Zsuzsa Kőnig is a Policy Officer in the Pesticides and Biocides Unit of the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission. She is working on topics related to the approval of active substances and on horizontal topics such as the assessment of the plant protection products including co-formulants; grants to the Member States to decrease delays in the approval and authorisation procedures. She joined the European Commission as seconded national expert in 2002 at DG Research, and she has a permanent position since 2004. She has a master as molecular biologist and journalist from the University of Szeged (Hungary) and post-graduation in economics from the University of Budapest (Hungary).