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Team Leader:

Dr Jolanta Taczyńska

An associate professor at the Chair of European Law at the University of Lodz in Poland with fifteen years’ interest in the European Law matters endorsed by a good educational background. She graduated from the Law Faculy of the Lodz University. Afterwards she got a diploma of the postgraduate European studies in Poland and studied at a European school, College of Europe in Brugge, getting a diploma of Master of Arts in European Studies (Central and Eastern European Programme). Her doctoral thesis was one of the first Ph.D.s on the European Law conferred at the Lodz University. In 1997 she participated in the traineeship programme at the Directorate of Legal Affairs at the Council of Europe.

As an academic, she gives lectures on European Law, especially European Economic Law and European Labour Law for students and participants of the postgraduate studies. She also has an experience in substantial support, participation and organisation of seminars, conferences and training sessions for Polish judges, interpreters and officials of the public administration. She performs a function of a Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Polish non-profit Foundation UNI-IURIS Foundation for the Promotion of European Law, devoted to the promulgation and the translation of European Law. Until February 2005 she was leading a three-year project aimed at assisting Ukraine in its transition to the legal environment of the European Union and at providing greater understanding of the European law to the Ukrainian academics, civil servants and the legal professionals.

Deputy Team Leader Senior EU Adviser:

Gennadiy Kosyak

Graduated from Kyiv Institute of International Relations (International Public Law) and perfectioned skills in EU Law at Universite Pantheon-Assas Paris II (Institut des hautes etudes internationales) and in Human Right Law at Institut international des Droits de l’Homme (Strasbourg).

In the course of career, over last decade successfully performed as a Deputy Director of Legal Policy Department and Director of International Legal Co-operation Department a.i. in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine at the national level and at various challenging positions at international level including that of a Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the Council of Europe Office in Montenegro as well as a Head of Office for Targeted Co-operation and Assistance Co-ordination in the Council of Europe HQs, Directorate General of Legal Affairs, DG IV and the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

Combined professional skills and excellent background as well as thorough knowledge of functioning of national and international mechanisms and inside machinery provide DTL with an added value in understanding the context and finding possible solutions on the path of European Integration and legal approximation.

Senior Legal Approximation Adviser:

Darius Žeruolis

After graduating from Trent University ( Canada) and University of Vilnius ( Lithuania) in Sociology, he went on to study Political Science at the Central European University ( Budapest, Hungary) and London School of Economics ( UK) where he obtained two MA degrees. Since 1995 he has been a lecturer in Comparative Politics, Politics of Development and European Studies at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at the University of Vilnius. He was a visiting associate proffessor at the Central European University in 1998 and visiting researcher at the University of Oslo ( Norway) and Thames Valley University (UK).

His EU integration related career began in 1998 when he joined the European Committee under the Government of Lithuania (government secretariat for domestic preparation for EU membership and negotiations with the EU), first as a head of the Unit and later as the director of the Department for Integration Strategy. He was involved in Lithuania’s preparation for EU membership through contributions to setting up of the National Programme of Adoption of Acquis, programme of EU integration related impact assessment, progress monitoring and reporting as well as public information (and later referendum) campaign. He contributed to Lithuania’s negotiations with the European Union through co-ordination of preparation of national positions and through participation in solving many difficult cases (for example, trade in agricultural land, closure of the Ignalina nuclear power plant, and financial conditions of EU membership). In 2005 he was appointed deputy Government Secretary of Lithuania with responsibility for EU affairs. Through this position he was European Affairs advisor to Prime Minister Brazauskas and Prime Minister Kirkilas. He is the author of many articles and book chapters on party politics, elections and EU affairs. Prior to UEPLAC he was involved as an expert in EU integration activities in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Moldova and Turkey.

Legal Adviser in Internal Market Issues and Economic and Trade-related Reforms:

Jacques Tallineau

After graduating at the Law University of Bordeaux (France), he was appointed by the French Ministry of International Development to serve as a Legal Adviser within the Cabinet of the Marine Minister in Ivory-Coast during five years. The next step of his career was to head the Department of Litigation of the subsidiary of a French leading insurance company (AGF) for 6 years.

Full dedication to the work of European Communities started in 1989, at the time of the completion of the Internal Market between the 10 first Member States, when he created and managed a company in Brussels to deal with European affairs (legal advisory services, training, participation in EC programmes and application for financing by structural funds, international trade and international contracts) for public authorities (French, Irish and Belgian local Governments) and enterprises (manufacturing sector). In particular his one-year work on the gaps to bridge to ensure the approximation of the Belgian legislation to the pieces of EC legislation – circa 300 - included in the Commission White Paper of 1985 on “Completing the Internal Market”, was the fist one to be published in bookshops in Belgium on this topic.

Missions abroad as senior legal expert or team-leader include the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Poland, Albania, Djibouti and Ethiopia.

Legal Adviser in Energy, Environment, Transports and Telecommunications:

Dr Juris Ozolins

He graduated Riga technical University in 1972 as engineer of Power Systems, Power plants and Electric Networks. He had been working more then 25 years for Latvian Power Company in all segments of energy production, transmission and distribution. He was also active in policy formation and legal initiatives for economy of Latvia. During the crucial period after price liberalization and restructuring of economy he was in position of Energy Minister and later advising Government of Latvia. During his consultancy activities from 1998 his clients had been Government institutions of Azerbaijan, Moldova, Albania, Croatia, Kosovo and the Baltic States – mostly on regulatory and power market reforms. For time being Juris is a Special Advisor of European Commission in Cabinet of Energy Commissioner Mr. Piebalgs. Union of European Nations in European Parliament during last three years was using several times his services.

He is permanently living in Riga. His leisure time is allocated for Alpine skiing, sailing and landscape formation in his country house in Latvia.

Legal Adviser in Justice, Freedom and Security:

Edoardo Spacca

He has worked for over 8 years between Brussels, London, Warsaw and Neighbouring Countries where he gained a sound experience in European Integration issues related to Justice and Home Affairs by managing several EU funded projects. He was during four and half years the coordinator of the European Network for Drugs and Infections Prevention in Prison - ENDIPP, cooperating with governmental and non-governmental bodies in all the EU Member States and in CIS (particularly Russia and Central Asian countries). He also sat as member of experts working-groups on drug policy, prisons and alternatives to imprisonment (with the EMCDDA, EC, WHO-Europe, and the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe). Furthermore he worked in EU funded projects on anti-money laundering legislation in Estonia and mutual legal assistance in Hungary. Since 2005 he has been contracted as long-term expert in European technical assistance projects in Kosovo and Azerbaijan, and he is external adviser to the ENDIPP.

Edoardo graduated in Diplomatic and International Sciences at the University of Trieste in Gorizia (Italy), with a thesis on religious freedom in France, and he obtained two Masters degrees, in European Political and Administrative Studies (College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium) and in European Criminology (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium).

Data Base Management Expert:

Dr Jacek Marczewski

An assistant professor at the Institute of Electron Technology (IET) in Poland, he received the M.Sc. degree in electronics from Warsaw University of Technology (Poland) in 1977. In 1982, he received the Ph.D., and in 2005 he wrote a monograph that was presented as a habilitation thesis in the next year. A leader of several scientific projects with research interest concentrated on solid-state physics and technology. Author and co-author of eighty publications in international journals and conference proceedings, he is currently working on silicon detectors of ionizing radiation. From 2003 he is a member of the IET Scientific Council.

Besides his wide scientific activity in the field of electronics, he is an experienced adviser in the area of widely understood information technology (IT) and communication (networking, software&hardware solutions, management information systems, internet/intranet technology etc.). He is an author of several publications on these subjects. For more than ten years, he has been working for several IT projects including advanced database systems for the Committee for European Integration in Poland and for the Ministry of European Integration in Albania. During two years he supervised IT tenders in Poland in behalf of the EC Delegation in Poland. As a hobby, he is a keen sailor (licensed captain) and a holder of an amateur radio license since 1968.

Local Expert:

Valentin Dereviankin

Graduated from Kiev Foreign Languages Institute (1985) and Kiev State University (1998). Over a decade has been working in the sphere of international contacts and law. Had training courses abroad, in particular in 2000 at Commerzbank AG (Germany) took a course in financing of telecommunications and in 1995 took a course in regulation of energy sector in the US and UK. Has a solid experience in implementation of technical assistance projects in Ukraine – worked as a legal expert and a deputy team leader in several EU- funded projects in the sphere of privatization, competition policy, corporate governance and labour market.

As a practicing lawyer, provided services for international firms KLC ( Greece), Dewy Ballentine (Italy-US), Inframan ( Austria), IRZ ( Germany). Also worked for private firms in Ukraine (Arta Investments , Citycon, FGL Energy, PBS Law firm) specializing in energy projects, restructuring and mergers of enterprises, international investment projects.

Published articles in specialized Ukrainian magazines and co-authored in international publications - in particular in 2005 took part in drafting of Comprehensive Commentary to the Law of Ukraine “On protection of economic competition based on comparative analysis with the EU competition rules”.

Local Expert:

Oleh Myroshnichenko

Principal Legal Assistant:

Igor Gutsuyak

Legal Assistants:

Anastasiya Chepka

Kateryna Shmorgun

Administrative Assistant:

Anzhela Markova

Project Administrator

Yelena Yedamenko

IT Adimistrator

Sergey Andreyev

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