Commission Directorates-General and Services
The following is a list of the Directorates-General and Services of the European Commission: Secretariat-General of the Commission - Forward Studies Unit Inspectorate-General Legal Service Spokesman's Service Joint Interpreting and Conference Service Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) Translation Service Informatics Directorate Security Office Directorates-General: DG I External Relations: Commercial Policy and Relations with North America, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand DG IA External Relations: Europe and New Independent States, External Policy and Common Security DG IB External Relations: Southern Mediterranean, Middle and Near East, Latin America, South and South-East Asia and North-South Cooperation DG II Economic and Financial Affairs DG III Industry DG IV Competition DG V Employment, Industrial Relations and Social Affairs DG VI Agriculture DG VII Transport DG VIII Development DG IX Personnel and Administration DG X Audiovisual, Information, Communication and Culture DG XI Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection DG XII Science, Research and Development DG XIII Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research DG XIV Fisheries DG XV Internal Market and Financial Services DG XVI Regional Policy and Cohesion DG XVII Energy DG XVIII Credit and Investments DG XIX Budgets DG XX Financial Control DG XXI Customs Union and Indirect Taxation DG XXII Education, Training and Youth DG XXIII Enterprise Policy, Distributive Trades, Tourism and Cooperatives DG XXIV Consumer Policy Joint Research Centre (previously part of DG XII, soon to become a separate Directorate-General) European Community Humanitarian Office Euratom Supply Agency Office for Official Publications of the European Communities (EUR-OP) For the distribution of portfolios among the 20 Members of the European Commission, see RTD-News RCN 3742. The list contains the final distribution of portfolios among the Members, as formally agreed by the Commission at its meeting on 25 January 1995. It also describes the working groups chaired by the Commissioners in the areas of external relations, growth, competitiveness and employment, trans-European networks, cohesion, information society, and equal opportunities and human rights.