Civil servants aren’t usually elected (are they ever?), would you expect these guys to be? They do differ slightly to other civil servants in that they can propose legislation, rather than just writing up legislation proposed by elected officials, but the legislation has to be approved by one or both of the elected branches (depending on the type of legislation). The fact that these dumb proposals have never been voted into effect is decent evidence that the democratic process is working as it should at least. There’s probably a bit more tweaking required to increase the quality of legislation they’re producing, the Treaty of Lisbon has beefed up the checks and balances on their operations already though.
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