Agencies of the European Union

Nevertheless, in relations with other non-EU third countries, they are in general not recognised as independent entities, thus being considered either parts of the juridical personality of the EU or Euratom.

[1] Some of the agencies, decentralised independent bodies and joint undertakings of the European Union and Euratom are tasked with answering the need to develop scientific or technical know-how in certain fields, others bring together different interest groups to facilitate dialogue at European and international level.

[3] Single market agencies (under the former I Pillar) London (1995–2019)[a] ( UK until 2019)[a] Area of freedom, security and justice agencies (under the former III Pillar) Bramshill (2005–2014) ( UK till 2014) European supervisory authorities (of the European System of Financial Supervision) London (2011–2019)[a] ( UK till 2019)[a] Single Resolution Mechanism bodies (of the European banking union) Common Security and Defence Policy agencies (under the former II Pillar) Executive agencies are created by European Commission for a fixed period.

A joint undertaking is a juridical person and a subsidiary body of the EU or Euratom, established through an agreement between the European Commission, the participating member states, and the European industry of a certain field, with the purpose of implementing a public-private partnership project.

The list includes the two decentralised bodies other than agencies, established as EU juridical persons through secondary legislation of the EU/Euratom.