Brussels, 27 September 2023
The European Commission has decided today to appoint Rainer Becker as Director for ‘Medical Products and Innovation’ at the Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE). This Commission department is responsible for EU policy on food safety and health and for monitoring the implementation of related laws. The date of effect will be determined later.
Throughout his almost 20 years of service in the Commission, Mr Becker has held positions of gradually increasing responsibilities. This career path has allowed him to consolidate his experience in a range of areas and industries, ranging from the handling of complex antitrust and merger cases, high profile legislative files to managing vaccine supply contracts in the pharmaceutical field. In addition to being equipped with robust management experience, Mr Becker will also draw on his demonstrated capacity of steering the development and implementation of EU health and competition policies and working with Member States and the other EU institutions.
Mr Becker, a German national, is currently holding the position of Head of Unit for ‘European Competition Network and Private Enforcement’ at DG Competition (DG COMP). Previously, he was Acting Head of Unit for the central Policy and Coordination Unit for Antitrust, and Head of the unit in charge of Pharmaceuticals and Health Services in DG COMP.
Before joining the Commission in 2004, Rainer worked for several years as a lawyer in a major international law firm in EU matters and taught law and EU law at university.
Source – EU Commission