The Commissioners must be completely independent in the performance of their duties, and neither seek nor take instructions from any government or from any other body. Each Member State undertakes not to seek to influence the members of the Commission in the performance of their tasks. Much of the work of the Commission is carried out, and some administrative decisions are taken in the name of the Co9mmission, by the Commmisssion's services, that is, by the officials employed by the Commission. In practice, each of the larger member sttes nominate two Commissioner and the remainder one each. In the United Kingdom, the convention is that its nominees include one politician,or person with political experience, from the ruling majhoirity party and the other from the opposition.
Similar conventions apply in some of the other large member states.
From January 1995 appointment to the Commission is for a five year term, and its member are subject as a body to the approval of the Parliament. Introduce the measures required to inititate that action. Issue the regulations needed to implement the laws and take the requisite implementig decisions. Ensure that the Treaty and the laws of the Union are applied. In order to ease the workload of the Court of Justice the Single European Act amended the founding treaties so as to empower the Council, upon a request from the Court of Justice to attach to it a court with first instance jurisdiction in certain forms of action.