CompanyEuropean Commission
PositionHead of Unit for Social Affairs, Passenger Rights & Equal Opportunities in the Directorate- General for Mobility and Transport
Elisabeth Kotthaus is Head of Unit for Social Affairs, Passenger Rights & Equal Opportunities in the Directorate- General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) of the European Commission since September 2017. She joined the European Commission in 2005. She worked there in the areas of TEN-T and the internal market of electricity and gas (DG TREN), anti-fraud (as Member of Cabinet), transport in general (as assistant to the Director- General of DG MOVE), Justice & Home Affairs and Digital Agenda (as Deputy Head of the Political Section in the Representation of the Commission in Germany). Before 2005, she was a partner of a major law firm in Germany. Her specialisation was employment law (Certified Specialist Lawyer in Employment Law).
Her latest publications refer to EU transport law (co-author of the chapter on transport with D. Boeing and T. Maxian Rusche in Hilf-Grabitz-Nettesheim, Das Recht der Europäischen Union, C.H.Beck-Verlag, 2012 pp (loose leaf), and the Chapter on TEN-T in Ortiz Blanco/ van Houtte (Eds), EU Regulation and Competition Law in the Transport Sector, Oxford University Press, 2017).
https://ec.europa.eu/transport/home_en [2]
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights/index_en.htm [3]
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