Chief Environmental Prosecutor Antonio Vercher retires after nearly 20 years in office.

Madrid, Aug 6 (EFE).- Antonio Vercher, the coordinating prosecutor for the Environment and Urban Planning Department, will retire next September after nearly 20 years in the position, according to the Official State Gazette (BOE) and confirmed by Vercher to EFEverde.

The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published Vercher's "forced retirement," which will take effect on September 21, 2027, when the Environmental Prosecutor will turn 72, the maximum age at which members of the force can remain active.

That bad place. By Antonio Vercher (Prosecutor of the Environment and Urban Planning Division)

Generally speaking, Spanish law stipulates that magistrates , judges, and prosecutors must retire at age 70, although it is possible to extend active service to a maximum of 72, an age Vercher will reach next September.

In the fiscal race since 1980

Specializing in environmental and urban planning crimes, Vercher joined the public prosecutor's office in 1980 and, ten years later, was appointed coordinator of environmental crimes at the High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.

Vercher, who holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, was appointed a prosecutor at the Supreme Court in 1996 and, three years later, a lawyer at the Court of Justice of the European Commission (EC).

Since April 2006, he has been the coordinating prosecutor for the Environment and Urban Planning Department of the Supreme Court, as well as the president of the Advisory Council of European Public Prosecutors (ACPE).

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He is the author of Comments on Environmental Crime (1986); The Role of Consumers in Environmental Protection in Relation to the 5th EU Action Programme (1996); Urban Planning Crime (2002); European Environmental Law (2005) and co-author of Environmental Sustainability. The Role of Local Government (2001) and Ethical and Practical Stumbling Blocks in the Criminal Protection of the Environment (2024).

Their work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Golden Panda presented by WWF on the occasion of the NGO's 50th anniversary.