European institutions and bodies

1. Jesús Castillo and Diego Díaz

2. 1-Take decisions in a democratic way.
2-Progressive creation of an international entity
that gurantees: goods
service
Freedom of capital
workforce
3-Approximation of the national policits and
legislations to the general policy of the EU

3.  Head of state Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 4 times a year meet
 ObjectiveGuide the EU’s development, direction
and policy.

7. European Commission (most important)
 Each 5 year there’s a voting
 Commissioner from each state
1. Economy and finance
2. Employment and social issues
3. Energy and transport
4. Agriculture and fishing
5. Environment
5 comissions:
Executive power

9. EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT

10. Basic information
- It has 751 seats
- 1 president / 14 vicepresident
- 2nd largest democratic electorate (375M)
- Elected each 5 years
Meeting place:
- 1st: Louise Weiss: Strasbourg, France
2nd: Espace Léopold: Brussels, Belgium
- Secretariat: Luxembourg & Brussels

13. Powers and functions
-Legislative procedure
-Budget
-Control of the executive power
-Supervisory powers

15. Members
Before 1979 were elected by the
national parliament
After 1979 by universal suffragie
MEPs sit according to ideology
Sits are distribute according to
degressive proportionality

16. Elections

17. GRAND
COALITIONS

18. Court of Justice of
the UE

19. Two major courts:
Court of Justice National courts
1951
General Court Individuals
Companies
1989 National governments

20. Do not confuse with
European court of
Human Rights

22. General courts
-Form by 56 judges since 2016
-Two per country
-Elected each 6 years
-The judges elect:
-Their president
-The presidents of the Chambers of five judges

23. Jurisdiction
-Actions for annulment
-Actions for failure to act
-Actions for damages
-Actions for on an arbitration clause
-Actions concerning the civil service

24. Direct action on:
-Agriculture
-State aid
-Competition
-Commercial policy
-Regional policy
-Social policy
-Institutional law
-Trade mark and design right law
-Transport

25. Court of justice composition
-Judges 28 one each country
6 years terms
-President appointed by the judges
3 years terms
-Vice-president created to assist the president
-Advocates generals 11 per judge
-The Registrar
-Chambers

26. Jurisdiction and powers
-Actions for failure to fulfill obligations:
infringement procedure
-Actions for annulment
-Actions for failure to act
-Application for compensation based on non-
contractual liability
-References for a preliminary ruling
-Appeals on points of law

27. High Representative of
the Union for Foreign
Affairs and Security
Policy

28. Creation
-Introduce in the Treaty of Amsterdam
Secretary-General
-Javier Solana become the first High
Representative
-Treaty of Lisbon
Expand the roles

30. Roles
-Vice-President of the European Commission
-Participant in the meetings of the European
Council
-Responsible of the European Union Special
Representatives
-Head of the External Action Service and
the delegations

31. -President of the Foreign Affairs Council
-Secretary-general of the Western European
Union (prior to the abolition of the WEU on
30 June 2011)
-Head of the European Defense Agency
-Chairperson of the board of the European
Union Institute for Security Studies

32. Who is she/he now?

33. Federica Mogherini