Workshop conveners:
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
The Jean Monnet network TARN, composed of nine partners from various disciplines, will promote the multi- and interdisciplinary research needed to address the many facets of the problems posed by the agencification process. TARN research will entail perspectives from law, social and political sciences and public administration. The network will stimulate research on the following three themes:
Constitutionality, powers and legitimacy of EU agencies: Post Lisbon, agencies lack a constitutional position in Articles 290-291 TFEU. What is the role of agencies within the institutional balance, in view of their hybrid character and their dual harnessing of expertise and administrative capacity outside the executive competence of the EU Commission? What constitutes the legitimacy of agency-like bodies? What does the concept of independence entail? What can be learned from institutions such as the European Central Bank?
Globalisation of agencification: What is the legal character of the various forms of agreements that agencies conclude with third countries and international organisations? Has their increasingly global competence brought about a shift in the EU’s institutional balance? Are globalisation processes leading to the establishment of transnational agencies and processes of knowledge production?
EU agencies’ functional operation and effectiveness: In their great diversity, agencies nevertheless raise one common question: how might they best be organised in order to furnish optimal efficacy? The question of effectiveness extends beyond issues of technical capacity to encompass instead internal organisational issues, such as budgetary sufficiency, protocols of understanding between European and national actors, issues of staff management, as well as internal structures of good governance.
Based on these themes, this first workshop will discuss papers of a conceptual, theoretical or state-of the-art nature.
Programme
Monday 1 February 2016
12.00-13.00 Lunch
First session, 13.00-15.00
Chair: Morten Egeberg, University of Oslo
The multi-level administration of the EU: Transnational coordination through national and supranational bureaucracies
Tobias Bach, University of Oslo
Eva Ruffing, University of Hamburg
Agencification of the European Union administration: Connecting the dots
Morten Egeberg, University of Oslo
Jarle Trondal, University of Agder and University of Oslo
Regulating complexity in the European Union: The role of the European Centre for Decease Prevention and Control in the H1N1 case
Jinhee Kim, Maastricht University
Esther Versluis, Maastricht University
Commission’s power on the rise: The role of ACER for the European energy security
Elina Brutschin, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Johannes Pollak, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Second session, 15.30-17.30
Chair: Michelle Everson, Birkbeck College, London
Only connect! International agency networks in the ICT sector
Olga Batura, University of Bremen and University of Luneburg
‘Prophets of integration’: EU agencies and their international roots
Jacopo Alberti, University of Pavia
Dilemmas of legitimacy and effectiveness in ESMA’s soft rule-making process
Marloes van Rijsbergen, University of Utrecht
Beyond metaphors: Exploring networked patterns of transgovernmental relations
Machiel van der Heijden, University of Leiden
Kutsal Yesilkagit, University of Leiden
19.00 Workshop dinner at Bølgen & Moi Tjuvholmen Restaurant.
Tuesday 2 February 2015
Third session, 09.30-11.30
Chair: Ellen Vos, Maastricht University
ESMA supervising: On the interaction between EU and national legal orders
Marloes van Rijsbergen, University of Utrecht
Miroslava Scholten, University of Utrecht
The legitimacy of (empowering) EU agencies post-Short-selling
Merijn Chamon, University of Gent
EU agencies as complementary centres of administrative power: A normative and jurisdictional perspective on the polarisation of EU executive
Carlo Tovo, University of Bologna
Agencification by stealth: On the eroding constitutional bases to assess the establishment and empowerment of EU agencies
Andreas Orator, WU Vienna University of Economics
11.30-12.30 Lunch
Fourth session, 12.30-14.30
Chair: Jarle Trondal, University of Agder and University of Oslo
The dynamics of agencification in Europe: The case of the institutionalization of the CESR
Martino Maggetti, University of Lausanne
The effect of European Union agencies on the expertise-executive nexus in the European Commission
Åse Gornitzka, University of Oslo
The European Parliament oversight of EU agencies through written questions
Nuria Font, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Accountability regimes and the EU’s agency world
Johannes Pollak, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Michael Buess, University of Lucerne
Practical information
Participation upon invitation