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By Jennifer Rankin, Judith Crosbie and Simon Taylor
03.12.2008 / 21:00 CET
UK loses competition post and France loses legal services; new energy directorate-general created.

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New directors-general

Economic & financial affairs: Marco Buti (with immediate effect)
Legal service: Claire Durand (with immediate, retiring 31 July 2009)
Legal service: Luis Romero Requeña (as of 1 June 2009)
Environment: Karl-Friedrich Falkenberg (1 January 2009)
Internal audit service: Brian Gray (1 June 2009)
Tax & customs: Walter Deffaa (1 June 2009)
Employment: Robert Verrue (1 June 2009)
Competition: Alexander Italianer (1 November 2009 at the latest)
Destination to be decided: Philip Lowe (1 November 2009 at the latest)
 

New deputy directors-general 

Education & culture: Jan Truszczynski (as of 1 July 2009)
Trade: João Aguia Machado (1 January 2009)

 

New heads of delegation

Subject to the agreement of host countries
Russia: Fernando Valenzuela Marzo (1 August 2009)
Morocco: Eneko Landaburu (1 August 2009)
Egypt: Marc Franco (1 August 2009)
 

Posts to be published internally: 

Director-general: External relations
Deputy director-general: Budget
Deputy director-general: Information society
Deputy director-general: External relations
Deputy director-general: Enlargement (reserved for: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Bulgaria, Romania)

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