29/09/2014: Participation at the conference of coordinators of Eco-school programme, Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenia

02/07/2014: Presenting the "Circular Economy Package" at joint press conference together with Commissioner Andor, Brussels

24/06/2014: Participation at the European Green Capital Award Ceremony, Copenhagen

Handing the award to the mayor of Ljubljana, Zoran Janković

With the team from Ljubljana – European Green Capital 2016
©Ursula Bach

20/06/2014:Participation in a round table discussion on effective water management at Bled Film Festival (Slovenia)

14/06/2014:Participation at the award ceremony "ZOTKINI TALENTI", the solemn announcement of the results from the national knowledge competitions and meeting of young researchers, organized by the Association for Technical Culture of Slovenia

10/06/2014: Participation at the conference of the EU platform on coexistence between people and large carnivores, Brussels

03-05/06/2014: Green Week 2014, Brussels

22/05/2014: High-Level Conference on Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services in Europe

21/05/2014: Natura 2000 awards ceremony, Brussels

08/05/2014: Let's clean up Europe: the Commission participates!

22/04/2014: Visit to Slovenian Economic Association in Klagenfurt, Austria

With Felix Wieser, President of the Board of the Association of Banks

With Benjamin Wakounig, President of Slovenian Economic Association

11/04/2014: Visit to European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in Helsinki (Finland)

Visit to ECHA

With Mr.Geert Dancet, executive director of ECHA

With Ms.Nina Cromnier Chairperson of the ECHA Management Board and Mr.Geert Dancet, executive director of ECHA

07/04/2014: Visit to Hannover (Germany)

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04/04/2014: Visit of 1st International fair on sustainable technologies and green lifestyle and participation in the discussion “More Europe – more Slovenia: Green Economy in the EU and Slovenia – Can we afford it or not?” - Gornja Radgona (Slovenia)

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04/04/2014: Participation at the conference "Political participation and youth"- Ljubljana (Slovenia)

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01/04/2014: Participation in the "Feeding the 5000" event (event against food waste) (Brussels)

31/03/2014: Participation at the plenary meeting of the European Resource Efficiency Platform

John Bruton, Janez Potočnik and Alan Seatter, Deputy Director General ...

John Bruton, Janez Potočnik and Alan Seatter, Deputy Director General ...

General view of the plenary meeting of the European Resource ...

Group photo of the Members of the European Resource Efficiency ...

24/03/2014: Participation in the European Mobility Week Award Ceremony

21/03/2014: Commissioner Potočnik at the ACER (Catalan Association of Research Centres) Award Ceremony, La Pedrera, Spain

Receiving ACER award from the Minister of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia Hble. Andreu Mas-Colell

From left to right: Dr. Torner, Dr. Kafatos, Dr. Mayor Zaragoza, Dr. Potočnik and Hble. Mas-Colell

Speech at the ACER Award Ceremony
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21/03/2014: Meeting with the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia (CADS), Barcelona, Spain

20/03/2014: "New environmentalism" seminar, organised by Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm University and the European Commission, Stockholm, Sweden

20/03/2014: Participation at the Economist Group's second annual World Forests Summit, Stockholm, Sweden

06/03/2014: Participation in a panel discussion with young Europeans on New Environmentalism "How many planets do we need?", Berlin

06/03/2014: Participation at the Panel discussion on the 7th EAP (Environment Action Programme) together with the Federal Environment Minister Dr Barbara Hendricks during the visit to Berlin

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03/03/2014: At the opening of Healthy Oceans - Productive Ecosystems (HOPE): a European conference for the marine environment, Brussels

16/01/2014: Commissioner Janez Potočnik receives Stella Wittmann to hand over a petition against the use of plastic bags

15/01/2014: Visit of Aleqa Hammond, Prime Minister of Greenland, to the EC

10/01/2014: Presentation of New Year's greetings of the Barroso II Commission to Philippe, King of the Belgians

18/12/2013: At the European Green Capital Award Handover Ceremony 2013 in Brussels

15/11/2013: Opening of the exhibition "Nice to Sea?" by the Surfrider Foundation Europe in partnership with Y&R Paris, Brussels

Commissioner Janez Potočnik (left) and Maria Damanaki, European Commissioner responsible for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (right)

From left to right: Commissioner Janez Potočnik, Commissioner Maria Damanaki, Raphaël Filippi, Paul Meilhat and Grégory Penne (all three Surfrider's Ambassadors) and Jacques Beall, SFE Vice president.

Stephane Latxague, Surfrider Foundation Europe's CEO (right) with Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Commissioner Maria Damanaki.

Commissioner Potočnik receives the petition in favour of a European ban of single-use plastic bags with 22.583 collected signatures from Surfrider's Ambassadors - Raphaël Filippi, Paul Meilhat and Grégory Penne.

04/11/2013: At the press conference announcing Commission proposal to reduce the use of plastic bags, Brussels

15/10/2013: At the presentation of the European Environment Agency (EEA) annual report on Air Quality in Europe, Brussels

08-10/10/2013: Visit to Japan – Participation at the Diplomatic Conference for the Minamata Convention on Mercury, Minamata and Kumamoto

30/09/2013: At the signature of a Volunary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the EU and Indonesia on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade in Timber Products (FLEGT) to the European Union, Brussels

(from left to right: Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesian Minister for Forestry, Valentinas Mazuronis, Lithuanian Minister for Environment, Commissioner Potočnik)

26/09/2013: At the ceremony celebrating 10 years of Health and Environment Alliance 2003 – 2013, Brussels

Peter van den Hazel, President of HEAL (on the left) and Genon K. Jensen, HEAL Executive Director (on the right)

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19/09/2013: At the meeting of the High Level Group of Independent Stakeholders on Administrative Burdens, Brussels

15/09/2013: Visiting the sewer system during the official visit to Vienna

With Ulli Sima, Executive City Councillor for Environment of the City of Vienna

09/09/2013: Participation in the kick-off event on combating illegal export of waste and materials in Europe, Antwerp

19/07/2013: Official visit to China

Meeting with Minister Zhou SHENGXIAN, Minister for Environmental Protection, and the 5th China-EU Ministerial dialogue on Environmental Policy

Meeting with Chen LEI, Minister for Water Resources

Joint press conference together with VP Tajani

18/07/2013: Official visit to China

"Doing Business in China" seminar

Meeting with Zhang Jianlong, Deputy State Forestry Administrator, and signing of a cooperation arrangement between European Commission DG Environment and State Forestry Administration of China on CITES related matters

Roundtable on Green business opportunities in China

05/07/2013: Participation of the College at the opening of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, Vilnius

With Dalia Grybauskaité, President of Lithuania and José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission

With Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council
© European Union, 2013

28/06/2013: At the Pregl Award ceremony and the opening of the Pregl Research Centre, National institute for Chemistry, Ljubljana

With Prof. Dr. Gregor Anderluh, the winner of Pregl Award (left) and Prof. Dr Janko Jamnik, Director of the Institute for Chemistry (right)

Opening the centre together with Prof. Dr. Janko Jamnik, Director of the Institute for Chemistry

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14/06/2013: Participation in the European Green Capital Award Ceremony

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07/06/2013: Green Week 2013: Visiting the GW 2013 exhibition (Brussels)

07/06/2013: Green Week 2013: Participating at the closing session of GW 2013 (Brussels)

06/06/2013: Green Week 2013: Launching of the European Citizen Science Association (Brussels)

05/06/2013: Participation in the "European Tree of the Year" Award ceremony in the European Parliament (Brussels)

04/06/2013: Launch of the Green Week 2013

10/05/2013: Visit to Slovenia – Participation in the environmental forum of Green Slovenia "Sustainable development is the path towards Green Slovenia (2014 – 2020)", Ljubljana

Photo: Boštjan Čadej
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09-10/05/2013: Visit to Slovenia – Working lunch with the Minister of Agriculture and Environment, Dejan Židan followed by a press conference, Ljubljana

09-10/05/2013: Visit to Slovenia – Meeting with the Prime Minister, Alenka Bratušek, Ljubljana

09/05/2013: Visit to Slovenia – Participation in citizen's dialogue "EU is you" ("EU si ti"), Ljubljana

17/04/2013: Visit of Janez Potočnik to Geneva

© Permanent Delegation of the European Union to the UN Office and other international organisations in Geneva

09/04/2013: Commissioner Potočnik received Nicolas Hulot, Founder and Chairman of the Nicolas Hulot Foundation for Nature and Man

15/03/2013: Meeting with Ivica Dačić, Serbian Prime Minister and Minister for the Interior during his visit to the Commission, Brussels

07/03/2013: Joint press conference with Jeremy Irons on the Green Paper on plastic waste, Brussels

06/03/2013: At the European Mobility Week Award Ceremony, Brussels

01/03/2013: Meeting with Oleg Proskuryakov, Ukrainian Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources, Brussels

27/02/2013: Joint press conference with Commissioner Andris Piebalgs on the communication "A Decent Life for All: Ending Poverty and Giving the World a Sustainable Future", Brussels

25/02/2013: Meeting with Dr Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, Brussels

20/02/2013: "Green Growth and the role of business": luncheon debate organised by the Spanish Official Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg

08/01/2013: Participation of Janez Potočnik at the "Clean Air Everywhere" conference organised by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB)

18/12/2012: The 2nd meeting of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Steering Group on water, Brussels

10/11/2012: Visit to Spain

26/10/2012: Meeting with Michael Wadleigh, co-Founder of the Homo Sapiens Foundation, Brussels

22/10/2012: Visit to Genk

16-19/10/2012: Visit to India – Participation at the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, Hyderabad

09/10/2012: Inter-institutional working session on the Rio+20 follow-up at EU-level hosted by the EESC President Staffan Nilsson, Brussels

20/07/2012: Celebration of the 20th anniversary of Habitats Directive, Natura 2000 and LIFE Regulation, Kozjanski Park, Slovenia

19/07/2012: Meeting with Eduard A. Stavitsky, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Brussels

29/06/2012: "Award Ceremony, European Green Capital 2014", Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)

28/06/2012: European Steel Day 2012

20/06/2012: Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development

05/06/2012: Launch of the European Resource Efficiency Platform

25/05/2012: Greenweek 2012 - Closing session

25/05/2012: Greenweek 2012 - Visiting the exhibition

22/05/2012: Greenweek 2012 - Opening session

21/05/2012: Visit to Denmark and attendance at the LIFE20 Celebration Event in Lille Vildmose (Denmark)

10-11/05/2012: Participating at the Conference "Soil remediation and Soil sealing", Brussels

08/05/2012, Brussels: Participation in meetings with Ministers from AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States), LDCs (Least Developed Countries) and Latin American countries for a discussion on Rio+20

03/05/2012: Receiving a delegation from the Prince of Wales' EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (together with José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC and Connie Hedegaard, Member of the EC in charge of Climate Action), Brussels

02/05/2012: Celebration of the 2000th EC College meeting, since the entry into force in 1967 of the Merger Treaty which combined the EEC, ECSC and Euratom executive bodies, Brussels

27/04/2012: Meeting with José Trinidad Suazo Bulnes, Minister-Director of the National Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife Institute (ICF) of Honduras

12-13/04/2012: Official visit to Slovenia

22/03/2012: European Parliament Intergroup on water

20/03/2012: Meeting with Franc Bogovič, Slovenian Minister for Agriculture and the Environment

14-16/03/2012: Visit to Brazil

12-17/03/2012: 6th World Water Forum, Marseille, France

05/03/2012: Participation at the European Mobility Week Award Ceremony

16/02/2012: Meeting with Henk Bleker, Dutch Minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade

08/02/2012: Speech at the seminar on Sustainable Consumption and Production as a Vehicle for Green Growth, Brussels

08/02/2012: 4th EU-China Dialogue on Environmental Policy

07/02/2012: High level event "Go sustainable, be responsible! European society on the road to Rio+20", organised by European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels

25/1/2012: Meeting with Corrado Clini, Italian Minister of Environment and Protection of Land and Sea

19-20/01/2012: Visit to Slovakia

14/01/2012: Participation at the opening ceremony of the European Capital of Culture 2012, Maribor

11-12/01/2012: First meeting between the EC College and the Danish Presidency

15/12/2011: Speech at the CoR plenary session on Rio+20

15/12/2011: European Green Capital Handover Ceremony from Hamburg (EGC 2011) to Vitoria-Gasteiz (EGC 2012)

12/12/2011: Participation in the Aldersgate Group parliamentary debate "Green policy in the midst of the debt crisis. What is the way forward for Europe?", UK Parliament

07/12/2011: Meeting with Jean-Yves Le Drian, President of the Regional Council of Brittany and Michel Cadot, Prefect of the Brittany region, Brussels

02/12/2011: CARS 21 High level meeting

29/11/2011: Covenant of Mayors Ceremony

24/11/2011: Participation in the European Water Stewardship (EWS) launch event, Brussels

20-21/10/2011: Visit to Czech Republic

17/10/2011: Generation Awake Launch, Warsaw, Poland

12/10/2011: With fellow Commissioners at the Annual meeting between College and the EP Conference of Committee Chairs

11/10/2011: Meeting with the with a delegation of the ENCORE network (Environmental Conference of the Regions in Europe), Brussels

03/10/2011: Visit to India, New Delhi

22/09/2011: At the EESC plenary session discussion on EU preparations for RIO+20

20/09/2011: Press conference on on the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, Brussels

Visit to Malta, 15-16 September 2011

At the official opening of the "Train of Ideas - Visions for Future Cities" in Brussels, 7 September 2011

Meeting with Professor Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of European Environmental Agency (EEA), Copenhagen (23/06/2011)

Green Week conference, Brussels (24-27/05/2011)

Inauguration of the Train of Ideas, Hamburg (15/04/2011)

Visit to Greece (07-08/04/2011)

Tree planting event to mark 20 years of independance of Slovenia (20/03/2011)

Meeting with group of Slovenian students from University of Maribor, Brussels (16/03/2011)

Commissioner Potočnik receives the Future Book from the representatives of global project Challenge:Future, which connects young people from around the world to help create solutions for challenges of sustainability, Ljubljana (04/03/2011)

Commissioner Potočnik at the opening of the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), Ljubljana (03/03/2011)

Commissioner Potočnik at the site of one of the worlds largest and most advanced waste recovery and recycling plants in Hoboken, Belgium (19-01-2011)

Commissioners Potočnik and Damanaki at the Conference on the Common Fisheries Policy Reform, Brussels (16-11-2010)

European Green Capital Conference 2010 and the award ceremony, Stockholm (21-10-2010)

Commissioner Potočnik with Mayor of Stockholm Sten Nordin (right) and the representatives of the City of Stockholm



Winning city Vitoria-Gasteiz, European Green Capital 2012



Winning city Nantes, European Green Capital 2013



Representatives from the finalist cities for European Green Capital award 2012 and 2013



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Commissioner Potočnik receives Dejan Židan, Slovenian Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Food  (17-09-2010)

Handover of the declaration on biodiversity conservation of the European Youth Perspective Conference (YouPEC) (15-07-2010)

At the meeting with the representatives from petrol and gas companies, Brussel  (14-07-2010)

From left to right, Commissioners Janez Potocnik, Maria Damanaki and Günther Oettinger

Commissioner Potocnik with Commissioner Maria Damanaki

Press Conference with Commissioner Oettinger after the Second safety talks with industry on Oil platforms with Commissioners Damanaki, Georgieva and Oettinger (14-07-2010)

Commissioner Janez Potočnik shaking hands with Jim Higgins (22-06-2010)

Commissioner Janez Potocnik shaking hands with Jim Higgins, Member of the EP, Brussels

Group photo: Commissioner Janez Potočnik and Jim Higgins, Member of the EP with the Representatives of County Leitrim, Republic of Ireland

Commissioner Potočnik receives a petition against whaling from the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (UK), Brussels (22-06-2010)

Commissioner Potocnik gives a speech at the Smith School World Forum 2010 on Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford (06-06-2010)

Commissioner Potocnik with Steven Chu, Mikhail Gorbachev and David King

Panel Discussion (from the left) Prof. Michael Grub, Prof. Dan Bodansky, Dr Lavanya Rajamani, Commissioner Potocnik and Mikhail Gorbachev

Scribbing of the Commissioners speech

Commissioner Janez Potočnik opens the Green Week 2010, Brussels (01-06-2010)

Opening of Green Week
Janez Potocnik, Member of the EC in charge of the Environment opens Green Week, the Commission's annual four-day conference on environmental policy held in the Charlemagne building in Brussels. This year's theme is biodiversity.

At the Green week exhibition, Brussels  (01-06-2010)

Opening of Green Week
Janez Potocnik, Member of the EC in charge of the Environment opens Green Week, the Commission's annual four-day conference on environmental policy held in the Charlemagne building in Brussels. This year's theme is biodiversity.

Tour of the Green Week exhibition by Janez Potocnik

European Maritime Day, Gijon, Spain  (19-05-2010)

3rd European Maritime Day
Participation of Janez Potocnik, (19/05) Member of the EC in charge of the Environment and Maria Damanaki, (20/05) Member of the EC in charge of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries at the European Maritime Day Stakeholder Conference

Water: our hope (05-05-2010)

Opening of the Exhibition "Voda: naše upanje." ("Water: our hope."/ "L'Eau, notre espérance"), prepared by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia to Belgium and Wallonie-Bruxelles International at Espace International Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels

Commissioner Potočnik with H.E. Anita Pipan, Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia to Belgium and Mr Philippe Suinen, Director General of Wallonie-Bruxelles International

Participation in Let's Clean Slovenia in One Day (17-04-2010)

Visit to Natura 2000 sites in Slovenia - Natural Reserve Iški morost (16-04-2010)

Visit to Natura 2000 sites in Slovenia (16-04-2010)

Natural Reserve Škocjanski zatok

The electric bike ride (24-03-2010)

Electric bike race
Electric bike ride in the framework of the EU Sustainable Energy Week with the participation of Janez Potocnik, Member of the EC in charge of the Environment, Günther Oettinger, Member of the EC in charge of Energy and Johannes Hahn, Member of the EC in charge of Regional Policy

Commissioner Potočnik together with Commissioners Günther Oettinger and Johannes Hahn participating at the electric bike ride in the framework of the EU Sustainable Energy Week, Brussels

Lisbon Council (23-03-2010)

Commissioner Potočnik at the 2010 Jean Jacques Rousseau Lecture, The Lisbon Council, Brussels

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International Fund for Animal Welfare (23-03-2010)

Commissioner Potočnik with Eve Abe, elephant expert of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) at the handover of elephant campaign postcards, Brussels

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European Mobility Week in Brussels (23-03-2010)

European Mobility Week
Participation of Janez Potocnik, Member of the EC in charge of the Environment at European Mobility Week

(From left to right: Commissioner Potočnik, Roger Persson, Municipal Commissioner, Municipality of Gävle, Sweden, José Antonion Diez, Town Councillor for Mobility&Security, Leon, Spain, Boris Kovacic, Mayor, Ivanic-Grad, Croatia)

Janez Potočnik and Maria Damanaki  (22-02-2010)

Janez Potočnik and Jacqueline McGlade (08-02-2010)

Jacqueline McGlade at the EC
Janez Potocnik, Member of the EC in charge of Science and Research, receives Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency (EEA)

Jacqueline McGlade, on the right, and Janez Potocnik

Hearing of Janez Potočnik (13-01-2010)