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The European Chemicals Agency, based in Finland, one of many EU agencies. (Photo: European Chemicals Agency)

EU agencies 'add value' but there is no 'master plan'

The European Union has some 44 agencies entities, but there is no “master plan” of what policy area gets an agency and when or if or how they can be abolished, said the future chairman of the EU Agencies Network this week.

“There was never a master plan to say: okay this is our policy field, we think there and there we could need an agency and there it's better to do it in Brussels or the member states,” Bernhard Url told EUobserver.

Url, who heads the European Food Safety Authori...

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