Michael Lux BVBA

Focus Areas

• Foreign trade and customs Law
• Antidumping, Anti-subsidy law and other trade defence measures
• Customs protection against goods infringing intellectual property rights
• VAT and Excise duties
• Trade Facilitation and free movement of goods in the EU

Languages

German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, understanding of Italian, and Swedish

Education

Studies of Law, Economics and Sociology at the University of Hamburg, of Government at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut), and of Government at the École Nationale d'Administration (Paris)

Teaching

Hamburg Customs Academy (Hamburger Zollakademie - HZA)
University of Muenster (Master of Customs Administration)

Associations

Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Forum for External Trade, Customs and Excise Duties (Europäisches Forum für Außenwirtschaft, Zölle und Verbrauchsteuern - EFA)
Member of the pool of experts at the Institute of Customs and International Trade Law, Muenster
Association of International Compliance Professionals - ICPA
Association des Anciens Elèves de l'Ecole Nationale d'Administration
Member of the editorial board of AW-Prax and the Global Trade and Customs Journal

Blogs and press reports

• Parliament.uk
• BBC
• Independent.ie
• Want to avoid border checks? Then full customs union membership is essential
• The government’s Brexit plan is still one big contradiction
• No-deal Brexit would present huge difficulties to businesses in North
• Brexit: No-deal border checks 'will be needed'
• Northern Ireland businesses warned over no-deal Brexit
• No easy trade facilitation solutions for Irish border, says new report
• https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1138478840890761217?s=21
• ROI ‘required to build border posts in no-deal Brexit’