ABSTRACT
Under the Treaty of Rome 1957, which established the EU, four principal institutions were listed, they are:
The Commission is the permanent officials of the EU, similar to the UK Civil Service, based in Brussels. It consists of 20 Commissioners, each a representative of a Member State (with the five major EU Member States having two rather than one). Sir Leon Brittan and Neil Kinnock are the UK Commissioners at present. Each Commissioner takes charge over an area of policy and the directorate general, department, responsible. Directorate generals range from external affairs, economic affairs, internal market, social affairs, agriculture, transport, fisheries to regional policy, energy, science, budgets and development. The role of the Commission is to draft legislation and enforce it, where they hold the powers to do so.
