Legal base and key documents

Executive Agencies are established by the European Commission in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 with the purpose of delegating certain tasks relating to the management of Union programmes, including budget implementation. This enables the Commission to focus on its core activities and to dispose of sufficient technical expertise for the management of such programmes in a specialised Agency.

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) was established on 16 February 2021 to allow for all necessary administrative preparations before its operational kick off on 1 April 2021.

The organisational chart can be found on the main European Commission website.

• Single Establishment Act - Executive agencies 2021-2027;
• HaDEA - Act of delegation, annex and amending decision;
• Communication to the Commission on the delegation of the management of the 2021-2027 programmes to Executive Agencies.

Document from the previous years.