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Doctor in law, Hamburg (EC consumer law)
Professor in European and German environmental law, Bremen 2002-2009
Honorary Professor Gent (2003-2005) and Copenhagen (2005-2010)
Visiting Professor, University College London,
Lecturer College of Europe, Bruges, 2002-2010
PUBLICATIONS
EU Environmental Law, 7th ed.2011(BG 2009, SP 2009, HU 2012)
Droit de l’environnement de l'UE 2011
European Environmental Law; collection of essays (ed.) 2003
Recht und Um-Welt. Essays in honour of G.Winter (ed.) 2003
Casebook on EU Environmental Law, 2002 ( DE 2002, ES 2007))
Umweltrecht der EG - Textsammlung. 4th ed.2001
Codice dell'ambiente - norme comunitarie (with M.Onida) 2001
Die Umsetzung des europ.Umweltrechts in Österreich (with F.Ermacora)2000
Essays in honour of N.Reich (co-ed.)1997
Focus on European Environmental Law vol.1 and 2 1997
Derecho medioambiental de la UE(with L.Parejo) 1997
More than 250 articles on EU environmental law
