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Each member state of the European Union has the right to a single commissioner (before the Barroso I Commission in November 2004, the five largest states—France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom—were granted two) and appoints them in consultation with the president.
The Directorates-General of the European Commission are divided into four groups: Policy DGs, External relations DGs, General Service DGs and Internal Service DGs. Internally, the DGs are referred to by their abbreviations , provided below.
The role of a cabinet is to give political guidance to its Commissioner. Technical policy preparation is handled by the European Civil Service. [1] The term is not to be confused with the European Commission's top decision making-body known in EU-lexicon, as the "College of Commissioners" (referred to in most political systems as a cabinet).
Directorate-General for Digital Services; Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology; Internal Audit Service (European Commission) Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union; Internal Services in the European Commission; Directorate-General for International Partnerships
The European Commission organized a video conference of world leaders on 4 May 2020 to raise funds for COVID-19 vaccine development. US$8 billion was raised. [98] The European Commission issued a new multi-year data plan in February 2020 pushing the digitalization of all aspects of EU society for the benefit of civic and economic growth.
The Directorate-General for this portfolio is shared with the Commissioner for Transport as the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport. The EU is an active supporter of the Kyoto Protocol, which it signed alongside its member-states. In March 2007 the Union committed itself to cut CO 2 emissions by 20 percent by 2020.
The secretary-general of the European Commission is the senior civil servant of the European Commission. The secretary-general, who is responsible to the president of the European Commission, is in charge of the various Directorates-General, headed by directors-general. Their staff form the Secretariat-General of the European Commission.
The Berlaymont Building in Brussels, headquarters of the Secretariat-General of the European Commission. The Secretariat-General (SG) is a service department of the European Commission. The SG is based in the Berlaymont in Brussels . The SG supports the whole of the Commission, and in particular the 27 Commissioners.