Legal Service

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directorate-general of the European Commission legal service

The Legal Service is the European Commission’s in-house legal advisory and litigation body, responsible for ensuring the legality and consistency of the institution’s actions and representing it before EU and international courts.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Legal Service canonical	1
Legal Service of the Council	1

Statements (74)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	directorate-general of the European Commission ⓘ legal service ⓘ
appliesToJurisdiction	European Union ⓘ
country	European Union ⓘ
employer	European Commission ⓘ
hasPart	Directorate A – Institutional & Administrative Law ⓘ Directorate-General for Competition ⓘ surface form: Directorate B – Competition & State Aid Directorate C – External Relations ⓘ Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs ⓘ surface form: Directorate D – Internal Market Directorate E – Trade ⓘ Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion ⓘ surface form: Directorate F – Employment & Social Policies Directorate G – Environment & Energy ⓘ Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs ⓘ surface form: Directorate H – Economic & Financial Affairs Directorate I – Agriculture & Fisheries ⓘ Directorate J – Internal Policies ⓘ Directorate C – External Relations ⓘ surface form: Directorate K – External Policies Directorate L – Resources ⓘ Directorate M – Transparency ⓘ Directorate N – Institutional Affairs ⓘ Directorate O – Litigation ⓘ Directorate P – Legal Advice ⓘ Directorate Q – International Law ⓘ Directorate R – Civil Service Law ⓘ Directorate J – Internal Policies ⓘ surface form: Directorate S – Internal Market & Competition Directorate Y – External Relations & Trade ⓘ surface form: Directorate T – External Relations & Trade Directorate U – Institutional & Budgetary Law ⓘ Directorate V – External Relations & Development ⓘ Directorate W – Internal Market & Environment ⓘ Directorate-General for Competition ⓘ surface form: Directorate X – Competition & State Aid Directorate Y – External Relations & Trade ⓘ Directorate Z – Institutional & Budgetary Law ⓘ
hasResponsibilityFor	advising on access to documents and transparency law ⓘ advising on budgetary law ⓘ advising on competition law ⓘ advising on data protection law within the Commission ⓘ advising on external relations law ⓘ advising on institutional law of the European Union ⓘ advising on institutional reforms of the European Union ⓘ advising on internal market law ⓘ advising on international agreements of the European Union ⓘ advising on staff regulations of officials of the European Union ⓘ advising on trade law ⓘ defending the Commission’s interests in arbitration proceedings ⓘ drafting and reviewing legislative proposals ⓘ ensuring coherence of the Commission’s legal positions across policy areas ⓘ ensuring compliance of Commission acts with EU Treaties ⓘ ensuring compliance of Commission acts with fundamental rights ⓘ ensuring compliance of Commission acts with general principles of EU law ⓘ ensuring compliance of Commission acts with secondary EU legislation ⓘ ensuring consistency of European Commission legal positions ⓘ ensuring legality of European Commission acts ⓘ participating in actions for failure to act ⓘ participating in annulment actions ⓘ participating in damages actions against the European Union ⓘ participating in infringement proceedings against Member States ⓘ participating in interinstitutional negotiations on legal matters ⓘ participating in preliminary ruling procedures ⓘ providing legal advice to European Commission directorates-general ⓘ providing legal clearance for Commission decisions ⓘ providing legal opinions to the College of Commissioners ⓘ representing the European Commission before international courts and tribunals ⓘ representing the European Commission before the Civil Service Tribunal of the European Union ⓘ representing the European Commission before the Court of Justice of the European Union ⓘ representing the European Commission before the General Court of the European Union ⓘ supporting the Commission in legislative drafting quality ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Belgium ⓘ Brussels, Belgium ⓘ surface form: Brussels
jurisdiction	European Union legal order ⓘ surface form: European Union law
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	Brussels-Capital Region ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ
parentOrganization	European Commission Secretariat-General structure ⓘ surface form: European Commission Secretariat-General
partOf	European Commission ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

European Commission → hasPart → Legal Service ⓘ

General Secretariat of the Council → hasDepartment → Legal Service ⓘ

this entity surface form: Legal Service of the Council