1. Community Agencies: Partners in Accession Lisbon, 26 November 2009
Community Agencies: Partners in Accession Lisbon, 26 November 2009
Zoltan Kazatsay - Deputy Director General DG TREN
EUROPEAN COMMISSION

2. Types of agencies  Regulatory agencies  Executive agencies
 Joint undertakings

3. Justification of agencies
 Allow Commission to focus on its core tasks
 Support decision making on technical or scientific issues
 Coordination at EU level
 EU visibility outside Brussels

4. Tasks of agencies  Adopt binding rules or individual decisions
 Provide direct assistance
 Carry out operational activities
 Focus on networking

5. Governance of agencies
 Administrative Board
 Executive Director
 Specific committees
 Audits/reporting

6. Budget and staff of agencies
2008
2009
2010
Budget
1,218
1,252
1,446
EU contribution
593
613
695
Staff
4,373
4,847
5,031

7. DG TREN agencies  European Aviation Safety Agency EASA
 European Maritime Safety Agency EMSA
 European Railway Agency ERA
 European GNSS Supervisory Authority GSA
 Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators ACER

8. DG TREN agencies 2008 2009 2010 Budget 164 186 209 EU contribution 102
109
119
Staff
783
845
962

9. Agencies and non EU Member States
 General provision in constituent act
 Assistance
 Working arrangements
 Agreements

10. Institutional aspects
 European agencies: the way forward
 Inter-institutional working group
 Horizontal evaluation
 Time frame: end 2010/early 2011

11. Thank you for your attention!