•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 Commissiondocuments dealingwith Community policy To use for Commissiondocuments of a purelyinternal nature

These three institutions produce the policies and laws that apply throughout the EU.

EUROPEAN UNIONINSTITUTIONS

COURT OF JUSTICE

COURT OF AUDITORS

COMMITTEE OF THE

REGIONS

GENERAL RESOURCES http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/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/europ

e/2001/inside_europe/eu_institutions/default.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/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/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-parliament/index_en.htm

http://www.ape-europe.eu/

GROUP 2Answer 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/council?lang=en

European Conventionhttp://european-convention.eu.int/organisation.asp?lang=EN

GROUP 3Answer 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/about-eu/institutions-bodies/european-commission/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/about/ds_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/policies/index_en.htm

GROUP 4Answer 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/about-eu/institutions-bodies/court-justice/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/about-eu/institutions-bodies/court-auditors/index_en.htm

http://eca.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/Organisation

SUMMARY

http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/key_stage_3/areas_of_learning/learning_for_life_and_work/eu4u/session1/ResourceSheets1_12.pdf

GAMES

http://europa.eu/europago/explore/init.jsp?language=en

http://europa.eu/europago/games/memory/memory.jsp?language=en