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Regulatory Agencies - Europeanisation of the Regulatory Process (European and Croatian Solutions)

We are witnessing the ‘agencification’ process or phenomenon in the EU, especially as from the year 2000. The number of agencies at the EU level ‘mushroomed’ from 4 in 1993 to 33 in 2010. The agencification process in the EU, however, ensued without a coherent agencification policy. The decade-long issue (initiated with the Commission’s White Paper on European Governance in 2001) has now shifted from elaborating a common model for European agencies to finding a common approach and vision on the role of European agencies in the EU institutional and administrative structure. In 2009, an Inter-institutional Working Group on regulatory agencies has been formed with the task to assess the existing situation, with special emphasis on the application of good governance principles in the operation of European agencies. The authors of this paper will concentrate on several issues. They will reflect on how to best apply and implement good governance principles: accountability, independence, transparency and participation within the framework of regulatory agencies. The main problem seems to lie in achieving equilibrium between independence and accountability. Independent entity should be accountable, but its accountability may not be understood as control. Creating a proper framework whereby “no one controls the agency, yet the agency is under control” (Moe) is still in process at the EU level. The authors will also address the some of the alternatives to agencification process, such as the process of “multilevel governance” (MLG) in policy making and whether the promotion of private practices might lead to changes in the legislation process within the business-states-Commission triangle. After analysing supranational regulatory agencies, the authors will turn to the issue of regulatory agencies in the context of south-eastern enlargement of the EU (especially concentrating on the Croatian model) and further explore the proposals of European networks of national regulators. The paper will show that further europeanisation of regulatory process is a necessity.

regulatory agencies; EU

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