Agencies of the European Union in the context of "Institutional seats of the European Union"

⭐ In the context of Institutional seats of the European Union, which city uniquely holds a treaty-fixed seat for one of the EU's agencies?

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⭐ Core Definition: Agencies of the European Union

The European Union and Euratom have agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings which are established as juridical persons through secondary EU legislation and tasked with a specific narrow field of work. They are a part of the wider set of bodies of the European Union and Euratom and are therefore distinct from:

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👉 Agencies of the European Union in the context of Institutional seats of the European Union

The seven institutions of the European Union (EU) are seated in four different cities, which are Brussels (Belgium), Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Luxembourg (Luxembourg) and Strasbourg (France), rather than being concentrated in a single capital city. The EU agencies and other bodies are located all across the union, but usually not fixed in the treaties. The Hague is the only exception, as the fixed seat of the Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol). Luxembourg City is the EU capital that can lay claim to having the most of the seven EU institutions based wholly or partly upon its territory, with only the European Council and European Central Bank not having a presence in the city. Over the years, Brussels has become the EU's political hub, with the College of the Commissioners — the European Commission's politically accountable executive — and the European Council both meeting at their Brussels-based headquarters, and the European Parliament and Council of the EU holding the majority of their meetings annually within the city. This has led media to describe it as the de facto "capital of the EU."

The seats have been a matter of political dispute since the states first failed to reach an agreement at the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952. However, a final agreement between member states was reached in 1992, and later attached to the Treaty of Amsterdam.

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Agencies of the European Union in the context of Institutions of the European Union

The institutions of the European Union are the seven principal decision-making bodies of the European Union and Euratom governed under the Treaties of the European Union and European Union law. They are, as listed in Article 13 of the Treaty on the European Union:

Institutions are distinct from both advisory bodies to the European Union and agencies of the European Union.

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Agencies of the European Union in the context of Bodies of the European Union and Euratom

The main bodies of the European Union and Euratom are:

Apart from them, some several other bodies exist.

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Agencies of the European Union in the context of European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training

CEPOL, officially the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training, is an agency of the European Union dedicated to training law enforcement officials. The institution was founded in 2000 and adopted its current legal mandate on 1 July 2016. It is based in Budapest, Hungary.

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Agencies of the European Union in the context of European Medicines Agency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) in charge of the evaluation and supervision of pharmaceutical products. Prior to 2004, it was known as the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EAEMP) or European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA).

The EMA was set up in 1995, with funding from the European Union and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as indirect subsidy from member states, its stated intention to harmonise (but not replace) the work of existing national medicine regulatory bodies. The hope was that this plan would not only reduce the €350 million annual cost drug companies incurred by having to win separate approvals from each member state but also that it would eliminate the protectionist tendencies of sovereign states unwilling to approve new drugs that might compete with those already produced by domestic drug companies.

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Agencies of the European Union in the context of Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations

The Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations (APPF) is a body of the European Union in charge of registering, controlling and imposing sanctions on European political parties and European political foundations.

The APPF has offices in Brussels and Strasbourg; since 2021, its Director has been Pascal Schonard.

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← Institutions of the European Union ← European Union institutions ← Bodies of the European Union and Euratom ← Institutional seats of the European Union ← EU institutions ← European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training ← Institutions of the EU ← European Medicines Agency ← Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations ← European Union Aviation Safety Agency
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European Union → Euratom → Bodies of the European Union and Euratom → European Central Bank → European Investment Bank → European University Institute → European Stability Mechanism → Unified Patent Court → Institutions of the European Union → Juridical person → Advisory bodies to the European Union → European Ombudsman → European Data Protection Supervisor → European Research Infrastructure Consortium → European political party → European political foundation → European grouping of territorial cooperation → Societas Europaea → Societas Cooperativa Europaea → European economic interest grouping →