The EC is the executive body of the European Union. They don't make the rules, they just execute them. It's the basic concept of separation of powers.
unfortunatly this is not really true. only the EC has the power to draft new regulations. neither the the council of ministers nor the parliament has this power.
the 2 later can change the drafts but for a large part the EC determines what happens and what does not happen in europe. this is just one of the major democratic deficiencies in the EU. especially since the EC is so far detached from democracy in the first place.. and not politically accountable (no one knows how it came into power so the people in europe do not know whom to punish for the bad decessions of the EC).
greetings from vienna,
mond.