Lawyer at the Supreme Court, Head of Scientific Committee ECOCITY, Member of EEB Law WG
George Konstantinopoulos is a Lawyer at the Supreme Court of Athens with an MSc in environmental management. He has worked as a research associate at the European Public Law Centre and the National Technical University of Athens. He has also worked as a legal expert for the Ministry of Labor of Cyprus, responsible for the transposition of the whole EU legislation on air pollution and air quality. He was also a legal consultant of the European Public Law Center, working for the Attorney General of Cyprus on the transposition of the EU legislation on waste management.
He possesses more than 20 years of experience as a senior legal expert for the European Commission, having worked until today on a vast number of conformity studies regarding the assessment of the transposition in the MS of EU Directives in the fields of environmental, energy and H&S legislation. From 1996 till today he has participated in a large number of national, international, World Bank and EU funded environmental and energy projects in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Latvia, Georgia, Ukraine, Maldives and Azerbaijan. He has also been engaged as EU senior non-key legal expert for the Policy and Legal Advice Center (PLAC I and PLAC II) of the European Commission in Serbia on Chapter 27: Environment and Climate Change.
He is considered an expert on environmental liability issues, having worked for a number of insurance companies on the drafting of insurance policies on environmental damage, as also for the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies.
George is considered an expert on Circular Economy and EPR, having contributed as legal expert to the drafting of the Greek National Waste Management Plan (2020-2030) and the National Waste Prevention Plan for the Ministry of Environment and Energy. He has worked on the drafting of EPR policy and legislation in Georgia, Azerbaijan and the Maldives and is currently engaged as a legal counsel for a number of PROs in Greece.
He has also worked for various NGOs (ECOCITY, ARCHIPELAGOS, WWF GREECE) and is currently the Coordinator of the Scientific Committee and Head of Legal Affairs of the NGO ECOCITY, member of EUCOBAT Policy Working Group and member of the Working Groups for Law and Air Pollution of the European Environmental Bureau.
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