Delegations USB

Union Syndicale is present in the following European institutions in Brussels.

• the European Economic and Social Committee represents civil society, employers and employees;
• the Committee of the Regions represents regional and local authorities;
• the Council of the European Union, which represents the individual member states;
• the European Commission, which seeks to uphold the interests of the Union as a whole. Linked to the delegation of the European Commission are the following bodies:
  • the European Data Protection Supervisor safeguards the privacy of people’s personal data;
  • the European Personnel Selection Office recruits staff for the EU institutions and other bodies;
  • the European Administrative School task is to provide training in specific areas for members of EU staff.
  • The Community agencies
    A Community agency is a body governed by European public law; it is distinct from the Community Institutions (Council, Parliament, Commission, etc.) and has its own legal personality. It is set up by an act of secondary legislation in order to accomplish a very specific technical, scientific or managerial task.
  • The Common Security and Defence Policy agencies
    Agencies have been set up to carry out very specific technical, scientific and management tasks within the framework of European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy.
  • The Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters agencies
    Another group of agencies has been set up to help the EU Member States co-operate in the fight against organised international crime.
  • The Executive agencies
    Executive agencies are organisations established in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 (OJ L 11, 16.1.2003) with a view to being entrusted with certain tasks relating to the management of one or more Community programmes. These agencies are set up for a fixed period.
  • EURATOM Agencies and bodies
    These bodies are created to support the aims of the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty (EURATOM). The purpose of the Treaty is to coordinate the Member States' research programmes for the peaceful use of nuclear energy, to provide knowledge, infrastructure and funding of nuclear energy and to ensure sufficiency and security of atomic energy supply.
• the EUROCONTROL the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, is an intergovernmental organisation made up of 39 Member States and the European Community
• the European Parliament (EP), which represents the EU’s citizens and is directly elected by them;
  linked to the delegation of the European Parliament is the European Ombudsman, who investigates complaints about maladministration by EU institutions and bodies.