The academic and institutional debates on EU Agencies’ Boards of Appeal have been often trapped in a sectorial-based approach. Their case-law is very well known within the professional community to which they belong, yet often not outside it. Moreover, there is little institutional awareness of their role and the same EU institutions still manage them for the needs of the policy field in which each Board operate.

However, their growing quantitative and qualitative relevance, together with the current age of reforms in which the EU Judiciary is living in, calls for a new legal and political thinking.

To this end, the Jean Monnet Module on EU Specialized Judicial Protection,  coordinated by Prof. Jacopo Alberti of the University of Ferrara, has organised a Conference to assess how these bodies are evolving in terms of powers and functions and how the EU system of judicial protection could (or should?) evolve to fully exploit these bodies’ potential while maximising the protection of individuals’ rights.

In particular, the first panel will discuss innovative academic studies, based on the Common Database on EU Agencies’ Boards of Appeal, assessing the impact of the Boards’ decisions over settled principles of EU Procedural Law. Panel 2 will host a Roundtable with the Presidents of all Boards to discuss how and whether these bodies can perform a full scrutiny over their Agencies’ decisions, in particular after Aquind. Panel 3 will draw the conclusions with a Roundtable composed by high-level members of the EU institutions discussing the Boards’ relations with the EU Courts, in light of the forthcoming reform of CJEU Statute.

The full programme is available by clicking on this link.

The event will take place only in person. To participate,  please send an email to samuele.barbieri@unife.it.