An alumnus of the College of Europe, Bruges (promotion Stefan Zweig), Geert van Calster is an independent legal practitioner at the Brussels Bar. His boutique practice focus is on EU and international regulatory law (especially environment), conflict of laws (private international law), and international and EU economic law. Geert is professor in the University of Leuven and Head of Leuven Law's department of European and international law. Geert has extensive experience in the field of waste law. Recent assignments in the area include strategic advice on W2E - Waste to Energy particularly in Northern Europe and the Baltic; advice on single authorised agents, and the WEEE and medical devices Directives; the impact of the Habitats Directive on mining activities; export of wastes cases (in particular: outside of the EU); import of hazardous waste from Africa into the EU; the application of REACH to the waste sector; import of waste from the US, as a resource for the renewable energy sector; and international prosecution of illegal waste shipments.