For example, with accession safely accomplished, the Slovene parliament voted to close down an EU-inspired anticorruption commission, which had to be saved by the country's constitutional court.
The EU Commission proposal - yet to be adopted by EU leaders - would open up EU markets for Burmese goods.
Some MEPs - such as Dutch eurosceptic Daniel van der Stoep - claimed that the Commission would only approve "EU-friendly" initiatives.
The document - Towards an EU Criminal Policy - was published by the European Commission in September 2011.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (on Thursday at 9.30am) investigates the pros and cons with witnesses from the Environment Agency, the EU Commission Environment Directorate-General, and Energy Minister Greg Barker.
The committee would be able to register an initiative on the Commission website, before collecting signatures from EU citizens - provided it passes an initial admissability check by Commission officials.
The report, written by Romanian centre-right MEP Sebastian Bodu, urges the European Commission to come up with an EU-wide code of conduct to be followed by major European companies.
The European Commission - the EU's executive arm - argues that Chinese firms are unfairly undercutting rivals.
The Commission - the EU's executive arm - drafts laws and acts as guardian of the treaties.
This month the Commission - the EU's executive arm - has released a blueprint for a banking union.
He blamed the EU Commission for delaying follow-up information Germany requested.
He accused Mr Sarkozy of having reduced the role of the European Commission - the EU's executive arm - to that of a "secretariat" for the presidents and prime ministers who form the European Council.
In a message to Mr Tadic, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission - the EU's executive arm - said the result was "a victory for democracy in Serbia and for the European values we share".
Yet a spokesman for the European Commission - the EU's executive branch - told BBC Sport earlier this month that the freedom of movement legislation will not be altered and that no exceptions are to be granted.
European Commission pr oposes EU-Brazil strategic partnership.
The EU's global catch of sharks ranks second only to Indonesia, yet the European Commission has committed itself - under the EU Action Plan for the Conservation and Management of Sharks - to adopt the necessary measures to conserve shark species and to minimise waste and discards from shark catches.
EURid is the not-for-profit organisation that operates the .eu top-level domain, following the appointment by the European Commission.
Time will only tell whether he will continue to do that inside the EU or will leave the crisis-ridden commission for good.
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The leaders of France and Germany have urged the European Commission to impose an EU-wide ban on speculative trading known as naked short-selling.
One of the chief concerns of the EU commission and Germany are state-owned Russian corporations, said Denis Maslov, an analyst at the Eurasia Group.
Seeing what was happening in France and Italy, Denmark also closed its internal borders - an act which the EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has declared may be a violation of European law.
The ministers from the 15-member EU - who are trying to agree their common immigration policy - asked the European Commission to come up with concrete proposals for financing both voluntary and forced repatriation.
The way to engage voters more fully is for national politicians as well as European candidates to emphasise the important role the European Parliament plays in the EU - not least by holding the unelected European Commission to account.
Initial spending plans and priorities for the EU in 2014-2020 were published by the European Commission in June.
The encroachment of the state-financed funds has also concerned the EU commission.
Mr Vaughan - a member of the European parliament's budget committee - said that efforts to lobby the EU Commission and UK government had been "largely successful".
In a review of global discarding, the UN noted that the north-east Atlantic had the highest discard level in the world, estimated at 1.3 million tonnes - the majority attributed to the EU. The Commission estimates that 23% of all fish caught by EU vessels are discarded.
Recently, the European Commission told the European Parliament it wants EU-wide exchange of all types of income data as part of the fight against tax evasion.
Under EU law, the annual budget - drafted by the European Commission - must be agreed to both by the Parliament and the Council of Ministers, which represents national governments.
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