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All EU agencies which have the power to adopt binding decisions share one feature: an organisationally separate administrative review body, i.e. a board of appeal. This title presents a series of case studies covering all the EU boards of appeal in existence, to explore how they function, the kind of reviews they offer, and the issues they raise.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Between Added Value and Untapped Potential: The Boards of Appeal in the Field of EU Financial Regulation
- 2: The Boards of Appeal of Networked Services Agencies: Specialized Arbitrators of Transnational Regulatory Conflicts?
- 3: The Trailblazers: The Boards of Appeal of EUIPO and CPVO
- 4: The Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency at a Crossroads
- 5: The EASA Board of Appeal in Search of Identity: An Effective Filter Between Administration and Courts?
- 6: Hidden Administrative Review in EU Law: The BoAs of EU Agencies in the Common Foreign and Security Policy
- 7: Frontex: Great Powers but No Appeals
- 8: The Boards of Appeal as Hybrid Adjudicators: On Some Shortcomings of Article 58a of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union
- 9: Rethinking the Position of the Boards of Appeal from a Comparative Perspective
- 10: Who Litigates Before the Boards of Appeal?
- 11: The Position of Boards of Appeal: Between Functional Continuity and Independence
- 12: Judicial and Extra-Judicial Review: The Quest for Epistemic Certainty
- 13: Boards of Appeal of EU Agencies and Article 47 of the Charter: Uneasy Bedfellows?
- Conclusion
About the author
Merijn Chamon is Assistant Professor of EU Law at Maastricht University and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges). He obtained his PhD at Ghent University on the topic of EU agencies. At the same institution he has also been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Flemish Research Foundation on a project dedicated to mixed agreements in the EU's external relations. Merijn's research interests lie in EU constitutional, institutional, and procedural law as well as in the law of EU external relations.
Annalisa Volpato is Assistant Professor of European Administrative Law at Maastricht University. She is also Managing Editor of the Review of European Administrative Law. Annalisa obtained her Ph.D. in EU law at University of Padua and Maastricht University (double degree). She was visiting researcher at York University and at EUI (Florence). Her research interests concern the institutional and administrative aspects of EU law, in particular the delegation of powers to EU institutions, EU agencies and standardisation bodies.
Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor of European and Comparative Administrative Law and Procedure. Her research is focused on the enforcement of European law before national and EU courts. She does research specifically on the theme of access to court before national and European courts (with a special focus on environmental matters), on the Europeanisation process of national procedural administrative law and on the judicial review of the new modes of governance, especially soft law and technical standardisation.
Summary
All EU agencies which have the power to adopt binding decisions share one feature: an organisationally separate administrative review body, i.e. a board of appeal. This title presents a series of case studies covering all the EU boards of appeal in existence, to explore how they function, the kind of reviews they offer, and the issues they raise.
