4-710: The Directorate-General for Communication ( DG COMM ) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission . The mission of the DG Communication is: The DG Communication is based in Brussels . This article about the European Union is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Directorate-General Within the European Union (EU), Directorates-General are departments with specific zones of responsibility. Within
8-581: The European Commission specifically, Directorates-General are the equivalent of national-level ministries . Most are headed by a European Commissioner , responsible for the general direction of the Directorate-General, and in charge of (politically responsible for) the corresponding policy area; and a director-general, responsible for the management of day-to-day affairs, who reports to the European Commissioner. Nearly all of
12-668: The European Commission are divided into four groups: Policy DGs, External relations DGs, General Service DGs and Internal Service DGs. Internally, the DGs are referred to by their abbreviations , provided below. In addition to its Legal Service , the Secretariat of the European Parliament is composed of several Directorates-General, each of which has an official abbreviation. The General Secretariat of
16-722: The top-level organisational divisions of the Secretariat of the European Parliament and the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union are also termed Directorates-General. The European Patent Office (part of the European Patent Organisation , separate from the EU) also has Directorates-General , which are administrative groupings of departments. The Directorates-General of
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