Cover; EU Agencies ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; List of Figures ; Table of Cases ; Table of Legislation ; List of Abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. Setting the Scene: EU Agencies, Agencification, and the EU Administration ; 1 EU Agencies and the Agency Phenomenon
1.1 Definition 1.2 EU agencies ; 1.3 Agencification ; 1.4 The EU administration ; 2 Situating the EU Agencies in the EU Administration ; 2.1 Executive federalism in the EU ; 2.2 EU agencies under a functional and procedural perspective ; 2.3 Conclusion
II. In Search of an Agency Model: The Provisions in Agencies' Establishing Acts 1 Introduction ; 2 The EU's Sources of Legitimacy ; 2.1 The EU's democratic deficit; 2.2 Legitimacy of the EU administration; 3 The EU Agencies' Statutes ; 3.1 The Boards ; 3.2 The Directors ; 3.3 Work programmes and annual reports
3.4 External relations 3.5 Seat Agreement ; 3.6 The Common Approach's contribution to an agency model ; 4 Practice Following the Common Approach ; 4.1 Review of agencies' acts following the Common Approach ; 5 Conclusion ; III. The Political Limits to Agencification
1 The Origins of Agencies 2 Explaining Agencification ; 2.1 The functional accounts of agencification ; 2.2 Non-.functional accounts of agencification ; 2.3 Concluding remarks ; 3 Agencification and Its Effects
Summary
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?
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-386) and index
