Situation of the current agencies of the European Union
The agencies of the European Union are bodies of the European Union , usually with their own legal capacity , which are supposed to support the member states and their citizens. Their locations are spread across the EU and thus meet the desire for greater location diversification. In contrast to the organs of the European Union, they are not founded by the founding treaties ( primary law ), but by legal acts of the organs ( secondary law ).
The executive agencies occupy a special position : They are founded by the European Commission and entrusted with the administration of Union programs. They are not set up permanently, but for a limited period of time and have the same status as a Directorate General of the European Commission . In contrast to the other agencies, they must be based at the headquarters of the European Commission, i.e. in Brussels or Luxembourg .
Access to information for employees, employers and national administrations about their rights and obligations in cases of cross-border mobility, cooperation between member states in the cross-border enforcement of relevant EU regulations, mediation in cross-border disputes between authorities of the member states, solution support in the event of disruptions in the labor market
With the EU Council Regulation 1756/2006, the agency's work was discontinued on December 31, 2008.
Overall view, umbrella organization
The 45 (as of February 2017, EIT not counting) agencies were set up independently of one another, some if necessary due to special situations (e.g. banking crisis ) without an overall concept. There is an umbrella organization for these agencies, an agency network with an annually changing chair that will be taken over by EFSA in March 2017. The total of 9,500 employees in the agencies make up 1/6 of the total workforce in the European administration and, with 1.2 billion euros in 2015, received less than 0.8 percent of the EU budget.
The importance of the European agencies is steadily increasing. The European Parliament and the Council of Ministers have placed many of the EU internal market issues that are relevant for business and consumers in the EU in the hands of European agencies.
The legal status as well as the tasks and powers of the individual agencies result from the respective EU legal acts. The structure of their organs and the procedures for their decision-making are also regulated in the respective EU legal acts. There is currently no general administrative procedural law at EU level. The Court of attacks European Court therefore on the acquis communautaire ( acquis communautaire back) as well as the similarities in the rules for administrative procedures in the individual Member States.
Agencies with a total of 100 employees are currently working in Austria.
Belgium
Luxembourg
Spain
Hungary
Austria
Greece