Christine Stix-Hackl

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Christine Stix-Hackl, April 2015

Christine Stix-Hackl (13 November 1957 – 24 October 2018) was an Austrian jurist. She was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice[1] from 2000 to 2006. Stix-Hackl was the second woman in the history of the European Court of Justice to take the position as Premier Avocat général in 2005.

Stix-Hackl was the Austrian Ambassador in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg between 2007 and 2012. Stix-Hackl was Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations (Vienna), IAEA, UNIDO and CTBTO from June 2012 until her death in 2018.

Stix-Hackl died on 24 October 2018 in Vienna from a heart attack at the age of 60, shortly after returning from Luxembourg .[2]

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  1. "ECJ Advocate General Issues Opinion On Temporal Effects Of Dividend Ruling". Tax-News.com. October 9, 2006. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  2. "Obituary". Retrieved November 1, 2018.