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Jean-Claude PIRIS is

The Legal Counsel of the EU Council of Ministers, Director General of the Legal Service of the Council of the European Union (since 1988). Honorary French Conseiller d'Etat. Former Legal Counsel of the OECD. Former French diplomat.

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The Legal Counsel is the Legal Advisor (Jurisconsult) of the European Council (Heads of State or Prime Ministers of the 27 Member States) and of the EU Council in its different configurations (Foreign Affairs Ministers, Economy and Finance Ministers, Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, and others).

He is the Director General of the Legal Service, which counts about 270 civil servants of different nationalities, of which about 130 lawyers. The Legal Service provides oral and written advice to the Council as well as to about 250 Committees preparing its work. It provides legal advice to the President of the European Council and to the Presidency of the Council. Its tasks are in particular to help drafting EU legislative acts (directives and regulations). The Legal Service is the barrister of the Council before the EU Court of Justice.

On top of these duties, Mr PIRIS has also been :

• the Director General of the General Directorate of Justice and Home Affairs of the Council of the European Union (1st July - 31 December 2004);
• the Legal Advisor of the intergovernmental Conferences which negotiated and adopted the Treaties of Maastricht (1991-1992), Amsterdam (1996-1997), Nice (2000-2001) and Lisbon (2007);
• the Representative (barrister) of the EU Council in a number of cases before the EU Court of Justice, among which Opinions 1/91 and 1/92 (European Economic Agreement), 2/91 (International Labour Organization), 2/92 (Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development), 1/94 (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-World Trade Organization), 2/94 (European Human Rights Convention);
• for the last 10 years, Chairman of Panels in charge of interviewing and selecting Directors General and Directors for the Council, and Chairman of the Committee composed of management and staff representatives in charge of the promotion of all staff at professional level.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy of European Law - Trier (Germany), of the High Council and of the Research Council of the European University Institute of Florence (Italy) and of the Advisory Board of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom).

• April 1985 - April 1988 : OECD (Paris), Legal Counsel of the OECD, Director of the Legal Service, which tasks are to provide oral and written advice to the OECD Council. Substance : financial and economic law.

• 1983-1985 : Conseil d'Etat (as a Judge); Substance : public law. At the same time, part-time Legal Counsellor to the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation and alternate French Representative to the Council of ICAO (Montreal). Substance : international law.

• 1984-1985 : Member of the Arbitration Tribunal to which was submitted a dispute between the international organisation Eurocontrol and the Kingdom of Belgium

• 1979-1983 : Diplomat, Legal Counsellor of the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations Organization (New York). Deputy French Representative to the Security Council. French Representative to the Legal Committee of the General Assembly (34th, 35th, 36th and 37th sessions) to the Diplomatic Conference on Succession of States in respect of State Property, Archives and Debts (Vienna, 1983). Substance : international law.

• 1976-1978 : Deputy Secretary-General of the Conseil d'Etat. Substance : management of staff and budget. At the same time, Secretary General of the National High Council for Youth, Sports and Leisure.

• 1972-1976 : Conseil d'Etat (as a Judge); Substance : public law. At the same time, Rapporteur of the National Committee for the Control of the Electoral Campaign for the Election of the President of the Republic (1974); Rapporteur of the Committee Studying Adjustments to the Social Security System (1975).

Diplomas

• Graduate of the National School of Administration (ENA), Paris, 1970-1972
• Law degree and Post Graduate Degree in Public Law (European Studies), Paris, 1967-1972
• Graduate of the Institute of Political Studies, (International section), Bordeaux, 1964-1967

Books

• "The Constitution for Europe : A Legal Analysis" (Cambridge University Press, 2006, 280 pages)

• "Le traité constitutionnel pour l'Europe : une analyse juridique" (Bruylant, 2006, 385 pages; préface de Jean-Claude Juncker)

• "El tratado Constitucional para Europa : un análisis jurídico" (Marcial Pons, 2006, 359 pages; prólogo de Alberto Navarro)

• "Il Processo di riforma dell'UE - Il trattato costituzionale nella prospettiva del trattato di riforma" (I Quaderni del CIDE, 2006, 311 pages; prefazione di Giuliano Amato)

• "The Lisbon Treaty : A Legal and Political Analysis" (Cambridge University Press, to be published in June 2010, 450 pages; foreword by Angela Merkel)

Conferences

Numerous lectures and conferences (see Annex)both in Europe (at the Universities of London and Cambridge), at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (Strasbourg), at the Collège d'Europe (Bruges), at the European University Institute (Florence), to political authorities and senior officials, in Athens, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Linz, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Reykjavik, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw, etc.) and in the USA, at the Universities of Fordham (New York), Columbia (New York), Harvard (Massachusetts), New York University (New York).

Decorations

• Ridder af 1 grad Dannebrogorden (Danemark, 1995)
• Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (France, 1997)
• Commander Orden de Isabel la Catolica (España, 1997)
• Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen mit dem Stern (Austria, 2002)

Lectures and articles

Some of the conferences or lectures given these last years by J-C. PIRIS :

• "The Future of Federalism in the European Union" - Conference at the Florence European University Institute : Towards a Federal Europe (2 June 2003)

• "The Role and Functioning of the EU Council and of its General Secretariat" - American Bar Association - Section of International Law - 2005 Fall Meeting, 26th October 2005, Brussels

• "The Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe - General Presentation" - Grand Committee of the Parliament of Finland, Brussels, 23rd March 2006

• "Le Contrôle du respect de la subsidiarité" - Joint Committee for European Affairs of Spanish Parliament, Madrid, 30 March 2006

• "The Council's role in the institutional set up of the EU" - Institute for European Integration Research - Austrian Academy of Sciences Conference : "Re-assessing the EU Constitutional Treaty, Budget and Enlargement : Milestones or Stumbling Blocks" Vienna, 19-20 May 2006

• "Justice & Home Affaires and the EEA-Agreement - Integration ?" - Conference "The EEA, Schengen and Justice and Home Affairs cooperation", Bifrost University & Minister of Justice of Iceland - Reykjavik, 8th September 2006

• "Scenarios for solving the constitutional crisis" - Conference organised by Demos Europa & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Warsaw 30 October 2006

• "The Constitutional Treaty : What possible future ?" - Conference organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania - Deepening Europe's integration - Public debate dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Vilnius, 30th November 2006

• "L'avenir de l'Union européenne après les référendums négatifs en France et aux Pays-Bas de mai-juin 2005" - Conference to the Ambassadors of Spain in European Countries, Brussels, 22 January 2007

• "Does the present financial and economic crisis present dangers for the European Union ?" - (18 April 2009) Columbia Law School New York, New York (USA) - Conference, 15th Anniversary of the Columbia Journal of European Law

• "EU External Relations in the Post-Lisbon Era" - (2 October 2009) - 38th Asser Colloquium on Eu law & Launching event of CLEER. The EU in the world : external relations law for the 21st century - TMC Asser Instituut (The Hague, Netherlands)

• "The Treaty of Lisbon" - (10 November 2009) Conference at Fordham University, New York (USA)

• "Will the EU be more democratic after the Treaty of Lisbon ?" - (24 November 2009) Conference at Harvard University, Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), with Joseph H. H. Weiler and Jonathan Faull

• "L'Union européenne sera-t-elle plus démocratique grâce au Traité de Lisbonne ?" - (2 February 2010) College of Europe, Bruges (Belgium)

• "Changes brought by the Lisbon Treaty for the legislator and the administrations of the Member States" (15 February 2010) -Conference for Government officials in Warsaw (Poland)

Some of the articles published by J-C. PIRIS :

• "Risk regulation at Community level bearing in mind the requirements of effectiveness, democracy, transparency and consistency : The Council's role" - (1994, Colloque du "Mentor Group", Paris, 7-9. juillet; published by The Mentor Group, Mass., USA)

• "After Maastricht, are the Community Institutions more Efficient, more Democratic and more Transparent ?" - (1994, European Law Review, Vol. 19, No 5; also published in French, Revue Trimestrielle de droit européen, nº 1, Janv./Mars 1994, in Spanish, Gaceta Juridica de la CEE, D-22 10/94 and in Italian, Revista di diritto Europea, No. 1, Genn./Marzo 1995)

• "The 1996 Intergovernmental Conference" - (1995, European Law Review, Vol. 20, No 3; also published in French, Revue Trimestrielle de droit européen, nº 2, Avril/Juin 1995, in Spanish, Gaceta Juridica de la CEE, B-106, Sept. 1995 and in Italian, Il Diritto dell' Unione Europea, Fasc. 1, 1996)

• "The quality of Community legislation : the viewpoint of the Council Legal Service" - (1998, in "Improving the Quality of Legislation in Europe", Ed A.E. Kellermann, G. Ciavarini Azzi, S. H. Jacobs & R. Deighton-Smith chez Kluwer Law International, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, p. 25-38 (ISBN 90-411-0430-5))

• "La capacité de l'Union européenne de s'engager et d'agir en matière de relations économiques extérieures. L'exemple de l'OMC" - (1998, Florence, Académie de Droit européen)

• "The Treaty of Amsterdam : Overview and Institutional Aspects" - (1999, Fordham University, New York, published in the Fordham International Law Journal, Vol. 22)

• "La transparence dans les institutions communautaires" - (1999, Intervention au colloque organisé à l'occasion du 10e anniversaire du Tribunal de Première instance des C.E. 1989-1999; Publié dans le recueil reprenant les actes de ce colloque; also published in "Il diritto dell'Unione Europea", Vol. 4, No. 4, 1999)

• "Does the European Union have a Constitution ? Does it need one ?" - (1999, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA, published in 1999, European Law Review, Vol. 24, No 6, by the University School of Law, by the Harvard Jean Monnet Working Papers; also published in French, Revue Trimestrielle de droit européen, vol. 35, nº 4, 1999 and in German, Europarecht, 35 JG, No 3, 2000)

• "The Treaty of Nice : an imperfect Treaty but a decisive step towards enlargement" - (The Mackenzie Stuart Lecture 2001, University of Cambridge, UK, published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, Volume 3, and in the "Rome Forum Book", The Mentor Group, Massachusetts, USA)

• "L´idée d´une Constitution pour l'Union Européenne" - (2001,Sénat, Délégation pour l'Union européenne, République Française; Publié dans les "actualités de la délégation", web–site www.senat.fr.europe/r17042001.html)

• "La personnalité juridique de l'Union européenne" - (2003, "Liber Aicorum Bernard Bot - Rêves européens face aux réalités quotidiennes", Ed. Opmeer/De bink/TDS vof (OBT), p. 65-77)

• "The European Union : Towards A New Form of Federalism ?" - (November 2003, University College London and University of Texas, published as a Chapter of the book "Patterns of Regionalism and Federalism" (Hart Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2005); also published in French in Revue Trimestrielle de droit européen Nr. 2, July 2005)

• "The Legal Orders of the EC and of the Member States: Peculiarities and Influences in Drafting" - (November 2004, 4th Annual Sir William Dale Memorial Lecture, Center for Legislative Studies, University of London - published in Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, Issue 58, March/April 2005)

• "Union européenne : comment rédiger une législation de qualité dans 20 langues et pour 25 Etats membres " - (Revue du Droit Public, March-April 2005)

• "L'avenir de l'Union européenne après le référendum du 29 mai 2005 sur le Traité Constitutionnel" - Conseil d'Etat - Rapport public 2007, Etudes et documents nº 58 - La documentation française - p. 365 à 377

• "Les articles 290 et 291 du TFUE : Les compétences "déléguées" ou "conférées" à la Commission par le législateur européen. Les actes délégués et les actes d'exécution." - (2009, Proceedings of FIDE XXIII Congress Linz 2008 - Congress Publications Vol. 4 - NOMOS - Facultas.wuw)

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