Martin Hančl

Policy Advisor

Brussels Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Legal and Policy Advisor to Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs at European Parliament
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2019 · 5 yrs

    • Following the entire Legal Affairs Committee´s (JURI) agenda • Advising on files in LIBE, IMCO, AFET, AFCO, CULT • Advising on migration, digital single market, human rights resolutions and the situation in Eastern Europe • In daily contact with the Committee´s secretariat and other European Parliament´s bodies including political group´s advisors • Preparing JURI Committee meetings and trialogues organized by the JURI Committee • Drafting reports, opinions, amendments and briefings • Drafting speeches for the plenary debates and various other occasions • Participating at trialogues, shadow meetings and technical meetings organized by JURI • Meeting other Committees secretariats, advisors of political groups and APAs • Liaising with senior officials of other institutiions (Council, Commission, ECJ) and national officials • Meeting journalists, pressure groups or representatives of professional bodies • Drafting press releases

  • Civil Servant at Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic
    Jan 2012 - Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    Department for Asylum and Migration Policy Unit for Coordination of Schengen Cooperation and Border Control • Czech Republic´s (MoI) representative at Council´s Visa Working Party • Czech Republic´s (MoI) representative at Visa Committee and Travel Documents Committee (comitology) • Czech Republic´s (MoI) alternative representative at Council´s Working Party on Frontiers • Daily communication with the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU • Liaising with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic on Czech visa policy positions and mandates • Drafting briefings and mandates for Justice and Home Affairs Council´s meetings and meetings of the Salzburg forum of interior´s ministers in the area of visas, Schengen cooperation and border control • Drafting MoI´s positons on drafts of relevant national and European legislation (Visa Code, Schengen Borders Code) • Meeting Czech Parliament´s and Czech governments´ officials • Drafting answers to Czech and foreign citizens´ questions on visas, conditions for entry etc.

  • Trainee Lawyer at JUDr. Zbyněk Dvořák, Barrister
    Dec 2011 - Dec 2011 · 1 mo

  • Licensed Executor´s Trainee at JUDr. Jan Fendrych, Licensed Executor (Court Bailiff)
    Sep 2010 - Oct 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Trainee in the Press Service of the EPP Group in the European Parliament at EPP Group in the European Parliament
    Apr 2010 - Jul 2010 · 4 mos