Montenegrin Capacity Building for Approximation of EU Legislation
Supported by: SlovakAid, a Slovak Ministry of Foreign
Affairs' Programme
The project "Montenegrin capacity building for
approximation of EU legislation" began in June 2012. It has been
implemented by NISPAcee, in co-operation with the Project Partner Institution,
Human Resources Management Authority. The project is supported by SlovakAid and
the project’s activities are scheduled for one year.
Short description of the project:
Montenegro (MN), as a
candidate country of the European Union, is expected to begin intense
negotiations regarding accession to the Euro zone and the related process of
harmonisation of its national laws with the acquis communautaire in June 2012.
It will be a long-term and complicated process requiring both capable
negotiators amongst government representatives, as well as a sufficient number
of well-trained state officials working in the central bodies of state
administration, who will be the direct actors during the integration of
directives, resolutions, and decisions of the European Union into generally
binding national legal regulations. The complexity of the approximation process
is also highlighted by the fact that the law of the European Union today
consists of almost 18,000 applicable legal regulations.
Therefore, the partner organisations developed this
project with the aim of providing practical information at all stages of the
approximation process, together with guidance as to how to approach the changes
in the process of law-making and what should be expected.
Overall objective of the project:
Competent Montenegrin
state authorities prepared for approximation and harmonisation with the acquis
communautaire.
Project outputs:
1.1. Collection of policy papers.
1.2. Key state officials/legislators prepared for the
process of approximation and harmonisation of Montenegrin laws.
Main project activities:
- Preparatory and working meetings.
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Analysis of the actual situation, consultations.
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Development of the collection of policy papers
containing recommendations for individual steps of a legislative and other
nature, which will be based on the actual current situation as regards the
Montenegrin law-making process and aimed at its gradual preparation for the
process of law approximation.
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The Seminar (MN) focused on the changes in legislative
technique, law-making processes, and consequential requirements in the
pre-accession period and during membership of the European Union. Although the
accession of Montenegro to the European Union will be preceded by aseemingly
long period of accession process, the "post-accession” period needs to
already be incorporated into the presented project at this stage, since the
preparation for legislative changes that will occur during that period need to
begin now.
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Study trip (SK) with the purpose of visiting top Slovak
central state administration bodies which have played a key role in the process
of law approximation. During individual visits, the participants will have
thepossibility to acquire additional information, as well as to establish
useful contacts for further expert cooperation.
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Final conference (MN) with the aim of evaluating the
implementation of the project in its entirety and the content of the
recommendations contained in the "policy papers" and to represent an
important milestone of expert cooperation between both countries in the process
of Montenegro’s accession to the European Union.