{"id":2900,"date":"2025-02-12T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europeantunaconference.com\/?page_id=2900"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:49:04","slug":"peter-kovacs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/peter-kovacs\/","title":{"rendered":"P\u00e9ter Kov\u00e1cs"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2900\" class=\"elementor elementor-2900\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d97bbff e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d97bbff\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-664feb3 e-grid e-con-full wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"664feb3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4e4a5d elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"a4e4a5d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"468\" src=\"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kovacs.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-2896\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kovacs.jpg 468w, https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kovacs-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kovacs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/kovacs-458x458.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\">P\u00e9ter Kov\u00e1cs<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Head of Unit, Directorate E, (Industry, Goods, Energy, Customs and Origin), DG Trade, European Commission<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-702bf33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"702bf33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Peter is the Head of the Industry, Goods, Energy, Customs, and Origin unit in DG TRADE of the European Commission. His unit is responsible for the negotiation, implementation, and enforcement of the relevant provisions of trade agreements between the EU and its trading partners: Trade in Goods, Energy and Raw Materials, Rules of Origin, and Customs and Trade Facilitation.<\/p><p>His team is the DG TRADE contact point for industry stakeholders on trade policy issues. They provide trade policy support for EU initiatives in different areas, including industrial, climate, and health policies. He is the EU representative to the OECD Steel Committee.<\/p><p>He has extensive experience in trade matters, including economic security, tariff matters, customs and trade facilitation, intellectual property, and public procurement, as well as in security policy and international relations.<\/p><p>Before joining DG TRADE, he spent his career in DG TAXUD of the European Commission, at NATO International Staff, and at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P\u00e9ter Kov\u00e1cs Head of Unit, Directorate E, (Industry, Goods, Energy, Customs and Origin), DG Trade, European Commission Peter is the Head of the Industry, Goods, Energy, Customs, and Origin unit in DG TRADE of the European Commission. His unit is responsible for the negotiation, implementation, and enforcement of the relevant provisions of trade agreements between the EU and its trading partners: Trade in Goods, Energy and Raw Materials, Rules of Origin, and Customs and Trade Facilitation. His team is the DG TRADE contact point for industry stakeholders on trade policy issues. They provide trade policy support for EU initiatives in different areas, including industrial, climate, and health policies. He is the EU representative to the OECD Steel Committee. He has extensive experience in trade matters, including economic security, tariff matters, customs and trade facilitation, intellectual property, and public procurement, as well as in security policy and international relations. Before joining DG TRADE, he spent his career in DG TAXUD of the European Commission, at NATO International Staff, and at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2900","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2900\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeantunaconference.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}