Yves Bot

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Yves Bot (born August 22, 1947 in Château-Thierry ; † June 9, 2019 ) was a French lawyer and member of the European Court of Justice as Advocate General from 2006 until his death .

Career

Yves Bot studied law at the University of Rouen and received his PhD from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas . He began his career in 1970 as a court auditor. He was then from 1974 to 1982 in Le Mans first public prosecutor and then in Dieppe as a prosecutor involved. In 1984 he became deputy public prosecutor at the regional court in Strasbourg and 1986 public prosecutor in Bastia in Corsica . After serving in Corsica for two years, he became an Advocate General at the Caen- based Court of Appeal. This was followed by a job as a public prosecutor in Le Mans. From 1993 to 1995 he then worked as a special representative for the Minister of Justice. He then returned to his job as a public prosecutor and worked for seven years in Nanterre . In 2002 Bot became a prosecutor in Paris and in 2004 he became an advocate general at the Cour d'appel Paris , the Paris Court of Appeal. On October 7, 2006, he became an Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.

Yves Bot was considered politically conservative with a certain proximity to Nicolas Sarkozy . In the course of his career in the French judiciary, he has been involved in several cases with a political background. During his work as a public prosecutor in Le Mans, for example, he was involved with investigating magistrate Jean-Pierre Thierry in investigations against confidants of the then French President François Mitterrand . During his time in Nanterre he stopped the attempt to question Jacques Chirac in connection with an RPR scandal . As an advocate general in Paris, he was entrusted with reforming the French public prosecutor's office.

As advocate general, in the final motion to a preliminary ruling on the German Pharmacies Act, he took the view that the German regulations were compatible with the freedom of establishment in the Treaty on European Union .

Yves Bot passed away on June 9, 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Décès d'Yves Bot: il avait été procureur de la République à Dieppe. In: infoNormandie. June 9, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 (French).
  2. ^ Opinion in cases C-171/07 and C-172/07
personal data
SURNAME Bot, Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and member of the European Court of Justice as Advocate General (since 2006)
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Château-Thierry
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2019