• The European Commission
  European Commission
  The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. The body is responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the Union's treaties and the general day-to-day running of the Union....
  
  : Commission Directorates-General are each headed by a European Commissioner
  European Commissioner
  A European Commissioner is a member of the 27-member European Commission. Each Member within the college holds a specific portfolio and are led by the President of the European Commission...
  
  ;
• The European Patent Office
  European Patent Organisation
  The European Patent Organisation is a public international organisation created in 1977 by its contracting states to grant patents in Europe under the European Patent Convention of 1973...
  
  : EPO Directorates-General;
• The Secretariat of the European Parliament
  Secretariat of the European Parliament
  The secretariat of the European Parliament is the administrative body of the European Parliament headed by a Secretary-General. It is based in the Kirchberg district of Luxembourg and around the Brussels-Luxembourg Station in Brussels and employs 4000 officials.-Secretary-General:The Secretary...
  
  : Parliament Directorates-General.

See also

• European Civil Service
  European Civil Service
  The European Civil Service is the civil service serving the institutions of the European Union, of which the largest employer is the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union...
  
  
• Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
• Permanent Secretary
  Permanent Secretary
  The Permanent secretary, in most departments officially titled the permanent under-secretary of state , is the most senior civil servant of a British Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis...