European Agencies

Author : Florin Coman-Kund
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351136846

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European Union Agencies as Global Actors by Florin Coman-Kund Pdf

This book examines a largely unexplored dimension of the European agencies, namely their role in EU external relations and on the international plane. International cooperation has become a salient feature of EU agencies triggering important legal questions regarding the scope and limits of their international dimension, the nature and effects of their international cooperation instruments, their status within the EU and on the global level, and leading potentially to tensions between EU law and international law. This book fills the existing knowledge gap by scrutinizing the international cooperation legal framework and practice of EU agencies, including their mandate, tasks and instruments, together with their legal status as actors with a global dimension. It sets out a general legal-analytical framework which combines legal parameters from EU and international law to assess EU agencies as global actors, and examines in detail three case studies on carefully selected agencies to shed light on the complexities of EU agencies’ daily international cooperation.

Author : Merijn Chamon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198784487

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EU Agencies by Merijn Chamon Pdf

Providing a comprehensive overview of the development of agencification in the EU, this book explores the question: What are the political and legal limits to EU agencification?

Author : Tom Zwart,L. F. M. Verhey
Publisher : Intersentia nv
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9789050952859

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Agencies in European and Comparative Perspective by Tom Zwart,L. F. M. Verhey Pdf

This book analyses the role played by agencies in several countries.

Author : European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,European Environment Agency,European Training Foundation,European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction,European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products,European Commission. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs),European Agency for Safety and Health at Work,European Commission. Community Plant Variety Office,Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union,European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia,European Agency for Reconstruction
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Pubs. of the E.C.
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UOM:39015056193694

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European Agencies Working Across Europe for You by European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions,European Environment Agency,European Training Foundation,European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction,European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products,European Commission. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs),European Agency for Safety and Health at Work,European Commission. Community Plant Variety Office,Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union,European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia,European Agency for Reconstruction Pdf

Author : Christian Kaunert,Sarah Leonard,John Occhipinti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317674627

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Justice and Home Affairs Agencies in the European Union by Christian Kaunert,Sarah Leonard,John Occhipinti Pdf

This book examines the role of agencies and agency-like bodies in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).When the Maastricht Treaty entered into force on 1 November 1993, the institutional landscape of the so-called ‘Third Pillar’ looked significantly different than it does now. Aside from Europol, which existed only on paper at that time, the European agencies examined in this book were mere ideas in the heads of federalist dreamers or were not even contemplated. Eventually, Europol slowly emerged from its embryonic European Drugs Unit and became operational in 1999. Around the same time, the European Union (EU) unveiled plans in its Tampere Programme for a more extensive legal and institutional infrastructure for internal security policies. Since then, as evidenced by the chapters presented in this book, numerous policy developments have taken place. Indeed, the agencies now operating in the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) are remarkable in the burgeoning scope of their activities, as well as their gradually increasing autonomy vis-à-vis the EU member states and the institutions that brought them to life. This book was published as a special issue of Perspectives on European Politics and Society.

Author : Martijn Groenleer
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9789059723467

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The Autonomy of European Union Agencies by Martijn Groenleer Pdf

Author : David Fernández-Rojo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839109348

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EU Migration Agencies by David Fernández-Rojo Pdf

This insightful book analyzes the evolution of the operational tasks and cooperation of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (FRONTEX), the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (EUROPOL). Exploring the recent expansion of the legal mandates of these decentralized EU agencies and the activities they undertake in practice, David Fernández-Rojo offers a critical assessment of the EU migration agencies.

Author : Berthold Rittberger,Arndt Wonka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135750312

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Agency Governance in the EU by Berthold Rittberger,Arndt Wonka Pdf

The rapid proliferation of EU agencies represents one of the most significant changes to the EU’s organisational set-up in past decades. At the same time, this development has significantly affected regulatory policy-making in the EU. This volume assembles the most renowned scholars in the field to address the key themes and challenges that agency governance in the EU poses to effective and legitimate policy-making. The first theme addresses the causes and dynamics of the creation and design of regulatory bodies in EU governance, focusing not only on EU agencies but also on alternatives to the agency format, such as regulatory networks. Second, once agencies are established, the book goes on to explore the consequences and trajectories of agency governance. How effective and autonomous are EU agencies? How does EU agency governance transform existing patterns of executive governance in the EU? Third, the book addresses the design of EU agencies as independent, non-majoritarian institutions poses pressing questions with a view to their legitimacy and accountability. The volume appeals to scholars and practitioners interested in the development and transformation of executive governance in the EU. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Author : Michelle Everson,Cosimo Monda,Ellen Vos
Publisher : Kluwer Law International
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : 9041128433

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European Agencies in Between Institutions and Member States by Michelle Everson,Cosimo Monda,Ellen Vos Pdf

Despite concerted efforts in recent years to define the position of agencies in the Union framework, a clear overall view of their role and powers in relation to the EU institutions and to the Member States is still lacking. Their hybrid character as part of the composite EU executive, and the fact that increasing powers are delegated to them, makes an understanding of the efficacy and accountability of agencies ever more important. Benefitting from both academic and practitioner insights from law, political and social sciences, this important book offers an in-depth analysis of the current challenges surrounding European agencies in terms of their design, autonomy, supervisory competence, and legal nature. Among the topics covered are the following: realities of the accountability mechanisms currently in place; impact of agency acts on the EU's institutional balance of powers; agencies as global actors acting on behalf of Member States and EU external relations; agencies derived from former networks of national regulators; non-hierarchical 'par' nature of agencies vis-à-vis corresponding national authorities; agencies as crucial amalgams between EU institutions and Member States; effect of the Meroni doctrine; new financial supervisory agencies resulting from recent economic and financial crises; special role of telecommunications agencies; and intricacies of the relationship between agencies and the European Parliament. Because EU agencies are designed to facilitate the implementation of EU law at the national level, powers are increasingly conferred on them in order to ensure that rules are enforced effectively and uniformly. The time has come, however, to confront the many questions of legality and constitutionality that remain. This book responds to the vital as to the role and powers of agencies in relation to their manifold 'principals', the EU institutions and the Member States, and lays a firm foundation for managing the challenges ahead.

Author : Johannes Pollak,Peter Slominski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030513832

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The Role of EU Agencies in the Eurozone and Migration Crisis by Johannes Pollak,Peter Slominski Pdf

This book provides a wealth of empirical material to understand key aspects of EU governance including its plurality of actors and policy making modes and its functioning during crisis management. Authored by legal scholars and political scientists, it presents new research and insights on the role of EU agencies in the context of the Euro and migration crises. Specifically, the contributions assess why the crises have led to the creation of new EU agencies and what roles these agencies have performed since their inception; how the crisis, notably the migration crisis, has impacted on existing EU agencies; how EU agencies have shaped the policies during and after the crises; and, how the crisis has affected the accountability of EU agencies. This book is essential in understanding the intricacies of EU crisis management and the specific role of EU agencies therein, as well as EU governance more broadly. Chapter 9 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Damien Geradin,University, The Netherlands, Rodolphe Muñoz,Nicolas Petit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781950237

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Regulation Through Agencies in the EU by Damien Geradin,University, The Netherlands, Rodolphe Muñoz,Nicolas Petit Pdf

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of regulatory agencies at both the national and the EU level. This coherent and clearly structured book is the first of its kind to analyse in equal measure, and interdependently, both national regulatory authorities and European agencies. It brings together a select group of highly esteemed contributors - authorities in their fields - to provide a systematic and over-arching view of regulation in the EU. Unlike many of the previous attempts to shed light on this increasingly opaque and complex co-existence of regulatory systems, this book takes a genuinely multi-disciplinary approach with integrated perspectives from law, politics and economics.

Author : European Commission
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : UCSD:31822030343578

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European Agencies Working Across Europe for You by European Commission Pdf

Author : Madalina Busuioc
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191650932

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European Agencies by Madalina Busuioc Pdf

European agencies have been created at a rapid pace in recent years in a multitude of highly pertinent and sensitive fields ranging from pharmaceuticals and aviation safety to chemicals or financial supervision. This agency phenomenon shows no signs of relenting, and the trend in recent years is towards the delegation of ever-broader powers. These bodies, meant to operate at arm's length from political control, have real power and their opinions and decisions can have a direct impact on individuals, regulators, and member states. Given the powers wielded by the agencies, who is responsible for holding these non-majoritarian actors to account? Is the growing concern surrounding agency accountability 'much ado about nothing' or are we faced with the threat of a powerful and unaccountable bureaucracy? These are precisely the questions that this book seeks to answer. It thus addresses one of the most relevant topics in current European governance: the accountability of European agencies. Scholars have increasingly called attention to the risk of placing too much power in the hands of such agencies, which operate at arm's length from traditional controls and cannot easily be held accountable for their actions. Although this is a major issue of concern, systematic empirical research into the topic is lacking. This book addresses empirically whether, and if so on what counts, agency accountability is problematic. It examines how the accountability system of European agencies operates at both the de jure as well as the de facto level, through an examination of legal provisions, relevant case law as well as policy documents and extensive interview material. Reflecting on these findings, the book also offers important theoretical insights for our understanding and study of accountability in a complex regulatory regime such as the EU context. The book follows a multi-disciplinary approach and is at the cutting edge of law and public administration.

Author : Eva Heims
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319975771

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Building EU Regulatory Capacity by Eva Heims Pdf

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these EU bodies. This raises the puzzle of why national regulators are willing to provide ‘life support’ to potentially rival organisations. The book is devoted to answering this question in order to understand how EU regulatory capacity is created in the absence of a full supranational regulatory bureaucracy. To do so, the book studies to what extent national regulators from two countries (the UK and Germany) support EU agencies in their work across four policy sectors (drug safety, food safety, maritime safety and banking supervision). The book makes a significant contribution by developing a bureaucratic politics perspective that highlights the importance of national regulators for EU regulatory capacity building.

Author : European Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : MINN:31951D02745054Q

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EU Agencies by European Union Pdf

From Stockholm to Crete and from Lisbon to Warsaw, 29 agencies provide service, information and know-how to the people of the European Union and beyond. The agencies work within many different fields such as environment, food safety, transportation, trade marks, education, or fundamental rights. This brochure dedicates a page to each of the agencies, describing their work and giving contact details.