Thierry STOLL appointed Deputy Director General in DG Internal Market

IP/02/1754

Brussels, 27 November 2002

Thierry STOLL appointed Deputy Director General in DG Internal Market

The Commission has today decided to appoint Mr. Thierry Stoll, a Commission official from Luxembourg, as Deputy Director General in the Internal Market DG. He will be responsible for the DG's complaints and infringements policy, relations with the European Parliament, as well as two directorates covering public procurement, the free movement of goods, postal services and regulated professions.

Mr. Stoll holds a degree in international and community law from Aix-en-Provence. He originally joined the European Commission in 1981 from the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Luxembourg as a member of the Cabinet of Commission President Gaston Thorn. From 1987 until 1991, Mr. Stoll worked as Luxembourg's deputy Permanent Representative to the European Communities in Brussels, and then from 1991 to 1993 as Luxembourg's Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to NATO. Since 1993, Mr. Stoll has worked as Director in the Directorate General for Internal Market, where his main responsibilities have most recently been electronic commerce, intellectual and industrial property and the media.

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Thierry Stoll

né le 10 mars 1953 à Luxembourg

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