Table I

The Growing Density of the Union as a System of Governance

	1960	1975	1990	1994
Council Decisions	10	575	618	468
Commission Decisions	6	838	1367	2461
Council Compositions	(*) 7	12	22	21
Council Working Groups	10	91	224	263
Council Sessions	44	67	138	98
Coreper + Working Groups sessions	602	2215	2128	2789
Comitology number		93	297	409
A Grade Civil Servants in the Commission	521	2087	3642	4682

Source: Forward Studies Unit, Tables for Integration Indicators, August 1996.

(*) figure from 1967

Table II

The Union’s Policies for Economic Management

Framework of Economic Management	The Union’s Policies for Economic Management
Macroeconomic Policy	Multilateral Surveillance in EMS
Distributional Settlements	CAP Structural Funds
Competitiveness and Structural Adjustment	Internal Market Competition and Merger Policy TENs/Transport/Energy Policy Research and Development Environment Labour Market Policies

Source: O Donnell (1995) p.2

©1997 by Laffan
arranged by MN, 22.10.1997