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Advocate General Yves Bot has died

(B2) French Advocate General Yves Bot left the world of law, treaties and case law. His death has been confirmed in Paris and Luxembourg. A great magistrate

Yves Bot during the reading of conclusions (credit: CJUE 2015 - B2 archives)

He had agreed to receive B2 to explain his role in the European enclosure. Read the Advocate General, at the forefront of case law.

An ardent European

Yves Bot" was a fervent supporter of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, deploying an unfailing will in the promotion of the Europe of Justice. France loses a very great magistrate said French Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet in a communicated published Sunday evening. " He marked generations of magistrates with his professionalism always tinged with humor, his ability to deal with the most complex situations with serenity and a reassuring composure that he knew how to maintain in all circumstances. "" An ardent defender of the values ​​of the Union, Mr Bot has worked throughout his career for a justice imbued with humanity and close to the citizen. “indicated for its part the Court of Justice in a communicated released Tuesday (June 11).

An expert in sensitive files

For more than twelve years, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU, the French magistrate has left his mark on several judgments in the most sensitive and political areas. We have witnessed this regularly. He thus gave his interpretation of European law on the Dublin mechanism, the blacklisting of terrorist organizations of Tamil Tigers, and more generally on terrorist blacklistsOn the “security” exemption in public contracts concluded for the internal security forces (carabinieri), on the agreements of transfer of pirates to the Indian Ocean, Or status of the Head of State when traveling in another country (Slovak-Hungarian affair) (*).

Yves Bot started his career as a substitute on the Le Mans floor in 1974 (a position he held until 1982 as the first substitute). He was then public prosecutor in Nanterre (1995) then in Paris with the TGI (2002) and public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal (2004). He became Advocate General at the Court of Justice on October 7, 2006.

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(*) Articles published on B2 Pro

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

One thought on “Advocate General Yves Bot has died"

  • the country stone

    farewell to a great magistrate whom I knew and appreciated well.ll

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