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 …

Countries that are candidates for European Union (EU) accession face the complex and urgent task of building … audience includes all those involved in Institution Building within candidate countries, EU Member States, the European …

Western market economy and the body of EU legislation, the acquis communautaire. As the harmonisation of the national legal … framework to EU standards is one of the yardsticks for EU accession, most candidate countries have drafted and adopted new … other transition countries to develop an interest in impact assessment. EU Member States introduced impact assessment for …

obligations of EU membership. SIGMA examines this in two publications that chronicle the experiences of seven EU Member States …, including its three newest adherents, in integrating EU budgetary, financial control and audit procedures and requirements with … adaptation and development of the government administration in the seven countries. The two publications also provide insight …

. The responses of EU Member States’ Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) to the Commission’s external audit procedures and …

This paper analyses the negotiations which will take place with the six Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia …