Background
Municipalities and regions across Europe will witness an important progress through the
Lisbon Treaty. It preserves most of the key points of the deceased Treaty establishing a
Constitution for Europe which strengthened the role of the regional and local levels in the
European arena. A more multi-level, inclusive Europe is perceivably favoured: better
involvement of local and regional expertise in the quest for a more cohesive Europe
together with a reinforced principle of subsidiarity and increasing role given to national
Parliaments.
This seminar will explain in a comparative way the actions undertaken by the sub-State
level to participate in the pre-legislative, legislative, transposition and implementation
phase of the EU policy-making cycle. Which multilevel interactions are in place in the
different MS in order to ensure proper compliance of EU Law? At what stages is this
involvement lacking and how can this deficit be tackled? Examples of concrete
Directives will be analysed in all its phases, in order to provide the participants with real
case studies illustrating the best practices performed in some Member States. Special
attention will be devoted to the Impact Assessment Guidelines 2009 from the European
Commission, the novelties brought about by the new Lisbon Treaty, as well as the latest
proposals of the CoR White Paper on Multilevel Governance.
Objectives
To facilitate the local and regional authorities with knowledge and practices to understand their future role in the law making cycle, from the pre-legislative phase to the final compliance and enforcement phase; performing a continued assessment of their performance.
The main objectives are to provide
Support for Public regional and local authorities, on new MLG instruments and their potentialities, in order to help them to:
- better understand their future role in the European law and policy making process at regional level;
- understand what coordination mechanisms can be put in place in order to secure good performance. |
