The document discusses the roles and responsibilities of the European Commission. It begins by outlining the role of the Commission President from 2014-2019, Jean-Claude Juncker. It then provides information on the singular governmental structure of the EU, including the Council, Parliament, and Court of Justice. The rest of the document details the composition and functions of the European Commission, including allocating portfolios, recruiting civil servants, policing EU law, financial planning, and external relations.

1. THE COMMISSION
CHAPTER 7- EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
PROFESSOR TORNIKE NOZADZE
SAMIN& MACCAULAY & STEVE

2. PRESIDENT (2014-2019)
Jean-Claude Juncker
The President is the head of the European Commission. According to the Treaties,
he decides on the organization of the Commission, allocates portfolios to
members of the Commission and can make changes at any time. The President
also determines the Commission's policy agenda, defending the general
European interest. The President was elected by the European Parliament on the
basis of his Political Guidelines that were formed drawing on his contacts with the
parliamentary committees and the strategic guidelines for the Union presented by
the European Council of 27 June 2014

3. Singular governmental structure of
the European Union
 Council

4. Singular governmental structure of
the European Union
 Council Made up member states’ government ministers,
Shares legislative authority with the directly
elected European Parliament

5.  Council Made up member states’ government ministers,
Shares legislative authority with the directly
elected European Parliament
 Parliament
Singular governmental structure of
the European Union

6.  Council Made up member states’ government ministers,
Shares legislative authority with the directly
elected European Parliament
 Parliament
 Court of Justice
Singular governmental structure of
the European Union

7.  Council Made up member states’ government ministers,
Shares legislative authority with the directly
elected European Parliament
 Parliament
 Court of Justice Consists of judges appointed by the
member states
Singular governmental structure of
the European Union

8. The Court of Justice – upholding the law
28 independent judges, one from each EU country
• Rules on how to interpret EU law
• Ensures EU countries apply EU laws in the same way

9. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
 The commission characterizes supranationalism
 Its member are NOMINATED by the national governments
 Has multinational civil services
 Has exclusive right to initiate legislation in most policy areas
 Has quasi-executive authority

10. 1 President, 7 Vice-Presidents
and 20 Commissioners
A new team of 28 Commissioners (one from each EU Member State) is appointed every five years.
The candidate for President of the Commission is proposed to the European Parliament by the European
Council that decides by qualified majority and taking into account the elections to the European
Parliament.
The Commission President is then elected by the European Parliament by a majority of its component
members (which corresponds to at least 376 out of 751 votes).
Following this election, the President-elect selects the 27 other members of the Commission, on the basis
of the suggestions made by Member States. The final list of Commissioners-designate has then to be
agreed between the President-elect and the Council.
The Commission as a whole needs the Parliament's consent. Prior to this, Commissioners-designate are
assessed by the European Parliament committees.
The current Commission's term of office runs until 31 October 2019. Its President is Jean-Claude Juncker

11. José Manuel Barroso
José Manuel Durão Barroso, born 23 March 1956 is a Portuguese politician who
was the 11th President of the European Commission, serving from 2004 to 2014. He
served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 6 April 2002 to 17 July 2004.
During his first presidency, the following important issues were on the
Commission's agenda: TURKEY applying for EU membership, the reform of the
institutions (Treaty of Lisbon), the Bolkestein Directive, aimed at creating a single
market for services within the EU, Lisbon Strategy, Galileo positioning system,
Doha Development Agenda negotiations, European Institute of Innovation and
Technology , and an EU climate change package
In 2012 Barroso has called for the EU to evolve into a "federation of nation-
states". Addressing the EU parliament in Strasbourg, Barroso said he believed
Greece would be able to stay in the Eurozone if it stood by its commitments.
Barroso also set out plans for a single supervisory mechanism for all banks in the
eurozone.

12. Directorates-General and agencies
 There are 23 000 staff members working in the Commission in departments, known
as Directorates-General (DGs) or services, each responsible for a particular policy area
and headed by a Director-General.
 The DGs draft laws, but their proposals become official only once the College of
Commissioners adopts them during its weekly meeting.
• The DGs also manage funding initiatives at EU level, carry out
public consultations and communication activities.
• The Commission also administers a number of executive
agencies, which help the European Commission manage EU
programs.

13. Allocation of Portfolios
 The term commission is used either in the narrow sense of the 28-member College of
Commissioners (or College) or to also include the administrative body of about
23,000 European civil servants who are split into departments called Directorates-
General and Services
 A portfolio in the European Commission is an area of responsibility assigned to
a European Commissioner, usually connected to one or several Directorates-
General (DGs).

14.  Who allocates this portfolios? Who decides who does what
and who get this job.
 Early stages of Commission
 What should portfolios be about and in whose interest?

15.  Current portfolios
 Agriculture and Rural Development
 Climate Action
 Competition
 Development
 Digital Agenda
 Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs
 Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth
 Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
 Energy
 Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy
 Environment
 Financial Programming and Budget
 Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets
Union

16.  Industry and Entrepreneurship
 Internal Market and Services
 International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response
 Inter institutional Relations and Administration
 Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
 Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
 Regional Policy
 Research, Innovation and Science
 Taxation, Customs, Statistics, Audit and Anti-Fraud
 Trade and Transport

17. Organization of the college
 Its called the cabinet and its main function is to advice the
commissioners
 Its includes career eutocrats' and appointees who comes to Brussels
with the commissioners and goes with them.

18. Recruitment and promotion
 The European Civil Service is the civil
service serving the institutions of the
European Union, of which the largest
employer is the European Commission.
 Civil servants are recruited directly into the
institutions after being selected
by competitions set by the European
Personnel Selection Office(EPSO), the official
selection office. They are allocated to
departments, known as Directorates-
General (DGs), each covering one or more
related policy areas.

19.  Civil servant promotion are divided into a set of grades: from
AD 5, the most junior administrator grade, to AD 16, which is a
director-general (AD = administrator). however in practice the
grades remain entrenched.
 While promotion is in theory according to merit, many
management posts are now taken by officials 'parachuted in'
from member states.
 According to the Commission's own internal statistics, even
though new officials possess an average of eight years work
experience, it would take an average of over 40 years to
climb from AD 5 to AD 16.

20. Reforms
 The resignation of the College of Commissioners in 1999
triggered the drafting and implementation of a White Paper
entitled 'Reforming the Commission' which listed 98 measures
to overhaul the ways the Commission did business. Ten years
later, the time has come to ask what impact the reforms
instigated by Neil Kinnock have had on the European
Commission and the wider European governance.

21. The commission roles and
responsibilities
 Proposing and shaping legislations
 Financial planning: initiating and managing the budget.
 Executing and implementing policy.
 Policing EU law.
 Conducting external relations.
 Contributing to enlargement and treaty reform.
 Monitoring and reporting on major EU developments.
 Pointing the way forward.

22. Legislative Role
The Treaty authorizes the commission to flesh out the treaty’s skeletal
framework by making recommendations, delivering opinions and
proposing legislations.

23. Financial Planning and the
budget

25. Policing Community Law
The Commission as the guardian or European OGA Police.

26. The Lisbon Treaty states that “ with the exception of the CFSP and the
other cases provided for in the treaty, the commission shall ensure the
union’s external representations.

27. The council is the head institution in the enlargement process, with the
Presidency conducting the negotiation on behalf of the EU but the
commission is the body that prepares/ opinion on the suitability of an
applicant country to EU.

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