Julius Waller – Partner
Julius Waller holds a Masters degree in European Competition Law from the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) 1991.

Julius has worked in a variety of capacities on marketing and legal issues at the Dutch Magazine Publishers Associations ultimately as deputy secretary-general. In 1994 he joined EPPA where he continued to specialise in Media, Telecommunications and Technology issues. Milestone projects were, for example, the copyright directive where EPPA defended the publisher interests against the telecom and Internet companies at the height of the Internet bubble.

Another major achievement was the modification of the Euro-coins regulation after second reading and political agreement in the Council. Today’s €0.20 and €0.50 coins look different because of this intervention for the vending machine producers.

Julius has expertise in major strategic work aimed at the European Parliament or other complex institutional relationships such as comitology and Member States inter-cultural public policy management.

He is fluent in Dutch, English, French, and German and speaks reasonable Portuguese.

Meglena Mihova – Senior Account Manager

Meglena has a Master degree in international and European law from the University Paris II Pantheon-Assas and from the Institute of High International Studies, Paris. Meglena specialises in trade, enlargement and environmental issues.

She is actively involved in the activities of the Environment Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU. She is a Chair of the Waste Working Group and member of the Chemicals Working Group. She has been actively involved in the preparation of the Amcham EU position on REACH and the impact on downstream uses and trade. She is also  rapporter on WEEE, RoHS, Batteries.

She worked on the harmonisation of the Bulgarian legislation, as a consultant to the Ministry of Justice, Bulgaria (1999). She advised the Bulgarian Cabinet of Ministers on the preparation of the EU accession negotiations in the fields of legal integration and company law (2000). She did an internship in the Office for Official Publications in the EU Commission in 2000.

She was a lecturer at various conferences and seminars: “Seminar on EC law for Bulgarian judges, organised by EU Commission, Nantes, 2004; Conference “Bulgarian agrifood industry and trade with the EU", Sofia, 2003. The topic of her presentation was: “Improving market access for Bulgarian agrifood products: Trade barriers and opportunities”.

Working Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, French, English and Spanish.

Albert Vallejo – Account Manager

Albert is a political scientist (Autonomous University of Barcelona and Swedish Lunds Universitet, 2000). He holds a Master’s degree in EU Affairs (Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2001), where he got specialized in the EU external policies and wrote his final paper on the ACP-EU new political conditionality. He also holds a Master’s degree in Journalism, from the Universidad San Pablo/newspaper El Mundo (Madrid, 2002).

He has been working as a young expert at the European Commission, the United Nations Information Centre for Spain, the Catalan Government office for EU affairs and the international section of the second Spanish newspaper (El Mundo).

Albert works on issues related to agrochemical products and concretely on the upcoming legal framework for crop protection. He has also been very active in the co-decision procedure that lead to EU legislation on chemicals (REACH). Their implications in terms of Human and Animal Health, the Environment protection and the industrial competitiveness are key issues of his daily work at EPPA.

He is fluent in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, and understands and reads Italian and Portuguese.