1. The Commission is the EC's executive arm of civil servants, permanently based in Brussels.  Jacques Delors is president of the supreme panel of seventeen commissioners (France, Germany, Britain, Italy, and Spain each have two).  The commissioners have their own specific policy fields and they propose legislation at the regular meetings of the Council of Ministers, where the ministers vary according to which subject is being discussed.  The European Parliament has, thus far, a mainly advisory role.  Separately, each EC member maintains its own permanent team of diplomats and civil servants in Brussels to lobby the Commission and take part in detailed negotiations.  Britain's is called "UKrep."

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