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An agency of the European Union are decentralised bodies of the European Union (EU), which are distinct from the institutions. Agencies are established to accomplish specific tasks. Each agency has its own legal personality. Some answer the need to develop scientific or technical know-how in certain fields, others bring together different interest groups to facilitate dialogue at European and international level.

Contents 1 List of agencies of the European Union 2 Executive agencies 3 Proposed agencies 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] List of agencies of the European Union

Distinct from EU institutions, the agencies of the European Union were set up to accomplish very specific tasks such as promoting environmental protection, transport safety and multilingualism. They span Europe – Dublin to Stockholm, Warsaw to Lisbon – providing services, information and know-how to the general public. Most agencies were categorised under the three pillars of the European Union, but this structure was abolished with the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty.

Official name	Abbreviation	Location	Member state	Established
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work	EU-OSHA	Bilbao	Spain	1996
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training	Cedefop	Thessaloniki	Greece	1975
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions	EUROFOUND	Dublin	Ireland	1975
European Environment Agency	EEA	Copenhagen	Denmark	1994
European Training Foundation	ETF	Turin	Italy	1994
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction	EMCDDA	Lisbon	Portugal	1993
European Medicines Agency	EMEA	London	United Kingdom	1995
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market	OHIM	Alicante	Spain	1999
Community Plant Variety Office	CPVO	Angers	France	1994
Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union	CdT	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1994
European Agency for Reconstruction	EAR	Thessaloniki	Greece	2000
European Food Safety Authority	EFSA	Parma	Italy	2002
European Maritime Safety Agency	EMSA	Lisbon	Portugal	2002
European Aviation Safety Agency	EASA	Cologne	Germany	2003
European Network and Information Security Agency	ENISA	Heraklion	Greece	2005
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control	ECDC	Stockholm	Sweden	2005
European Global Navigation Satellite System Supervisory Authority	GSA	Brussels	Belgium	2004
European Railway Agency	ERA	Valenciennes and Lille	France	2004
European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union	Frontex	Warsaw	Poland	2005
Community Fisheries Control Agency	CFCA	Vigo	Spain	2005
European Chemicals Agency	ECHA	Helsinki	Finland	2007
European Institute for Gender Equality	–	Vilnius	Lithuania	2007
European Defence Agency	EDA	Brussels	Belgium	2004
European Institute for Security Studies	ISS	Paris	France	2001
European Union Satellite Centre	EUSC	Torrejón de Ardoz	Spain	2002
European Police College	CEPOL	Bramshill	United Kingdom	2001
European Police Office	Europol	The Hague	The Netherlands	1999
European body for the enhancement of judicial co-operation	Eurojust	The Hague	The Netherlands	2002
Fundamental Rights Agency	FRA	Vienna	Austria	2007

[edit] Executive agencies

Executive agencies are created by European Commission for a fixed period.

• Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI), located in Brussels
• Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), located in Brussels
• Executive Agency for Health and Consumers (EAHC), located in Luxembourg
• Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA), located in Brussels
• Research Executive Agency (REA), located in Brussels
• European Research Council Executive Agency (ERC), located in Brussels

[edit] Proposed agencies

• Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), located in Ljubljana
• European Telecom Market Authority (ETMA?)

[edit] See also

v • d • e Agencies of the European Union Safety and Health at Work · Vocational Training Centre · Living and Working Conditions · Environment · Training Foundation · Drug Addiction · Medicines · Internal Market · Plant Variety · Translation · Reconstruction · Food Safety · Maritime Safety · Aviation Safety · Information Security · Disease Prevention and Control · Navigation Satellite · Railway · Frontex · Fisheries · Chemicals · Gender Equality · Fundamental Rights · Defence · Security Studies · Satellite Centre · Police College · Europol · Eurojust · Energy Regulators Cooperation (in preparation)  · Telecom Market (proposed)

• Directorate-General
• European Space Agency, an international organization separate from the European Union; located in Paris

[edit] External links

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The following links are all part of the official EU-website.

• EU's main site about agencies
  • First pillar agencies
  • Second pillar agencies
  • Third pillar agencies
  • Executive agencies
• Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA)

Recommended reading:

• Governance of the EU: The Reform Debate on European Agencies Reignited

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