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Dr Thomas Rummler, Of Counsel

+49 [0]221 390710 t.rummler@avocado.de View profile

Work Department

Practice areas: Waste Management Law, Circular Economy

Position

Of Counsel, Public Commercial Law

Career

From 1983 until 1987 he worked at the Federal Ministry for the Education and Science and since 1987 at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, temporary as Personal Assistant of the Secretary of State and as Head of the Ministers office.

Since 1990 he was firstly as Head of Division and since 2005 as Deputy Director-General jointly responsible for the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility in the fields of Packaging, Automotives, Batteries, Electric and Electronic Equipment as well as the development of the Circular Economy in Germany and on the level of the EU.

Languages

German, English, French

Education

Dr. Thomas Rummler studied Law at the University of Cologne. Thereafter and after the completion of his doctoral degree in 1982 he was employed as scientific assistant at the Institute for international and foreign Law at the University of Cologne.