Montenegro
EU Member States Parliaments
Project Timeline: February 2022-2023
PRIORITY 1: Strengthening oversight
- Member of Parliament (MP) Orientation plan preparation (February 7-8, 2023)
- MP Orientations – Experience Exchange (hybrid)
- Oversight Needs and Baseline Assessment and Work Planning
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Austrian Parliamentary Budget Office presentation (hybrid)
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Enhancing Committee reports and recommendations exchange (in person)
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Enhancing Requests for Information and Questions (in person)
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Exchange on Oversight on Security & Defence - French Senate
PRIORITY 2: Legal Harmonization to the EU Acquis
- Staff Attachments with EUMSP parliaments about legal harmonization to the acquisition communautaire (May – June, 2023)
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Legal Harmonization to EU Acquis Needs and Baseline Assessment and Work Planning
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Staff Legal Harmonization General Training (virtual)
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Enhancing Law on Parliament and EU Accession issues Budapest mission (in person)
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Legal Harmonization Skills - Three workshops (virtual)
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Using Information Sources
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Preparing Sector policy reports
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Tables of Concordance
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Attachment trainings for staff about legal harmonization. 2 to 4 weeks in an EUMSP
Outcomes:
- Enhanced staff and MP understanding, appreciation for and practices surrounding oversight.
- Enhance tools and practices that the secretariat and committee staff can use to ensure that oversight mechanisms are effectively used, tracked and followed up on recommendations developed to streamline the process for submitting questions and requests for information and for tracking government responses. Recommendations included specific suggestions for the RoP, offered an outline for a template for submission of questions and requests for information and to enhance the ways that committees draft conclusions and how their role might be strengthened.
- Enhanced staff knowledge and skills and processes for review of legislation to be harmonized shared practices for processing and completing specific aspects of legislation to be harmonized.
