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European Aviation Safety Agency
(EASA)
Location:
Cologne, Germany
easa.europa.eu
The EASA promotes the highest possible
standards of safety and environmental protection
in EU civil aviation, and provides certifi cation for
planes and components.
European Centre for the Development
of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
Location:
Thessaloniki, Greece
cedefop.europa.eu
The centre promotes the development of
vocational education and training. It is a centre of
expertise for the dissemination of knowledge and
support for policymaking.
European Centre for Disease
Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Location:
Stockholm, Sweden
ecdc.europa.eu
ECDC identifi es, assesses and provides
information on current and emerging threats to
human health from infectious diseases, such as
infl uenza, SARS and HIV/AIDS.
European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
Location:
Helsinki, Finland
ec.europa.eu/echa
The agency manages the technical, scientifi c
and administrative aspects of REACH, the EU
registration system for chemicals.
European Defence Agency (EDA)
Location:
Brussels, Belgium
eda.europa.eu
The EDA helps promote coherence in place
of fragmentation in Europe’s defence and
security capabilities, including in armaments and
equipment, research and operations.
European Environment Agency (EEA)
Location:
Copenhagen, Denmark
eea.europa.eu
The EEA provides policymakers and the public
with information to help promote sustainable
development and improvements in Europe’s
environment.
European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA)
Location:
Parma, Italy
efsa.europa.eu
The authority provides the Commission and the
public with independent scientifi c advice on food
safety and risks in the food chain ‘from farm to
fork’.
European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions (Eurofound)
Location:
Dublin, Ireland
eurofound.europa.eu
The foundation is a hub of information on social
policy issues, including employment and living
conditions, industrial relations and partnership,
and social cohesion.
European Global Navigation Satellite
System Supervisory Authority (GSA)
Location:
Brussels, Belgium (provisional
headquarters)
ec.europa.eu/transport/gsa
This agency manages Europe’s satellite navigation
programmes (notably Galileo and EGNOS), which
are giving Europe its own capability and the latest
technology in this fi eld.
European Institute for Gender Equality
Location:
Vilnius, Lithuania
This new institute promotes gender equality,
including gender mainstreaming, and supports
the fi ght against discrimination.
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European Maritime Safety Agency
(EMSA)
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
emsa.europa.eu
EMSA provides the Commission and the EU
countries with technical and scientifi c advice on
how to improve safety and security at sea and
prevent marine pollution.
European Medicines Agency (EMEA)
Location:
London, United Kingdom
emea.europa.eu
EMEA advises the Commission when human
and veterinary medicines are ready to be put on
the EU market. It monitors adverse effects, and
provides scientifi c advice.
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs
and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA)
Location:
Lisbon, Portugal
emcdda.europa.eu
The centre is a source of objective, reliable
and comparable information on drugs and drug
addiction in order to help policymakers identify
common problems and goals.
European Network and Information
Security Agency (ENISA)
Location:
Heraklion (Crete), Greece
enisa.europa.eu
ENISA helps ensure that information networks
and the data they carry are secure by collecting
information, analysing risks, raising awareness and
promoting best practice.
European Police College (CEPOL)
Location:
Bramshill, United Kingdom
cepol.net
The college trains senior EU police offi cials and
prepares training programmes for middle-ranking
offi cers, with a particular emphasis on combating
cross-border crime.
European Police Offi ce (Europol)
Location:
The Hague, Netherlands
www.europol.europa.eu
Europol aims at improving the effectiveness and
cooperation of law enforcement authorities in the
EU countries in their fi ght against international
organised crime.
European Railway Agency (ERA)
Location:
Lille/Valenciennes, France
www.era.europa.eu
This agency works on common approaches
to railway safety and common standards for
interoperability of railways to pave the way for a
fully integrated EU network.
European Training Foundation (ETF)
Location:
Turin, Italy
etf.europa.eu
The ETF helps improve vocational training in
non-EU countries, mainly around the
Mediterranean, in eastern Europe and in Russia.
European Union Agency for
Fundamental Rights (FRA)
Location:
Vienna, Austria
fra.europa.eu
This agency collects and disseminates objective,
and comparable information on fundamental
rights matters, and advises on how to promote
these rights. This can be in relation to racism and
xenophobia but also other fundamental rights.
European Union Institute for Security
Studies (EUISS)
Location:
Paris, France
www.iss-eu.org
The institute aims to help create a common
European security culture, to enrich the strategic
debate, and systematically to promote the security
interests of the Union.
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European Union Satellite Centre
(EUSC)
Location:
Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
www.eusc.europa.eu
The centre collects and analyses data and images
from earth observation satellites in support of
EU foreign and security policy priorities and
humanitarian activities.
Executive Agency for the Public Health
Programme (PHEA)
Location:
Luxembourg
ec.europa.eu/phea
PHEA manages the practicalities of EU funding
programmes for public health projects, and feeds
the results back to public-health stakeholders and
policymakers.
Offi ce for Harmonisation in the Internal
Market (Trade Marks and Designs)
(OHIM)
Location:
Alicante, Spain
www.oami.europa.eu
The offi ce registers trade marks and designs.
These are then valid across the EU. This system
exists side-by-side with the individual EU countries’
domestic registration systems.
Translation Centre for the Bodies of
the European Union (CDT)
Location:
Luxembourg
cdt.europa.eu
The centre provides translation services for the
specialised agencies of the EU.
The European Aviation Safety Agency is working to make flying ever safer and environmentally sustainable.
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European Commission
How the European Union works
Your guide to the EU institutions
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
2007 — 46 pp. — 16.2 x 22.9 cm
ISBN 92-79-03653-X
The European Union (EU) is unique. It is not a federal state like the United States of America because its member
countries remain independent sovereign nations. Nor is it a purely intergovernmental organisation like the United
Nations because the member countries do pool some of their sovereignty — and thus gain much greater collective
strength and influence than they could have acting individually.
They pool their sovereignty by taking joint decisions through shared institutions such as the European Parliament,
which is elected by the EU citizens, and the Council, which represents national governments. They decide on the
basis of proposals from the European Commission, which represents the interests of the EU as a whole. But what
does each of these institutions do? How do they work together? Who is responsible for what?
This booklet sets out the answers in clear and simple language. It also gives a brief overview of the agencies and
other bodies that are involved in the European Union’s work. The aim is to provide you with a helpful guide to EU
decision-making.
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Other information about the European Union
Go online
Information in all the official languages of the European Union and
opportunities to tell us what you think are at:
europa.eu
Visit us
All over Europe there are hundreds of local EU information centres. You
can find the address of the centre nearest you on this website:
europedirect.europa.eu
Call or write to us
EUROPE
DIRECT
is a service which answers your questions about the
European Union. You can contact this service by freephone:
00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (or by payphone from outside the EU: (32-2) 299
96 96), or by electronic mail via:
europedirect.europa.eu
Read about Europe
Publications about the EU are only a click away on the EU Bookshop
website:
bookshop.europa.eu
You can also obtain information and booklets in English
about the European Union from:
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EUROPEAN COMMISSION REPRESENTATIONS
Representation in Ireland
18 Dawson Street
Dublin 2
Tel. (353-1) 634 11 11
Fax (353-1) 634 11 12
Internet: ec.europa.eu/ireland/
E-mail: eu-ie-info-request@ec.europa.eu
Representation in the United Kingdom
8 Storey’s Gate
London SW1P 3AT
Tel. (44-20) 79 73 19 92
Fax (44-20) 79 73 19 00/10
Internet: ec.europa.eu/uk
Representation in Wales
2 Caspian Point
Caspian Way
Cardiff CF10 4QQ
Tel. (44-29) 20 89 50 20
Fax (44-29) 20 89 50 35
Internet: ec.europa.eu/uk
Representation in Scotland
9 Alva Street
Edinburgh EH2 4PH
Tel. (44-131) 225 20 58
Fax (44-131) 226 41 05
Internet: ec.europa.eu/uk
Representation in Northern Ireland
Windsor House
9/15 Bedford Street
Belfast BT2 7EG
Tel. (44-28) 90 24 07 08
Fax (44-28) 90 24 82 41
Internet: ec.europa.eu/uk
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OFFICES
Office in Ireland
European Union House
43 Molesworth Street
Dublin 2
Tel. (353-1) 605 79 00
Fax (353-1) 605 79 99
Internet: europarl.ie
E-mail: epdublin@europarl.europa.eu
United Kingdom Office
Representation in the United
States
2 Queen Anne’s Gate
London SW1H 9AA
Tel. (44-20) 72 27 43 00
Fax (44-20) 72 27 43 02
Internet: www.europarl.org.uk
E-mail: eplondon@europarl.europa.eu
2300 M Street, NW – 3rd floor
Washington DC 20037
Tel. (202) 862 95 00
Fax (202) 429 17 66
Internet: eurunion.org
222 East 41st Street, 20th floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel. (212) 371 38 04
Fax (212) 688 10 13
Internet: eurunion.org
Office in Scotland
The Tun
4 Jackson’s Entry
Holyrood Road
Edinburgh EH8 8PJ
Tel. (44-131) 557 78 66
Fax (44-131) 557 49 77
Internet: www.europarl.org.uk
E-mail: epedinburgh@europarl.europa.eu
There are European Commission and Parliament representations and offices in all the countries of the
European Union. The European Commission also has delegations in other parts of the world.
May 2007
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