Abstract:
Over the past two years, a number of Court judgments were delivered in cases involving agencies or concerning agency powers in the EU. These decisions consolidate a body of principles relating to agencies’ establishment, functioning and control, or they confirm ideas or assumptions on the status of agencies in the Union’s institutional framework. At the same time, legislative developments - notably but not exclusively, the interinstitutional negotiations on the establishment of the Anti-Money-Laundering Authority - show that agencification remains a priority policy tool. With these judicial and legislative developments, it is (still) timely and pertinent to reflect on the constitutional context of agencification and on mechanisms of accountability that are commensurate with agency powers.
About the speaker:
Judicaël Etienne is a member of the Legal Service in the European Parliament, working in the unit for economic and scientific policies. He previously worked in the unit for external relations, providing legal assistance to the Committee on International Trade. Judicaël Etienne holds a Master in Law from the University of Louvain (2001) and a LL.M. EUR from the University of Leipzig (2003). He was also an Emile Noël Fellow and Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) Fellow in the Jean Monnet Centre of NYU School of Law (2010-2011). Before joining the European Parliament, Judicaël Etienne was a doctoral student, assistant and then lecturer at the University of Louvain, where he wrote a doctoral thesis in the area of the law of the Union's external relations (2010).