Press Release: Competition: Commission appoints Wouter Wils as Hearing Officer

The European Commission has appointed Prof. Dr. Wouter P.J. Wils as Hearing Officer for competition cases. As of 16 September 2010, he will join Michael Albers, who was appointed as Hearing Officer in 2008. Both Hearing Officers are invested by the Commission with independent decision-making powers, are not members of the Directorate General for Competition and report directly to the Commissioner for Competition, Joaquín Almunia.