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An agency of the European Union is a decentralised body 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.

List

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	Members and observers
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work	EU-OSHA	Bilbao	Spain	1996	members: EU states, European Commission[1]
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training	Cedefop	Thessaloniki	Greece	1975	members: EU states observers: Iceland, Norway[2]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions	EUROFOUND	Dublin	Ireland	1975	members: EU states, European Commission observers:EFTA[3]
European Environment Agency	EEA	Copenhagen	Denmark	1994	members: EU states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey[4] co-operating: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
European Training Foundation	ETF	Turin	Italy	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[5]
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction	EMCDDA	Lisbon	Portugal	1993	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament, Norway observers: Turkey[6]
European Medicines Agency	EMA	London	United Kingdom	1995	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway[7]
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market	OHIM	Alicante	Spain	1999	members: EU states, European Commission[8]
Community Plant Variety Office	CPVO	Angers	France	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[9]
Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union	CdT	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[10]
European Food Safety Authority	EFSA	Parma	Italy	2002
European Maritime Safety Agency	EMSA	Lisbon	Portugal	2002	members: EU states, European Commission, Iceland, Norway[11]
European Aviation Safety Agency	EASA	Cologne	Germany	2003	members: EU states, European Commission, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland[12] observers: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, UNMIK[13]
European Network and Information Security Agency	ENISA	Heraklion	Greece	2005	members: EU states[14]
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control	ECDC	Stockholm	Sweden	2005	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway[15]
European GNSS Agency	GSA	Brussels	Belgium	2004	members: EU states, European Commission observers: Norway, European Space Agency[16]
European Railway Agency	ERA	Valenciennes and Lille	France	2004	members: EU states, European Commission, Norway[17]
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	members: EU states, European Commission[18]
European Chemicals Agency	ECHA	Helsinki	Finland	2007	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Norway[19]
European Institute for Gender Equality	EIGE	Vilnius	Lithuania	2007	members: EU states[20]
European Defence Agency	EDA	Brussels	Belgium	2004	members: EU states without Denmark; European Commission participant: Norway
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	members: EU states associates: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland[21]
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	members: EU states, European Commission, Council of Europe[22]
European Systemic Risk Board	ESRB	Frankfurt	Germany	2010	[23]
European Banking Authority	EBA	London	United Kingdom	2011	[24]
European Security and Market Authority	ESMA	Paris	France	2011	[25]
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority	EIOPA	Frankfurt	Germany	2011	[26]

Proposed agencies

Official name	Abbreviation	Location	Member state	Established	Members and observers
Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications	BEREC	Riga	Latvia	2010	members: EU states, European Commission[27]
Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators	ACER	Ljubljana	Slovenia	2011
European Space Agency[28]	ESA	Paris	France	2014[29]	members: EU states without Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia; Norway, Switzerland associates: Canada
European Asylum Support Office	EASO	Valletta Harbour	Malta	2011[30]
European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice[31]		Tallinn[32]	Estonia	2012

Former agencies

Official name	Abbreviation	Location	Member state	Established	Members and observers
European Agency for Reconstruction	EAR	Thessaloniki	Greece	2000	members: EU states, European Commission[33]

Countries hosting European Union agencies

  EU Member states hosting an agency

  EU Member states not hosting an agency

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

See also

• Directorate-General

• European integration – participation by non-EU states in EU initiatives
• Euratom Supply Agency (Luxembourg)^[34]

References

1. ^ "OSHA membership". Europa (web portal). 1 January 2000. http://osha.europa.eu/en/about/organisation/governingboard. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
2. ^ "Cedefop membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/about-cedefop/governance/governing-board.aspx. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
3. ^ "EUROFOUND membership". Europa (web portal). 3 June 2010. http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/about/organisation/board.htm. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
4. ^ "EEA membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.eea.europa.eu/about-us/countries-and-eionet/intro. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
5. ^ "ETF membership". Europa (web portal). 1 June 2009. http://www.etf.europa.eu/Web.nsf/pages/About_the_ETF_Governing_Board_Governing_Board_members_EN. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
6. ^ "EMCDDA membership". Europa (web portal). 10 February 2011. http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/about/mb. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
7. ^ "EMA membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/about_us/general/general_content_000098.jsp&murl=menus/about_us/about_us.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac0580028c2f. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
8. ^ "OHIM membership" (PDF). http://oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/resource/documents/OHIM/institutional/ABBC/ab_memb.pdf. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
9. ^ "CPVO membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.cpvo.europa.eu/main/en/home/about-the-cpvo/administrative-council. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
10. ^ CdT membership
11. ^ "EMSA membership". Extranet.emsa.europa.eu. 24 March 2011. https://extranet.emsa.europa.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=195. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
12. ^ "EASA members". Europa (web portal). http://easa.europa.eu/management-board/management-board-members.php. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
13. ^ "EASA observers". Europa (web portal). http://easa.europa.eu/management-board/management-board-observers.php. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
14. ^ "ENISA membership". Europa (web portal). http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32004R0460:EN:HTML. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
15. ^ "ECDC observers". Europa (web portal). http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/aboutus/organisation/mb/Pages/AboutUs_Organisation_ManagementBoard.aspx. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
16. ^ "GSA observers". Europa (web portal). http://www.gsa.europa.eu/go/gsa/governance/#gsa_administrative_board. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
17. ^ "ERA observers". Europa (web portal). http://www.era.europa.eu/The-Agency/Administrative-Board/Pages/Administrative-Board-Members.aspx. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
18. ^ "CFCA membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.cfca.europa.eu/pages/home/about_organisation_adminboard_members.htm. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
19. ^ "ECHA membership". Europa (web portal). http://echa.europa.eu/about/organisation/management_board/management_board_members_en.asp. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
20. ^ "EIGE membership". Eur-lex.europa.eu. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006R1922:EN:HTML. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
21. ^ "CEPOL membership". Europa (web portal). http://www.cepol.europa.eu/index.php?id=police-colleges. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
22. ^ "FRA membership". Europa (web portal). 15 April 2011. http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/about_fra/who_we_are/management_board/management_board_en.htm. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
23. ^ "ESRB legal framework". Europa (web portal). http://www.esrb.europa.eu/about/background/html/index.en.html. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
24. ^ "EBA legal framework". Europa (web portal). http://eba.europa.eu/Aboutus.aspx. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
25. ^ "ESMA legal framework". Europa (web portal). http://www.esma.europa.eu/index.php?page=foundingtexts&mac=0&id=. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
26. ^ "EIOPA legal framework". Europa (web portal). https://eiopa.europa.eu/about-eiopa/index.html. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
27. ^ "About BEREC". Erg.eu.int. 25 November 2009. http://www.erg.eu.int/about/index_en.htm. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
28. ^ Currently ESA is an international organization separate from the European Union.
29. ^ "ESA BR-268" (PDF). http://www.esa.int/esapub/br/br268/br268.pdf. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
30. ^ http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/agencies/agencies_intro_en.htm
31. ^ Regulation 1077/2011 establishing a European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice; http://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/policies/agencies/agencies_intro_en.htm
32. ^ Valentina Pop. "Estonia and France are candidates for IT agency seat". Euobserver.com. http://euobserver.com/18/30994. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
33. ^ "EAR membership". http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/archives/ear/agency/main/documents/21.07.08EARGoverningBoard.doc. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 
34. ^ "EUROPA – Euratom Supply Agency Homepage". Europa (web portal). http://ec.europa.eu/euratom/index_en.html. Retrieved 23 April 2011. 

External links

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)

Attribution of the seat of EU agencies:

• European Council conclusions, December 2003

Recommended reading:

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