20
Mar
2018
Understanding EU Decision-Making: Principles, Procedures, Practice (Course plus preliminary module)
Netherlands, Maastricht
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“I’m going to that meeting in Brussels next week. Is it an expert group or a comitology committee?”
“I need to brief the boss about what to expect. Will the Commission ask her to vote?”
“How can I know where our issue is in the EU decision process, and what comes next?”
Simple questions, the answers to which may be complex, and yet can make your job easier. This 2.5 days course will get you up to speed on the essential elements of how the EU system works: the different powers that the EU has, who does what, and how you can have a role in shaping EU decisions. It is concise but thorough, and focusses in detail on EU law-making.
Event Details
Status
As planned
Organiser type
Other event
Organiser name
European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA)
O.L. Vrouweplein 22
NL-6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 43 3296 222
Fax: +31 43 3296 296
www.eipa.eu
O.L. Vrouweplein 22
NL-6211 HE Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 43 3296 222
Fax: +31 43 3296 296
www.eipa.eu
Registration URL
Contact details
Ms Eveline Hermens
Programme Organiser
European Institute of Public Administration
Tel.: +31 43 3296 259
E-mail: e.hermens@eipa.eu
Programme Organiser
European Institute of Public Administration
Tel.: +31 43 3296 259
E-mail: e.hermens@eipa.eu
Number of delegates
< 100
Target group
Academics, students, researchers in andragogy
Policy makers
Aims and objectives
•The differences between legislative acts, implementing acts (the world of ‘comitology’!) and the new delegated acts, relating them to their place in the EU policy cycle, as well as in the hierarchy of laws.
•The decision-making procedures within the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, and the ways in which national officials and other stakeholders fit into the policy process.
•The ordinary legislative procedure and how a ‘trilogue’ works.
•Delegated and implementing acts using topical cases (including the well-known ‘glyphosate’ saga).
•The decision-making procedures within the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament, and the ways in which national officials and other stakeholders fit into the policy process.
•The ordinary legislative procedure and how a ‘trilogue’ works.
•Delegated and implementing acts using topical cases (including the well-known ‘glyphosate’ saga).
Expected (learning) outcomes
•Understand the essential principles and procedures that you need to know in order to be credible when operating in an EU context
•Be able to decode messages and reports from Brussels
•Be more effective in your own interactions with other officials
•Be better equipped to explain how things work to your colleagues and associates
•Have a feel for how things work in practice, and be able to prepare appropriately
•Have a solid basis for continuous learning on the job afterwards.
•Be able to decode messages and reports from Brussels
•Be more effective in your own interactions with other officials
•Be better equipped to explain how things work to your colleagues and associates
•Have a feel for how things work in practice, and be able to prepare appropriately
•Have a solid basis for continuous learning on the job afterwards.
Recognition / certification of participation
Certificate of attendance
Attending fee
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