EU agencies play an important role in shaping European policies. This is also reflected in the academic discourse, which in recent years has scrutinised a wide variety of aspects of EU agencies - in different ways. This article assesses the current, emerging state of political science research on EU agencies. It is a burgeoning field addressing questions of the emergence, role and function of European agencies as well as their integration into existing institutional structures: What are EU agencies; since when and why have they existed; how are they structured; how do they finance themselves; how do they relate to other EU institutions and national authorities? This article offers a descriptive overview of each of these topics to assess more exhaustively the current state of research and apparent research gaps. Eventual- ly, the analysis shows that existing research does not always correspond to the actual policy-making influence of respective EU agencies.
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