A new TARN Working Paper, written by Andreas Eriksen, entitled ‘Agency Accountability: Management of Expectations or Answerability to Mandate?’ has been published. European agencies are subject to many kinds of control mechanisms and analysts worry that they often suffer from an
New TARN WP published: Vesco Paskalev on Accountability & Glyphosate
Vesco Paskalev “On Giving Account and Taking Things into Account: The Case of Glyphosate”. Risk regulation regimes in the developed world are increasingly ‘science-based’, that isheavily dependent on scientific assessment of the risk conducted by independent and specialised agencies. In
31 August 2018: TARN event in Maastricht
On 31 August 2018, a TARN event entitled ‘Challenges to agencification of EU executive governance’ took place in Maastricht. During this event, Paul Tucker from Harvard Kennedy School and the Systemic Risk Council started the discussion by providing his reflections
TARN Partner presents study to the European Parliament
The European Implementation Assessment (EIA) drawn up by TARN Partner Ellen Vos was presented to the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on 27 November. This EIA ‘EU Agencies, Common Approach and Parliamentary Scrutiny’ was commissioned by the Ex-post Evaluation
TARNYRP member David Fernandez Rojo submits PhD thesis
On 14 December 2018, TARNYRP member David Fernandez Rojo will defend his PhD thesis at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain). The Tribunal Committee is composed of Prof. Alejandro del Valle, Prof. Montserrat Pi Llorens, Prof. Joana Abrisketa, Prof. Christian Kaunert
New logo TARN
TARN is happy to announce its new logo, which can be found on the home page. In addition, TARN’s main focus has expanded to include not only the phenomenon of ‘agencification’, but also the highly relevant topic of ‘institutional innovation’.
Report from the TARN-EBA event in London now available
On 18-19 June, a joint EBA-TARN Conference took place in London on the topic of: ‘Financial Regulation, the Banking Union and the European Banking Authority: Lessons for the Future’. Academics and practitioners came together at the premises of the EBA
18 July 2018: Workshop in Rome
On 18 July, a workshop entitled ‘Procedures of EU Agencies: financial services and public utilities’ will take place in Rome. The programme for the event can be found here
New TARN Blog: Andreas Eriksen on Agencies’ Accountability Overload
Andreas Eriksen, ‘“Accountability overload”: Too much of a good thing?’ (17 July 2018) The study of the accountability of administrative agencies should enable us to assess whether agency decisions are appropriately scrutinized. In order for this to be possible, we
First monograph published on European Union agencies’ international dimension
Florin Coman-Kund, Assistant Professor in European Union Law at the Erasmus School of Law (ESL) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, has recently published a first monograph on the topic of EU agencies’ international cooperation. The publication offers an all-embracing investigation