Cvetelina GEORGIEVA

Cvetelina Georgieva is a Member of the Legal Service of the European Commission since January 2017. She dealt with competition files, State aids, antitrust and mergers for 14 years. Since October 2022 she focuses on sanction cases and legal aspects of Union policy related to international relations. The later includes legals aspects of negotiations of various international agreements, among which, enhanced partnership agreements, accession agreements and non-binding instruments. As a Member of the Legal Service, she regularly represents the European Commission before the Union Courts on various matters as well as before the EFTA Court. She pleads cases in English, French and Bulgarian. She represents the Commission before the Court of Justice on preliminary reference cases send by Bulgarian jurisdictions covering a very large spectrum of EU policies and matters. Before joining the Legal Service of the European Commission, she was a case-handler in DG Competition. She was involved in a significant number of complex merger cases in the pharmaceutical and the financial services sectors, as well as in abuse of dominance cases in the energy field. She has published several articles on EU Competition law and regularly attend conferences as a speaker in that field.