The European Commission has decided today to transfer Rytis Martikonis to the function of Director-General Chair of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB), with the date of effect of 1 March 2022.
The Regulatory Scrutiny Board is an independent body within the Commission that advises the College of Commissioners. It provides central quality control and support for Commission impact assessments and evaluations at early stages of the legislative process. In his new capacity, Rytis Martikonis, a Lithuanian national, will build on his excellent management, representation and communication skills as well as his deep knowledge of EU affairs and legislation.
Through successive EU negotiations he has been part of its enlargement and has intimate knowledge of administrative capacity building, law harmonisation as well as impact assessment. He is also well placed to contribute to better regulation agenda.
Rytis Martikonis has been Director-General for the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) since 2012. He steered the world class service renowned for quality and efficiency into digital era. DGT today handles unprecedented volumes of translation, manages biggest multilingual data sets and provides automated translation to the EU institutions. Prior to that, Rytis Martikonis, had a long career in European affairs. From July 2005 until October 2010, he was Permanent Representative of Lithuania to the EU, after having been Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee. Before, as Undersecretary of state he was Member of the European Convention. From 1992 until 2001, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vilnius and Brussels, occupying the positions of Director of European Integration Department and Counsellor at the Mission of Lithuania to the EU.