TAIEX Local Administration Facility
workshop on Good Governance at a
Local Level
ETT
56551
organised in co-operation with the Committee of the Regions
Venue : Brussels, 25-27 June 2014
25/6 Treves Street 74, Room TREV 7701
26/6 Belliard Street 99, Room JDE 53.
27/6 Treves Street 74, Room TREV 7701
For more information on TAIEX assistance and to download presentations of
this event, please go to : http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex.
²KS=Kosovo*; this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the
ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
³former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Provisional code that does not prejudge in any way the definitive
nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place
under the auspices of the United Nations.
Aim of the meeting :
The Local Administration Facility (LAF) is an assistance programme for the benefit of local and
municipal authorities of the beneficiary countries. The Local Administration Facility (LAF)
supports workshops for both elected and permanent officials of local and regional
authorities. The target audience of 30-35 participants will consist of elected representatives
and senior administrative staff from municipalities (3 to 5 participants per beneficiary
Next to general information about the functioning and decision-making of the EU, the aim of
the study tour is to improve the knowledge of participants in the field of better management
and governance at a local level. The institution building at a local level is capital in order to
have a better public administration in the beneficiary countries
Beneficiary :
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo², Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey,
the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia³
²KS=Kosovo*; this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the
ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
³former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Provisional code that does not prejudge in any way the definitive
nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place
under the auspices of the United Nations.
Day 1 : Wednesday 25 June 2014
Chair : -
09:00
Arrival of participants
09:30
10:45
Welcome note: Mr Jean Christophe Garcia-Baquero Lavezzi. Institution Building
Unit. DG Enlargement. European Commission
Round of Table/ice breaking: brief verbal presentation, max. 2 minutes per
participant (self-introduction by participants.
Current situation and challenges in their municipality, region and country)
Coffee Break
11:15
The EU institutions and decision-making process.
12:15
Lunch Break
14:00
Public Administration Reform in the Western Balkans and Turkey. DG Enlargement.
European Commission.
Q&A
09:45
14:30
15:30
Decentralisation at a crossroads. Territorial Reforms in Europe in times of crisis – the
findings of the CEMR report.
Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR).
Q&A
15:45
Coffee Break
16:00
Impact of the economic crisis: European Challenges, trends and prospects for the
local finance reform.
14:45
16:45
Council of Europe.
Q&A
Day 2 : Thursday 26 June 2014
Chair : -
09:00 Public procurement at a local level .
Mr. Grzegorz Orawiec. Marshall Office of Swietokrzyskie Region. Poland.
10:00 Q&A
10:15 . Anticorruption at a local level.
Ms Laura Stefan. Rule of Law and Anticorruption Coordinator. Expert Forum (EFOR).
Romania.
11:15 Q&A
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Fiscal Decentralisation at a local level.
Bjorn Sundstrom. Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.
13:00 Q&A
13:15 Lunch
14:30 Municipal Trading (provision of services in the market by municipalities). Ms Nuria
Magaldi. Lecturer in Administrative Law. University of Cordoba. Spain.
15:15 Q&A
15:30 Quality of public services at local level.
Mr Chris Varst. Quality institute Dutch Municipalities.
16:15 Q&A
16:30 Coffee Break
16:45 Resolution of conflicts between citizens and local administration. Mr Antonio Bueno
Armijo. Lecturer in European Law and Spanish Administrative Law. University of
Cordoba. Spain.
17:30 Q&A
Day 3 : Friday 27 June 2014
Chair : -
09:00
09:45
Work and functioning of the Committee of the Regions .
Mr. Klaus Hullmann. Unit for Events, Fora and Open Days. Committee of the
Regions.
Q&A
10:30
The CoR work in the field of Multilevel Governance. Member of the Committee of
the Regions. Commission for the Citizenship, Governance, Institutional External
Affairs.
Q&A
10:45
Coffee break
11:00
Cooperation between municipalities.
10:00
Mr Ruurd Paalstra. Policy Officer. Association of Netherlands Municipalities.
11:45
Q&A
12:00
12:45
European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation.
Mr. Alfonso Alcolea. Subsidiarity and Networks, Committee of the Regions.
Q&A
13:00
End of conference
This meeting is being organised by the
Technical Assistance Information Exchange Instrument
of the European Commission
L-15 04/90 , B - 1049 Brussels
Telephone: +32-2-296 73 07 , Fax: +32-2-296 76 94
Web site http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/taiex