María Angeles Benítez Salas

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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  2. "María Ángeles Benítez Salas, new Director of the European Commission Representation meets with the Spanish CDEs". Retrieved 16 August 2021.
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  5. "María Angeles Benítez Salas". Ebsummit.
  6. "Commission européenne: nomination à la DG Agri". Agri.
  7. "El presidente reclama en Bruselas unos precios justos". Jaen.
  8. "Introduction of support measures for the fruit and vegetable sector in light of the COVID19 pandemic" (PDF). Ecomercioagrario.
  9. "El reto de lograr una PAC efectiva para combatir la despoblación". Lanuevacronica.
  10. "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".
  11. Leadership and organisation
  12. Commission promotes deputy chief for research and innovation to head of agriculture
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