1st Edition

European Union Agencies as Global Actors A Legal Study of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Frontex and Europol

By Florin Coman-Kund Copyright 2018
    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    348 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book examines a largely unexplored dimension of the European agencies, namely their role in EU external relations and on the international plane. International cooperation has become a salient feature of EU agencies triggering important legal questions regarding the scope and limits of their international dimension, the nature and effects of their international cooperation instruments, their status within the EU and on the global level, and leading potentially to tensions between EU law and international law.



    This book fills the existing knowledge gap by scrutinizing the international cooperation legal framework and practice of EU agencies, including their mandate, tasks and instruments, together with their legal status as actors with a global dimension. It sets out a general legal-analytical framework which combines legal parameters from EU and international law to assess EU agencies as global actors, and examines in detail three case studies on carefully selected agencies to shed light on the complexities of EU agencies’ daily international cooperation.

    Introduction  Part 1: Setting the General Framework  1. The legal profile of EU agencies and their international dimension according to law and practice  2. A legal blueprint for assessing EU agencies as global actors  Part 2: Case Studies  3. The case of the European Aviation Safety Agency  4. The case of Frontex  5. The case of Europol  6. Cross Case-Study Observarions 7. Conclusion

    Biography

    Florin Coman-Kund is Assistant Professor in European Union Law at the Erasmus School of Law (ESL) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands; he is also Associate Researcher in the Academic Research Network on Agencification of EU Executive Governance (TARN).