KUNSILL TAL-UNJONI EWROPEA MT Brussell, 13 ta' Jannar 2012 (OR. en) 5185/12 PRESSE 2 Rappreżentant Permanenti Spanjol Ġdid għall-Unjoni Ewropea Il-Kunsill tal-Unjoni Ewropea ġie mgħarraf bil-ħatra mill-Gvern Spanjol tas-Sur Alfonso DASTIS QUECEDO bħala Rappreżentant Permanenti ta' Spanja għall-Unjoni Ewropea. Is-Sur DASTIS QUECEDO beda fil-kariga tiegħu fit-3 ta' Jannar 2012. (Curriculum vitae mehmuż). ANNESS Curriculum Vitae ALFONSO Mª DASTIS Born in Jerez de la Frontera (Spain) on October 5,1955. Married. Two children. Member of the Spanish Diplomatic Service since 1983. He has held the following positions: Legal Adviser, Foreign Affairs Ministry (1983-1985). Executive Adviser for Parliamentary Affairs of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (1985-86). Special Adviser for Legal and Institutional matters to the Secretary of State for European Communities (1986-87). Law Clerk of the Spanish Judge in the European Court of Justice (1987-89). Counsellor, Spanish Mission to the United Nations (1989-94). During that period, he was interalia vice-president of the Special Committee of the Charter of the UN, chairman of the working group of the Decade of the International Law and chairman of the working group on Indebtedness of Diplomatic Missions of the Host Country Committee. Alternate Representative of Spain in the Security Council (1993-94). Special Adviser for Legal and Institutional matters to the Secretary of State for European Communities (1994-96). European Adviser in the Prime Minister's Office (1996-2000). Undersecretary, responsible for the preparation, organization and coordination of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union (2000-02) Prime Minister's Office. Secretary General for European Affairs at the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry, from September 2002 to May 2004. Member of the European Convention and of its Praesidium as a Representative of the Spanish Government (2002-03). Ambassador of Spain to the Netherlands from July 2004 to October 2007. Permanent Representative of Spain to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from July 2004 to November 2007. Chairman of the Executive Council of the OPCW from May 2005 to May 2006. Chairman of the XI Conference of States Parties to the OPCW (December 2006-November 2007). From November 2007 to December 2010, Deputy DG for European Union Institutional Affairs at the Secretariat of State for the European Union. Since January 2011, Counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union. Has represented Spain in various meetings and conferences in the framework of the UN, the EU, the Council of Europe and OSCE. Has written extensively on questions of International Law and Relations and on European Union affairs.