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Reforming the European Union Agency Governance: More Control, Greater Accountability
Anamarija Musa
orcid.org/0000-0002-4061-0335
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagreb
Sažetak
Agencification in the European Union, as in most of its member states, has mainly proceeded without firm legal framework and horizontal measures, leading to the creation of numerous more or less independent specialised administrative organisations with diverse structure and functions. The EU institutional setting and the nature of EU regulation have represented powerful engines of agencification. However, despite their importance for the EU governance, the
existence of agencies had not been envisaged or recognised in the primary legislation before the Lisbon Treaty, while the more extensive data on them emerged only recently, due to the attempts to put agencies under stricter control. The paper aims to analyse the elements of the EU agency governance and to highlight the direction of the recent reforms of EU agencies. The paper outlines the rationale
and legal basis for agencies, then presents a short overview of the development of agencification, and finally gives insight into recent agency reforms. Although the EU agencies, exercising various tasks in different policy areas, have been perceived as being diverse, the recent developments inspired by the political and economic reasons show the evolving construction of common norms and practices
for agencies, which should enable more control and greater accountability of agencies. It is possible that these developments will influence the agency models in the EU member states.
Ključne riječi
European agencies; agencification; EU governance
Hrčak ID:
129775
URI
Datum izdavanja:
29.6.2014.
Posjeta: 1.625 *