Claudio Teixeira is a Legal Officer on the Digital Policy team at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, working on telecommunications, digital services, privacy and cybersecurity. As a law graduate, he holds both a Bachelor and Master of Laws from the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and an LL.M. in EU Law from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Prior to joining BEUC, Claudio served as a Junior Legal Attaché in the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union in Brussels during the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU in 2021 working on inter-institutional negotiations of legislative proposals such as the Digital Markets Act and the Public CBCR Directive.