Yves Kreins

Yves Kreins (born 18 June 1952),[1] a native of Sankt Vith, has since 2014 been the First President of the Belgian Council of State. This is the highest administrative court in the kingdom, with fourteen Chamber Presidents.

Kreins was appointed to the Council of State as a councillor in 1991.[2] In 2014 he was appointed First President,[3] in succession to Robert Andersen. He was sworn in on 20 January 2014 for a term ending 30 April 2017.[4]

Since 1997 he has been lector of the Faculty of Law at the University of Liège.[2] From 2000 to 2013 he was Secretary General of ACA Europe, the Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions of the European Union.[5]

In 2017 he was appointed as judge of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization for a three-year mandate.[6]

Honours

Publications
  • Jacques Brassinne and Yves Kreins, "La réforme de l'état et la communauté germanophone", Courrier Hebdomadaire CRISP (Centre du Recherche et d'lnformation Socio-Politiques), 1028-9 (1984).
Legal offices
Preceded by
Robert Andersen		 First President of the Council of State
2014–		 Succeeded by

References
  1. Moniteur belge / Belgisch staatsblad, 16 January 2014.
  2. Yves Kreins benoemd als Eerste Voorzitter van de Raad van State, Council of State press release, 20 January 2014. Accessed 6 June 2017.
  3. Royal order of 13 January 2014, published in Moniteur belge / Belgisch staatsblad, 16 January 2014.
  4. Moniteur belge / Belgisch staatsblad, 4 February 2014.
  5. Yves Kreins, Secretary General, ACA-europe, Audiovisual press service of the Council of the European Union, 16 July 2010. Accessed 6 June 2017.
  6. "Appointment of a new Judge". 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  7. Royal Order of 23 January 2017, published in the Moniteur belge / Belgisch staatsblad of 13 March 2017 (reference number 2017011122).
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