María Angeles Benítez Salas is a Spanish lawyer and high-ranking official of the European Commission. She has served as Deputy Director-General of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development from 2016 to 2021 and as acting Director-General in 2020. As such she was the top European civil servant in charge of European agricultural and rural development policy.[1] In 2021 she became the head of the Representation of the European Commission in Spain.[2]
Career
She earned her law degree at the University of Granada between 1975 and 1980 and attended the College of Europe where she earned a master's in European law between 1981 and 1982 (Johan Willem Beyen Promotion). She earned a further degree in European law at the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1983. She joined the European Commission as a trainee in 1983. She was deputy head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers 2013–2014 and deputy head of the European Commission's think-tank, the European Political Strategy Centre, 2014–2016, before she was appointed the deputy director-general of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development in 2016.[3][4][5][6][7] At the start of 2020 she succeeded Jerzy Bogdan Plewa as acting Director-General,[1][8][9][10] and was succeeded in April 2020 by Wolfgang Burtscher.[11][12]
References
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- ^ "María Ángeles Benítez Salas, new Director of the European Commission Representation meets with the Spanish CDEs". Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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- ^ "María Angeles Benítez Salas" (PDF). European Commission.
- ^ "María Angeles Benítez Salas". Ebsummit.
- ^ "Commission européenne: nomination à la DG Agri". Agri.
- ^ "El presidente reclama en Bruselas unos precios justos". Jaen.
- ^ "Introduction of support measures for the fruit and vegetable sector in light of the COVID19 pandemic" (PDF). Ecomercioagrario.
- ^ "El reto de lograr una PAC efectiva para combatir la despoblación". Lanuevacronica.
- ^ "Reglamento de Ejecución (UE) 2020/277 de la Comisión de 26 de febrero de 2020 por el que se modifica el Reglamento (CE) nº 1484/95 en lo que respecta a la fijación de los precios representativos en los sectores de la carne de aves de corral y de los huevos, así como para la ovoalbúmina".
- ^ Leadership and organisation
- ^ Commission promotes deputy chief for research and innovation to head of agriculture
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