POLITICAL SCIENCE

Are the Council of Ministers and the European Commission inter-dependent or competing institutions?

Are the Council of Ministers and the European Commission inter-dependent or competing institutions?

Diversity of European Union

The European Union (12 States in 1994) covers, in fact, five different systems:

• European Community (EC) (former European Economic Community-EEC-) which aims to integration of member countries on economic and social development, particularly through free movement of goods and services and especially in persons;

• The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) which aims to integrate policy industrial exploitation of coal mines and iron and steel industry;

• The European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) aimed at coordination of supply of nuclear materials and cooperation in research in the nuclear industry civil;

• The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) cooperation aimed at policy foreign and defense policy and

• Policy coordination in Justice and Home Affairs (JHA).

Based on the current scenario, the council members are said to be interdependent on each other rather then being competing institutions since it would defeat the purpose of forming an EU alliance.

EC Treaty and Article 82 of the 81 established EU competition law regime. Article 81 (1) prohibits anti-competitive agreements, which the community has a significant effect of trade, and Article 82 prohibits abuse of dominant market position. Article 81 prohibits anti-competitive agreement does not apply if the parties to the agreement can prove that the agreement has an array of pro-competitive benefits outweigh the restrictive effect. The Commission has adopted so-called block exemption regulations, a distributor of R and C license and other agreements set out the circumstances, these agreements generally pro-competitive benefits of the net treatment of the number of safe havens. Recently these laws and regulations block the release of amendments stressed the importance of economic analysis.

The Importance of Interdependence

One of the greatest challenges is the European Union (EU) is the great imbalance amidst the ability of management and integration of objectives of European Union and its Council of Members. Although this deficit management has been identified at times with limited powers and dimension of the European Commission the truth is that the viability of the management is conditional on close collaboration between multiple organizations located at different levels of government (Commission Europe 1994: 8; Milward, 1992: 3). The development of the EU depends on the ability of management inter-organizational interactions. Requires the establishment and consolidation of a relational tissue functional exists between the various levels of government and within each one of them. The final efficiency decision-making and implementation of EU policies depend heavily on the ability to interact and inter-and intra-governmental negotiation. However, the adaptation of the Administrations of Member States (MS) to the increasing internationalization and interdependence of problems and policies beyond the domestic sphere or is traditional diplomatic until now the Cinderella of the reform programs of the public sector. Improve national capacity management of EU negotiations is a necessary and inevitable step in European integration (Metcalfe, 1994: 271; Kliksberg, 1994: 189, ...