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Promoting Performance and Professionalism in the Public Service

1997

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 … administration is difficult to assess due to recent political upheaval. When this report was prepared in 1996, Albania, Estonia and …

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Administrative Procedures and the Supervision of Administration in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia and Albania

1997

SIGMA is publishing this report to make more widely available comparative information on administrative law and administrative supervision in central and eastern European countries, and to highlight certain relationships with developments in these areas in Western Europe. Although each country...

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Management Control in Modern Government Administration : Some Comparative Practices

1996

This publication focuses on the control mechanisms and procedures that need to be built into an organisation’s systems in order to provide reasonable assurance that top management’s objectives will be met, rather than on the design and application of management information systems, which, we...

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Sustainable Institutions for European Union Membership

1998

Countries that are candidates for European Union (EU) accession face the complex and urgent task of building administrative institutions so that they can fulfil the “Copenhagen criteria”. Such institutions must be able to implement the acquis communautaire within tight budget constraints and...

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Improving Policy Instruments through Impact Assessment

2001

Central and eastern European countries have been and still are adapting their legal framework to the requirements of a 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...

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Enlargement of the European Union : An Analysis of the Negotiations for Countries of the Western Balkans

2007

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

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Constitutions of Central and Eastern European Countries and the Baltic States

1995

In the Baltic States, the process of independence started after the elections in spring 1990 and was completed by August 1991. Fifty-one years after being forced to join the Soviet Union, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania each regained their independence and became once again part of the western...

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Effects of European Union Accession: Part I Budgeting and Financial Control

1997

Compliance with the European Union’s budgetary, financial control and audit requirements is one of the basic 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...

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Central Public Procurement Structures and Capacity in Member States of the European Union

2007

This study provides an analysis of the functions, structures and capacity of the central public procurement bodies of Member States. Twenty-two separate overviews of public procurement systems in the 22 participating Member States were produced on the basis of national responses to a detailed...

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Effects of European Union Accession: Part II External Audit

1997

Over the past decade, the European Commission, as the institution responsible for implementing the Community Budget, has taken an increasingly active interest in the effectiveness of the control measures applied by Member States to Community funds. Indeed, it is in the common interest of the...

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