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14 - Zilhao - Ispra - 2013 - 317
14 - Zilhao - Ispra - 2013 - 317
Adriano Zilhão
Head of the Institution Building Unit
DG Enlargement
The peer-to-peer assistance instruments
TAIEX
Technical Assistance and
Information EXchange
5
ADOPTION OF THE EUROCODES IN THE BALKAN REGION
5-6 December, 2013
TAIEX / Twinning: beneficiary groups
• Social Partners*
• Professional associations*
* Only exceptionally if actors play a clear role in the implementation of the EU acquis
• Ownership
• demand-driven, beneficiary requests as needed, sometimes requests from
other Commission services are also considered
• "Gap-mindedness"
• Focus on gaps to EU acquis
• Responsiveness
• short-term, flexible, quick delivery;
• expert mission 6-8 weeks, 10 weeks for a workshop
• Peer-to-peer
• expertise comes from EU Member States’ administrations
2500
1964*
2000 1849 1845
1778
1690
1543
1500 1322 1282
1105 1107
TOTAL
1000 IPA
500
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
50000
45000 43214
41125
38387 39000*
40000 37481 37680
35129
35000 32322
30337
29067
30000
25000
Participants
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
7000
6062 6078
6000
5400*
4963 4979
5000 2009
2010
4000
2011
3000
2012
2000 2013
1000
0
300
250
200
150 2009
100 2010
50 2011
0 2012
2013*
FYRoM
Croatia
Kosovo
Serbia
Albania
Iceland
BiH
Turkey
Montenegro
4
Workshop
3
Expert Mission
2 Study Visit
0
IPA ENPI
496
Feedback questionnaires
→ sent to participants/speakers/co-organisers one
day after end of event
→ gather feedback on events' quality and logistics
Impact feedback
→ from co-organisers ("evaluation correspondent")
6 months after end of event
→ gathers feedback on events' quality and longer term impact
http://taiex.ec.europa.eu
Project Leader, Resident Twinning Advisor and short-term experts are made
available by MS administrations or mandated bodies to counterparts in BCs
through EU funding.
Selection Meeting
____________________
_______________________
________________ TWINNING TEAM
DG ELARG
LINE
DG
DELEGATION/CFCU
MS NCP BC NCP
MINISTRY/ MINISTRY/
Twinning Contract
IMPLEMENTING IMPLEMENTING
AGENCY AGENCY
Twinning projects: the areas
Twinning: countries, numbers
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on
the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.
Twinning projects: who bids?
Twinning projects: who wins?
Twinning project on Eurocodes
Montenegro
European Commission
Directorate General for Enlargement
Institution Building Unit
TAIEX
e-mail: elarg-taiex@ec.europa.eu
Website: http://taiex.ec.europa.eu
Twinning
e-mail: Elarg-twinning@ec.europa.eu
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/twinning/