Report from the Commission. Progress report on the implementation of the common approach on EU decentralised agencies

The Common Approach on EU decentralised agencies agreed in July 2012 by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission defines a more coherent and efficient framework for the functioning of agencies.

The Commission committed to follow-up on this agreement, where relevant in cooperation with the agencies. The Commission's main objectives for the implementation of the Common Approach are: more balanced governance, improved efficiency and accountability and greater coherence. These objectives are of particular importance at a time when efficient and responsible use of resources is paramount.

In its Roadmap of December 2012, the Commission set out in detail how it intended to follow-up on the Common Approach: it listed a number of initiatives for which action was needed on its side, and/or on the side of agencies, the Member States, the European Parliament and the Council. The initiatives are a direct translation of the provisions of the Common Approach into concrete deliverables.

The Roadmap sets deadlines for those deliverables for which the Commission is responsible (30 initiatives) and highlights 5 initiatives that the Commission considers priorities. In addition, it indicates when cooperation with agencies is necessary and when agencies have already started implementing the Common Approach.

In parallel to the actions listed in the Roadmap, the implementation of the Common Approach requires the adaptation of the founding acts of existing agencies following a case by case analysis, as well as the adaptation or adoption of other legislative acts (Staff Regulations, Framework Financial Regulation).

This is the second report on the implementation of the Roadmap presented by the Commission. It focuses in particular on progress made since the adoption of the first report, in December 2013, in respect of Roadmap actions under Commission responsibility.

• Primary Source

EUR-Lex: COM(2015)179: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2015:179:FIN

ESO: Background information: Commission adopts roadmap for reform of agencies http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-commission-adopts-roadmap-for-reform-of-agencies/

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