•What countries are part of the E.U?
•What do you know about European Union?
•What does the E.U. do?
•How is the E.U organized?
EU INSTITUTIONS
EUROPEAN UNION
INSTITUTIONS
The EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT represents the
EU’s citizens and is directly
elected by them
The COUNCIL OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION represents
the individual member states
The EUROPEAN COMMISSION
seeks to uphold the interests
of the Union as a whole.
To use in
Commission
documents
dealing
with Community
policy
To use for
Commission
documents of a
purely
internal nature
These three institutions produce the policies and laws that
apply throughout the EU.
EUROPEAN UNION
INSTITUTIONS
COURT OF
JUSTICE
COURT OF
AUDITORS
COMMITTEE
OF THE
REGIONS
GENERAL RESOURCES
 http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutionsbodies/index_en.htm
 http://www.european-studies.org/eu.htm
 http://europa.eu/abc/12lessons/index_en.htm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/euro
pe/2001/inside_europe/eu_institutions/default.stm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/euro
pe/2001/inside_europe/milestones/
GROUP 1
Answer the questions:
 Where is the
Parliament based?
 What does the
Parliament do?
 How is the
Parliament’s work
organized?
 http://europa.eu/a
bouteu/institutionsbodies/europeanparliament/index_e
n.htm
 http://www.apeeurope.eu/
GROUP 2
Answer the questions:
 What does the
Council do?
 Which are the ten
Council
configurations?
 How is the
Council’s work
organized?
Council of the
European
Union:
http://ue.eu.int/cou
ncil?lang=en
European
Convention
http://europeanconvention.eu.int/o
rganisation.asp?lan
g=EN
GROUP 3
Answer the questions
 What does the
Commission do?
 How is the
Commission’s work
organized?
 Explain its composition
 Explain its
departments or
policies
 European
Commission:
http://europa.eu/abou
t-eu/institutionsbodies/europeancommission/index_en.
htm
 http://ec.europa.eu/ab
out/ds_en.htm
 http://ec.europa.eu/po
licies/index_en.htm
GROUP 4
Answer the questions:
 What is the Court of
Justice?
 What type of cases are
there?
 Explain why it is a
multilingual institution.
 What is the General
Court?
 What is the European
Union Civil Tribunal?
 http://europa.eu/abou
t-eu/institutionsbodies/courtjustice/index_en.htm
 http://curia.europa.eu
/jcms/jcms/Jo2_6999/
 http://curia.europa.eu
/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7033/
 http://curia.europa.eu
/jcms/jcms/T5_5230/
GROUP 5
Answer the questions
 What is the Court
of Auditors?
 What is its most
important job?
 What is the mission
of the Anti-Fraud
Office?
 http://europa.eu/a
bouteu/institutionsbodies/courtauditors/index_en.
htm
 http://eca.europa.
eu/portal/page/por
tal/Organisation
SUMMARY
 http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/
key_stage_3/areas_of_learning/learni
ng_for_life_and_work/eu4u/session1/
ResourceSheets1_12.pdf
GAMES
 http://europa.eu/europago/explore/in
it.jsp?language=en
 http://europa.eu/europago/games/m
emory/memory.jsp?language=en