Abstract
EU decentralised agencies dispose of a wide network of external relations giving third countries various degrees of access to their management boards, secondary bodies and/or operational cooperation. These venues constitute hitherto under-explored opportunities for third country influence on EU laws and policies. Based on an original dataset, this article maps the widening scope and depth of third country de jure access to 26 EU agencies over time and provides first explanations for the variation across agencies and countries. We find that agency autonomy and international mandate as well as third country democracy, regulatory capacity, and wealth are positively correlated with access. Whilst the de jure provisions examined in this article capture the formal institutional scope for third country influence, they underline the potential for more detailed case studies on de facto third country influence and its determinants.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1563-1586 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of Common Market Studies |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 5 Feb 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Special Issue: European integration outside‐in: Third country influence on EU law and policy‐making.Funding Information:
Research funding by the Horizon 2020 Project ‘EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability’ (EU‐IDEA) and Swiss National Science Foundation SNF Project ‘Condominio Europe? Patterns, dynamics and limits of differentiated integration in the wider European administrative space’ (Grant Number 204548) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Matis Poussardin, Sarah Paulina Falcucci, Signe Moe and Benjamin Bertrand for excellent research assistance and Thibaud Deruelle for constructive comments on a previous version.
Funding Information:
Research funding by the Horizon 2020 Project ‘EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability’ (EU-IDEA) and Swiss National Science Foundation SNF Project ‘Condominio Europe? Patterns, dynamics and limits of differentiated integration in the wider European administrative space’ (Grant Number 204548) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Matis Poussardin, Sarah Paulina Falcucci, Signe Moe and Benjamin Bertrand for excellent research assistance and Thibaud Deruelle for constructive comments on a previous version.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies published by University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Funding
Research funding by the Horizon 2020 Project ‘EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability’ (EU‐IDEA) and Swiss National Science Foundation SNF Project ‘Condominio Europe? Patterns, dynamics and limits of differentiated integration in the wider European administrative space’ (Grant Number 204548) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Matis Poussardin, Sarah Paulina Falcucci, Signe Moe and Benjamin Bertrand for excellent research assistance and Thibaud Deruelle for constructive comments on a previous version. Research funding by the Horizon 2020 Project ‘EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability’ (EU-IDEA) and Swiss National Science Foundation SNF Project ‘Condominio Europe? Patterns, dynamics and limits of differentiated integration in the wider European administrative space’ (Grant Number 204548) is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Matis Poussardin, Sarah Paulina Falcucci, Signe Moe and Benjamin Bertrand for excellent research assistance and Thibaud Deruelle for constructive comments on a previous version.
Keywords
- decentralised agencies
- European Union
- external differentiated integration
- influence
- third countries