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 …

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 …