Dear Colleagues, I invite paper proposals for the panel EU-agencies: Autonomy and accountability in a multi-level system at the ECPR general conference (31 August - 3 September 2021, University of Innsbruck). If you are interested in presenting a paper please send an abstract of max. 200 words to eva.ruffing@uni-osnabrueck.de (Deadline: 4 February). Section: The politics of regulatory governance Panel chair: Eva Ruffing Panel description: The questions of autonomy and accountability are long standing research topics in the EU agency literature. However, EU agencies – in particular the ones with the most far reaching competences – are often not only embedded in multiple actor constellations at the EU level but are in addition “networked agencies” (Levi-Faur 2011), resting upon dense networks of national regulatory agencies. This multi-level character of administrative decision-making is often neglected. The panel invites papers focusing on agencies’ autonomy and accountability from different angles to draw a more complete picture of how different constellations affect agencies in practice. We are looking forward to interesting submissions! Kind regards, Eva Ruffing Prof. Dr. Eva Ruffing Universität Osnabrück FG „Politisches System der BRD im Kontext europäischer Mehrebenenpolitik“ Seminarstraße 33 49074 Osnabrück Tel. 0541/969-6024