their public administrations with those of EU Member States. Originating from SIGMA’s work on public administration reform …This paper attempts to identify the standards to which EU candidate countries are expected to conform in order to align … describes an important part of the basis of the SIGMA methodology for assessing candidate countries’ public administration …

agriculture. Agriculture, Trade and the Environment discusses quantitative methods for the assessment of agriculture-environment … Austria, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Greece and Estonia. The authors then go on to look at future developments in an enlarged EU … context. They conclude that efficient policies for environmental management in the EU need to be tailored to fit local …

the comparison of Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs) and their administrative/judicial enforcement in 14 EU member states … and the EU institutions. …

negotiators. Chapters have been grouped around the three main topics which the seminar addressed: (1) managing EU affairs; (2 … involved in becoming an EU Member State, and on their efforts in administrative reform, contributed to the seminar’s success …. SIGMA wishes to thank Nelli Sakellariadou from the Greek Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and …

administration is difficult to assess due to recent political upheaval. When this report was prepared in 1996, Albania, Estonia and … European countries: Albania, Estonia, Hungary and Poland. The report is based on information from 1996. Since then significant … (certain provisions came into force 30 days after the Act’s promulgation); and in Albania the current situation in the …