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