Workshop The Boards of Appeal of EU Agencies ( GLaw online)
The role of the Boards of Appeal within EU agencies is a topic of increasing interest in EU law. The proliferation and the progressive empowerment of EU agencies with decision-making powers is typically accompanied by the creation of a specific mechanism serving as the first tier for challenging decisions adopted by these agencies. Today, such Boards of Appeal are present in the structure of ten EU agencies and they perform a quasi-judicial function by reviewing acts adopted in a number of technical and sometimes politically sensitive domains. Although by now this adjudicatory mechanism constitutes an established reality in the EU administrative landscape, its hybrid nature and the peculiar relationship with the agency it is embedded in, remain ill-understood. The recent reform of the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union has added a further dimension to this debate and again puts the possible role which the Boards of Appeal may play in the EU judicial architecture at the forefront.
CAMPUS BRUSSELS (of Maastricht University)
Workshop Info
In this two-day workshop, reputed academics and young scholars specialised on EU law, as well as practitioners working with or in the Boards of Appeal of the EU agencies, will discuss these issues. The first day will be devoted to the discussion of a number of case studies, in principle one for each agency with a Board of Appeal. In the second day of the workshop, the speakers will focus on ‘horizontal’ issues, analysing the relevant cross-cutting problems from the perspective of EU constitutional, institutional and procedural law.
Programme on 21 September
| 13.00 | Opening by Mariolina Eliantonio (Maastricht University) |
| 13.15 | Keynote address by Judge Paul Nihoul (Court of Justice of the European Union) |
| PANEL I: Case Studies (chair: Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University) | |
| 13.45 | The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities and the Appeal Panel of the SRB (Merijn Chamon and Diane Fromage, Maastricht University) |
| 14.05 | Boards of Appeal of the European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators and the European Railway Agency (Carlo Tovo, Court of Justice of the European Union) |
| 14.25 | The Boards of Appeal of EU Agencies established on a Common Foreign and Security Policy legal basis (Graham Butler, Aarhus University) |
| 14.45 | Discussion |
| 15.30 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 | The Board of Appeal of the European Aviation Safety Agency (Marta Simoncini, LUISS University and Micaela Verissimo, European Union Aviation Safety Agency) |
| 16.20 | The Boards of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Agency and the Community Plant Variety Office (Dominik Hanf, EUIPO) |
| 16.40 | The Board of Appeal of the European Chemicals Agency (Annalisa Volpato, Maastricht University and Eléonore Mullier, Steptoe) |
| 17.00 | Discussion |
Programme on 22 September
| PANEL II: Horizontal studies (chair: Annalisa Volpato, Maastricht University) | |
| 9.30 | The Mechanism of Boards of Appeal in a Comparative Perspective (Rob Widdershoven, Utrecht University) |
| 9.50 | Who litigates before the Boards of Appeal? Identifying the Typical Claimant before the Board of Appeal (Laura Muzi, Bocconi University) |
| 10.10 | The Review Exercised by the General Court and the Revised Statute of the CJEU (Luca De Lucia, University of Salerno) |
| 10.30 | Discussion |
| 11.00 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | The position of Boards of Appeal: between Functional Continuity and Independence (Jacopo Alberti, University of Ferrara) |
| 11.50 | The Scope of Review of the Boards of Appeal ( Michał Krajewski, University of Copenhagen) |
| 12.10 | Discussion |
| 12.30 | Way forward for the publication project |
| 12.50 | Closing |
| 13.00 | Lunch |
How to get to UM Campus Brussels
Metro: from the Central station take the purple metro line 1 leading to Stockel (not line 5 to Herrmann-Debroux) and get off at ‘Montgomery’. Take exit ‘Boulevard de Saint-Michel / Avenue de Tervueren 1-171 and then turn right. The UM Campus Brussels will be after 30 meters on your left hand.
Brussels Airport: take bus 12 or bus 21 that both cover the area between Brussels Airport and the city center. In both cases get off at ‘Diamant’ and take the tram line 23 or 24 both in the direction of ‘Vanderkindere’ or take line 25 in the direction of Boondaal Station. Get off at ‘Montgomery’. Take exit ‘Boulevard de Saint-Michel / Avenue de Tervueren 1-171 and then turn right. The UM Campus Brussels will be after 30 meters on your left hand.
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