Laila Medina, former Under-Secretary of State for Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), has been appointed Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for six years at a meeting of the Representatives of the Governments of the European Union (EU) in Brussels today.
The MoJ informed that Latvia was nominating candidates for the vacancy of the Advocate General of the CJEU for the first time.
Medina holds a Master’s degree in EU Law from the Riga Graduate School of Law and the Copenhagen Business School, and has demonstrated her knowledge and skills while working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as before at the State Chancellery.
Medina will take up the post of Advocate General at the CJEU on 7 October this year.
It is the duty of the Advocates-General to provide the CJEU with objective and independent conclusions on the case before them. In order to speed up the examination of individual cases, the Advocate General’s Opinion is given only in cases where new or particularly topical legal issues are being discussed.
Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Poland have permanent Advocates-General, while the other six EU Member States have to nominate their candidates for the remaining six Advocates-General on a rotating basis.
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