Talk:Agencies of the European Union

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European System of Financial Supervision[edit]

I edited the article to include the new financial supervision authorities: the EBA, ESMA, EIOPA end the ESRB. I think they can be considered agencies since they are independent supervisory bodies. --Ale86tv (talk) 12:54, 30 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It does not apply to ESRB. Micga (talk) 23:41, 6 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Frontex[edit]

EU-website states that Frontex is in fact Third Pillar Agency [1], [2]. I've reverted the change. Maartenvdbent 23:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

error of EU-website, see: [3]. Maartenvdbent 00:07, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

But why is it there and not in the third pillar? Has somebody INformation on that? It sound rather weird to me, since it is clearly about police and judicial cooperation very much like Europol is. Derwaechter 07:58, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tasks assigned to Frontex were originally in scope of the third pillar but in the Amsterdam Treaty part of this pillar (including external border controls, asylum and immigration) was moved to the first pillar โ€“ it's now in title IV of the Rome Treaty. --Filemon 10:57, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Also the EU website now states it correctlyย :). Maartenvdbent 12:26, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Maartenvdbent! You would not have any idea where I can find the old version of the EU Websites that stated it incorrectly? Derwaechter 18:07, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

FVO[edit]

Is the European Food and Veterinary Office under a a diff. name? Did it change or has it just been created? It exists and has a website (/fvo) but I though we had them all on this list. - J Logan t: 19:40, 28 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FVO is not an agency โ€”Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.35.143 (talk) 15:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Color-coded list[edit]

While it's not a bad idea to color-code items on this list, it's not a good idea to rely only on the color-coding since this may not be accessible to color-blind users or those relying on screen-reading software. So the text should be written in full as well as the color-coded key. Purgatorio 16:43, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Alinor (talk) 06:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List: add country[edit]

Perhaps in the list, there should be a column for the country in which the agency is based. โ€“ Kaihsu (talk) 18:49, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Added. โ€“ Kaihsu (talk) 18:54, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Map[edit]

The map is wrong, it's missing Hungary. (It hosts the EIT) โ€” Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.168.63.65 (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Vigo symbol[edit]

Hi, everyone. I'm not very experienced with editing on Wikipedia, so I wanted to make a suggestion in case someone can help. The list of decentralised agencies lists an agency in Vigo without a coat of arms / symbol for Vigo. It should be this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo#/media/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Vigo.svg

Thanks! โ€”ย Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.18.232.205 (talk) 19:53, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Crowded map[edit]

The map of agency locations has become very crowded with labels often overlapping each other. Any ideas for improvement? Liam McM 16:48, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. We could do several small improvements to alleviate this a bit:
  • Pick a map that is 'zoomed in' on a smaller part, cutting away everything east of Cyprus and north of Finland and adjusting zoom level accordingly.
  • Making the map bigger. The resolution of the base map allows for this, but I don't know if this requires manual alignment of all the agencies. [EDIT: It doesn't require realignment, but the problem persists even at width > 1600.]
  • Manually moving labels away from each other and placing arrows or similar.
--Gaxtrope (talk) 10:31, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I do dislike the current map as well. First, it does not make sense to use a geographic relief map in, since this is a political and not a geographical topic. Second, I agree with Gaxtropic that the map is unnecessary large because it includes a lot of land of non-EU members such as Russia and Turkey. From the north side, it can be cropped from around Helsinki. And even at this size, it still includes overlapping text. It's probably better to only use numbers and a list beneath the map. I would suggest using File:Europe blank map.png. PhotographyEdits (talk) 18:12, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 25 September 2022[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) โ€“ robertsky (talk) 20:09, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Agencies, decentralised independent bodies, corporate bodies and joint undertakings of the European Union and the Euratom โ†’ Agencies of the European Union โ€“ Use the WP:COMMONNAME PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:13, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support. The current title is far too long. JIP | Talk 00:06, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Far too long. (Got a bit of a shock when I came here from sv:Europeiska unionens byrรฅer where it is short.) Ponken (talk) 05:05, 26 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As is the Finnish article fi:Euroopan unionin erillisvirastot. JIP | Talk 00:46, 27 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per conciseness. Note that this article was recently move here from the proposed title without any prior discussion, so I believe that this should be reverted pending consensus for a rename. [4] TDL (talk) 01:38, 2 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Erupean Agencies hello there raylini from Vanuatu is one of those have membership information, good ogo airport 103.75.21.254 (talk) 21:03, 24 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

mapframeย ?[edit]

Hello, wouldn't it be possible to change the way the map is displayed on mobile/smaller screenย ? It's probably doable with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Mapframe Vincent-vst๐Ÿš€ (talk) 05:31, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Map removed[edit]

Screenshot demonstrating the readability issues of the oversized map on a small screen

As Vincent-vst pointed out above, the unusually oversized map next to the lead section of the article is causing serious readability issues. See the screenshot for illustration. We are hardcoding the map to be 1000 pixels, and that size can easily overwhelm smaller screens. It is also likely to be a violation of MOS:ACCESS. Additionally, even at this size, we can't prevent the text on the map from overlapping with each other (you can see some of this happening in the bottom of the screenshot), making the map itself doubly unreadable as well.

The negative impact these issues have on the readability of the article outweigh any benefit gained from including the map. For this reason, I am removing the map from the article. The map merely summarizes the same location information that you can find the tables found in the text of the article itself, so we aren't losing information. I'm not opposed to reinserting it at a later date if we can find some kind of alternative solution to make it more accessibleโ€”Vincent-vst suggested looking into Module:Mapframe above. Mz7 (talk) 07:35, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edit conflicted with I dream of horses on the actual removal. [5] Mz7 (talk) 07:37, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]