TARN Publications
TARN is committed to fostering dialogue between academics, policymakers, civil servants and other stakeholders to exchange experiences and expertise on topics related to EU agencies or agency-like bodies. Throughout the years, it has offered a platform for exchange of expertise and knowledge between practitioners and academics in annual round tables.
TARN also publishes a working papers series, blog entries and provides information sheets.
TARN Working Paper Series
The TARN working paper series aims to further excellence in scholarship on EU executive governance. Submission is open to scholars who would like to share their research on EU agencies and EU executive governance.
Find the technical guidelines for TARN working papers here.
Editorial Board
- Giacinto della Cananea, Department Law, Bocconi University
- Michelle Everson, School of Law, Birkbeck College
- Johannes Pollak, Political Science Department, Institute for Advanced Studies/Webster University Vienna
- Jarle Trondal, Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder and ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
- Ellen Vos, Maastricht Centre for European Law, Maastricht University
- Merijn Chamon, Department of European, Public and International Law, Ghent University
- Justin Frosini, Bocconi University and John Hopkins Schools of Advanced International Studies, Bologna.
Series Editor
Jarle Trondal
jarle.trondal@arena.uio.no
Issued by ARENA Centre for European Studies | University of Oslo | P.O. Box 1143 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway | www.arena.uio.no
Working Papers 2022
TARN Working Paper 1/2022 ‘Partition or partnership? The role of EU agencies in shaping different models of shared administration in the European Union‘, Aida Halilovic
Working Papers 2021
TARN Working Paper 1/2021 ‘Exploring the Possibility of Interplay between Different Types of Control: Connecting Political and Judicial Accountability in the Case of EASA‘, Lisette Mustert and Miroslava Scholten
Working Papers 2020
TARN Working Paper 5/2020 ‘EU Agencies in Banking and Energy between Institutional and Policy Centralisation’, Sandra Eckert
TARN Working Paper 4/2020 ‘Energy Trading and its Multiplicity of Supervisors: Effectiveness of Fragmented Supervision and Information in View of Reporting Obligations for Energy Trading Companies‘, Liebrich Hiemstra
TARN Working Paper 3/2020 ‘Frontex actions: out of control? The complexity of composite decision-making procedure’, Sarah Tas
TARN Working Paper 2/2020 ‘Public international law as a means to empower EU bodies: The case of the Single Resolution Board (SRB)’, Paul Weismann
TARN Working Paper 1/2020 ‘The EBA’s relationship with Member States in the Banking Union Framework: Supportive or Disruptive?’, Marta Božina Beroš
Working Papers 2019
TARN Working Paper 2/2019 ‘Agency Accountability: Management of Expectations or Answerability to Mandate?’, Andreas Eriksen
TARN Working Paper 1/2019 ‘On Giving Account and Taking Things into Account: The Case of Glyphosate‘, Vesco Paskalev
Working Papers 2018
TARN Working Paper 3/2018 ‘The Troika Is Dead, Long Live the Domestic Troikas?’ Varieties of Technocracy and the Diffusion of National Fiscal Councils in the European Union: Agents, Trustees or Orchestrators of Fiscal Discipline?’, Tobias Tesche
TARN Working Paper 2/2018 ‘Linking EU and National Agencification Processes: A Growing Need to Overcome Inconsistencies’, Joan Solanes Mullor
TARN Working Paper 1/2018 'The EU Agencies’ Role in Diffusion of Policy beyond the EU: EEA, EMA and EFSA', Sevasti Chatzopoulou
Working Papers 2017
TARN Working Paper 16/2017 'The European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex Beyond Borders: The effect of the agency’s external dimension', Vittoria Meissner
TARN Working Paper 15/2017 'Normative power FRONTEX? Assessing agency cooperation with third countries', Helena Ekelund
TARN Working Paper 14/2017 'The Role of EU Agencies in the Acquis Transfer: The Case of the European Neighbourhood Policy Countries', Dovile Rimkute and Karina Shyrokykh
TARN Working Paper 13/12017 'The External Projection of EU’s Agencies: An Emphasis on the Ombudman’s Role', Marco Inglese
TARN Working Paper 12/2017 'Procedural Rule-Making of European Supervisory Agencies (ESAs): An Effective Tool for Legitimacy?', Maurizia de Bellis
TARN Working Paper 11/2017 'Constitutional Limits to the EU Agencies’ External Relations', Merijn Chamon and Valerie Demedts
TARN Working Paper 10/2017 'Networks, Committees, or Agencies?: The Many Faces of the EU Regulatory Space', Emmanuelle Mathieu
TARN Working Paper 9/2017 'Regulation After Agencification: Hierarchy and Uncertainty in the Case of Energy', Bernardo Rangoni
TARN Working Paper 8/2017 'Becoming a Powerful Regulator: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in European Financial Sector Governance', Aneta B Spendzharova
TARN Working Paper 7/2017 'Accountability in the Context of Transgovernmental Networks: A Conceptual Approach', Daniëlle van Osch
TARN Working Paper 6/2017 'The Commission as a network orchestrator in EU multi-level governance? The case of the European Union Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL)', Marta Migliorati
TARN Working Paper 5/2017 'The international dimension of the EU agencies: Charting a legal-institutional ‘twilight zone’, Florin Coman-Kund
TARN Working Paper 4/2017 'Procedural decision-making and the Banking Union: The accountability mechanisms', Marco Macchia
TARN Working Paper 3/2017 'Some reflections on the governance and accountability of the Single Resolution Board', Marta Božina Beroš
TARN Working Paper 2/2017 'Opening the black box of participation in the institutional practice of European agencies', Sara Pernuš
TARN Working Paper 1/2017 'The European Central Bank (ECB) under the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM): Its functioning and its limits', Paul Weismann
Working Papers 2016
TARN Working Paper 8/2016 'The Agencification in the EU Common Security and Defence Policy: The European Defence Agency', Antonio Calcara
TARN Working Paper 7/2016 'The appeal of independence: Exploring Europe’s way of political legitimacy', Antoine Vauchez
TARN Working Paper 6/2016 'Redundancy in multilevel energy governance: Why (and when) regulatory overlap can be valuable', Martijn Groenleer
TARN Working Paper 5/2016 'Agencies in the European Regulatory Union', Herwig C.H. Hofmann
TARN Working Paper 4/2016 'Differentiating multi-level administration: Patterns of administrative co-ordination in the European Union', Arthur Benz
TARN Working Paper 3/2016 'The multi-level administration of the EU: Transnational coordination through national and supranational bureaucracies', Tobias Bach and Eva Ruffing
TARN Working Paper 2/2016 'European integration and its modes: function vs. territory', Giandomenico Majone
TARN Working Paper 1/2016 'Agencification of the European Union administration: Connecting the dots', Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
TARN Briefs
The field of study of EU agencies has vastly increased. This has increased the need for creating more clarity with regard to some of the fundamental notions about agencies in the EU. These information sheets provide basic definitions and knowledge about the essential aspects of EU agencies. To this end, TARN information sheets aim to increase the understanding of EU agencies based on the findings of the TARN research events. In this manner these information sheets are of high importance for teachers and everyone with an interest in EU agencies to gain knowledge and insights into the challenges posed by the agencification process of EU executive governance.
The sheets are organised in the following main themes:
1. Conceptualisation of EU Agencies
2. Types of EU Agencies and Functions
3. Organisation
4. EU Agencies in the EU’s Institutional Landscape
5. EU Agencies and Banking
6. EU Agencies and Transparency
7. EU Agencies, Procedure and Courts
8. EU Agencies, Accountability and Legitimacy
9. EU Agencies, Participation and Independence
10. External Dimension of EU Agencies and Bodies
In addition to the briefs, the TARN network has set out to find a longer-term constitutional perspective upon the appropriate place and framing of EU agencies within the Treaties and the operation of the EU institutional system. Read the TARN statement with long-term recommendations for EU agencies.
TARN Dialogue
In addition to excellence, knowledge, and interdisciplinarity, TARN is committed to dialogue. TARN has integrate policymakers, civil servants and civil society within its objective of fostering the dialogue between academics and these target groups to exchange experiences and expertise. In this manner TARN forms a bridge between academia and practice.
EU Agencies in the Future Europe
On 7 December 2017, TARN co-organized an event entitled ‘EU Agencies in the Future Europe’ in Maastricht. This event was held in the context of the programme of ‘Europe Calling!’, commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty.
What do EU agencies do? Do EU agencies need to be controlled more or better? Do EU agencies need to be more independent? Are EU agencies sufficiently transparent? Do EU agencies need to be merged? Is the model on which EU agencies are based in terms of expertise still sufficient for the future? Do EU agencies need to be spread geographically all over the EU? Do EU agencies need to connect more to citizens? Can EU agencies bring Europe closer to its citizens? These and many other questions were discussed during this debate.
This event was livestreamed. The link can be found here.
TARN Dialogue III
The third dialogue was held in Brussels, on 13 April 2018, in a roundtable format. It was intended to take stock of three years of action and interaction from and between academics and practitioners. An agenda for reform was drawn up in the form of a report from the dialogue session.
TARN Dialogue II
The second TARN Dialogue Event took place in Brussels on 21 September 2017. Academics and practitioners again discussed several topics in breakout panels:
- Budget & Accountability, chaired by Deirdre Curtin (EUI)
- Performance & Effectiveness, chaired by Michelle Everson (Birbeck College, University College London)
- Expertise, Transparency and Independence, chaired by Ellen Vos (Maastricht University)
- International Agency Co-Operation, chaired by Maurizia de Bellis (Tor Vergata University of Rome)
- National Authorities, Stakeholders & Citizens, chaired by Jarle Trondal (Arena, University of Oslo)
The conclusions from the event can be found here.
TARN Dialogue I
During this event, held in Brussels on 29 June 2016, academics and practitioners discussed four topics in breakout sessions:
- Group 1 - Interinstitutional relations, constitutionality and accountability, chaired by Deirdre Curtin (EUI)
- Group 2 - Power, procedures and judicial review, chaired by Giacinto della Cananea (Tor Vergata, Rome University)
- Group 3 - International dimension of EU agencies, chaired by Herwig Hofmann (University of Luxembourg)
- Group 4 - Functionality, budgets, risks and efficiency, chaired by Michelle Everson (Birkbeck College, University College London)
Please find a summary of the groups' conclusion and a general summary here.
