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OECD Workgroup IV, GfD-initiative Session 1 - Capacity Building for Law Drafting

OECD Workgroup IV, GfD-initiative Session 1 - Capacity Building for Law Drafting Paris, 20 th October 2008 Chris Moll European Academy for Legislation. Legislative capacity building: addressing participants, procedures and paragraphs

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OECD Workgroup IV, GfD-initiative Session 1 - Capacity Building for Law Drafting

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  1. OECD • Workgroup IV, GfD-initiative • Session 1 - • Capacity Building for Law Drafting • Paris, 20th October 2008 • Chris Moll • European Academy for Legislation

  2. Legislative capacity building: addressing participants, procedures and paragraphs • Participants: (constitutionally) empowered actors in the legislative process • Procedures: sequential interaction between actors, involved in the legislative process • Paragraphs: the outcome of the legislative process

  3. Legislative capacity building: what does it take? • A comprehensive, threefold approach • Comprehensive: curricula include • interrelated subjects to legislative drafting • Threefold: targeting at knowledge transfer, skills, practice

  4. Legislative capacity building: the • Academy for Legislation • A post-academic training institute for • legislative professionals employed in the Dutch Central Government, Council of State and Parliament, providing for éducation permanente • Established in 2000. Modular programmes (600 students annually)

  5. Legislative capacity building: the • experience of the Academy for Legislation • Knowledge (clusters): Legislation (framework design), Public administration European & international law (legal setting of legislative process) • Skills: legislative skills (writing, presenting) • Practice: national, international • assignments/stages (applying knowledge)

  6. European Academy for Legislation (1) • Profile: platform for exchange, knowledge transfer for legislative professionals • Activities: development of expert meetings, colloquia, master courses, fostering European legislative cultures • Approach: comprehensive, mix of theory and practice

  7. European Academy for Legislation (2) • Allocated knowledge: involvement of best European experts (cooperation IAL) • Content: general notions (subjects) of legislation, identified as relevant at international, national level (a.o. legislative quality, managing stock of legislation, RIA, implementation, evaluation)

  8. Legislative capacity building for the • MENA-countries: what does it take, and • what can the European Academy for • Legislation offer (1) ? • Critical assessment of needs for reform • Development of comprehensive training programmes (demand driven, co-ownership)

  9. Legislative capacity building for the • MENA-countries: what does it take, and • what can the European Academy for • Legislation offer (2) ? • Offering a broad range of European expertise • Peer support & assistance, sustainability of expertise (exchange, partnerships, institutional embedding of knowledge)

  10. Thank you for your attention • Chris Moll • c.moll@eafl.eu • www.eafl.eu (under construction)

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