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Harrie Temmink

Harrie Temmink

Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission, DG GROW (REACH unit)

Harrie Temmink is currently Deputy Head of the REACH Unit at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (GROW), European Commission. He has a Dutch Law Degree and a Spanish Language and Literature Degree from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands). He joined the European Commission in 2003 and worked as Deputy Head of the Online and Postal Services Unit, the Public Interest Services Unit and the Intellectual Property Unit. Previously he was a lecturer in Public Economic Law at the University of Utrecht; an advisor at the Netherlands Competition Authority; a Legal Secretary to the Court of Justice of the European Union and a Member of Cabinet of the European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs.