Marek Prityi is State Adviser at the Slovak Ministry of Environment. Prior to that, he completed his doctoral research in the field of environmental comparative law at the University of Cologne, Germany. He completed a traineeship at the German Parliament, and worked as a lawyer and contract analyst in Slovakia. He is a gradu- ate of the Comenius University in Bratislava and Trnava University, Slovakia and collaborated as Research Associate with the organization gLAWcal-Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development. During his doctoral studies and in his capacity as Research Associate, he conducted research in the United States, India, and China.The views and interpretations are those of the author and do not neces- sarily represent the official position of the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic.