Agencies of the European Union

Decentralised agencies

Distinct from the EU institutions, the agencies of the European Union are specialist bodies set up to advise the EU and Member States in areas that affect everyone living in the EU. They are located in countries across the EU, from Dublin to Helsinki, Tallinn to Lisbon providing services, information and know-how. The total budget of all the decentralised agencies is approximately 0.8% of the EU’s annual budget.

The EU Agencies Network brings together more than 40 agencies to exchange information and good practices and increase the visibility of their work, helping to benefit institutions and citizens throughout the EU.

The European Space Agency has been proposed as a future agency of the EU.^[2]

Official name	Abbreviation	Location	Member state	Est.	Members and observers
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work	EU-OSHA	Bilbao	Spain	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[3]
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training	Cedefop	Thessaloniki	Greece	1975	members: EU states observers: Iceland, Norway[4]
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions	EUROFOUND	Dublin	Ireland	1975	members: EU states, European Commission observers:EFTA[5]
European Environment Agency	EEA	Copenhagen	Denmark	1994	members: EU states, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey[6] co-operating: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
European Institute of Innovation and Technology	EIT	Budapest	Hungary	2010	members: EU states
European Training Foundation	ETF	Turin	Italy	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[7]
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction	EMCDDA	Lisbon	Portugal	1993	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament, Norway observers: Turkey[8]
European Medicines Agency	EMA	London (1995-2019)[lower-alpha 1]  Amsterdam (2019-)	United Kingdom (1995-2019)[lower-alpha 1] The Netherlands (2019-)	1995	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway[10]
European Union Intellectual Property Office[11]	EUIPO[12]	Alicante	Spain	1999	members: EU states, European Commission[13]
Community Plant Variety Office	CPVO	Angers	France	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[14]
Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union	CdT	Luxembourg City	Luxembourg	1994	members: EU states, European Commission[15]
European Food Safety Authority	EFSA	Parma	Italy	2002	members: EU states observers European Commission, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland
European Maritime Safety Agency	EMSA	Lisbon	Portugal	2002	members: EU states, European Commission, Iceland, Norway[16]
European Aviation Safety Agency	EASA	Cologne	Germany	2003	members: EU states, European Commission, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland[17] observers: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, UNMIK[18]
European Network and Information Security Agency	ENISA	Heraklion	Greece	2005	members: EU states[19]
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control	ECDC	Stockholm	Sweden	2005	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway[20]
European GNSS Agency	GSA	Prague	Czech Republic	2004	members: EU states, European Commission observers: Norway, European Space Agency[21]
European Railway Agency	ERA	Valenciennes and  Lille	France	2004	members: EU states, European Commission, Norway[22]
European Fisheries Control Agency	EFCA	Vigo	Spain	2005	members: EU states, European Commission[23]
European Chemicals Agency	ECHA	Helsinki	Finland	2007	members: EU states, European Commission, European Parliament observers: Iceland, Norway[24]
European Institute for Gender Equality	EIGE	Vilnius	Lithuania	2007	members: EU states[25]
European Defence Agency	EDA	Brussels	Belgium	2004	members: EU states without Denmark; European Commission participant: Norway
European Institute for Security Studies	ISS	Paris	France	2001
European Union Satellite Centre	SatCen	Madrid	Spain	2002
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training	CEPOL	Budapest	Hungary	2005	members: EU states associates: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland[26]
European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation	Europol	The Hague	The Netherlands	1999	members: EU states
European body for the enhancement of judicial co-operation	Eurojust	The Hague	The Netherlands	2002	members: EU states
Fundamental Rights Agency	FRA	Vienna	Austria	2007	members: EU states, European Commission, Council of Europe[27]
Body of European Regulators of Electronic Communications	BEREC	Riga	Latvia	2010	members: EU states, European Commission[28]
European Systemic Risk Board	ESRB	Frankfurt	Germany	2010	[29]
Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators	ACER	Ljubljana	Slovenia	2011
European Banking Authority	EBA	London (2011-2019)[lower-alpha 1]  Paris (2019-)	United Kingdom (2011-2019)[lower-alpha 1] France (2019-)	2011	[30]
European Securities and Markets Authority	ESMA	Paris	France	2011	[31]
European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority	EIOPA	Frankfurt	Germany	2011	[32]
European Asylum Support Office	EASO	Valletta	Malta	2011[33]
European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT Systems in the area of freedom, security and justice[34]	eu-LISA[35]	Tallinn[36]	Estonia	2012
European Border and Coast Guard Agency	Frontex	Warsaw	Poland	2016[37]	members: EU states, except United Kingdom and Ireland, Schengen Area states not members of the EU

Executive agencies

Executive agencies are created by European Commission for a fixed period.

Euratom agencies

Independent bodies