EC TO LAUNCH FIRST TWINNING PROJECTS IN ARMENIA

armradio.am
12.06.2008 13:10

The European Commission will launch first Twinning Projects in
Armenia-a workshop on the "Standard Cost Model" organised in the frame
of the preparation of a Twinning project with the Ministry of Economy.

Twinning is an important programme in the European Union’s tool box of
financial and technical cooperation. Twinning is a programme of peer
to peer cooperation that matches a Member State administration with
an ENP (European Neighbourhood Policy) partner country administration,
to jointly work to face a specific challenge together.

The Twinning project introducing Standard Cost Model will be one of the
first twinnings for Armenia, but will certainly be the first of more
twinning projects as cooperation between the EU and Armenia continues.

A team of EU consultants, who have been working with the Ministry
of Economy for the last weeks to develop the concept of this first
twinning, are the first step in a process.

The next months will see a continuation of this process, which will
culminate in the selection of a Member State which will work with
the Ministry over an extended period, most likely 24 months.

The purpose of this first twinning is to develop the capacity of
the Government of Armenia and other key Stakeholders in the Armenian
Economy and pursue a pilot intervention in one of technical tools in
Regulatory Impact Assessment…. the Standard Cost Model.

The Standard Cost Model is a useful tool, first developed in the
Netherlands and now being implemented in many EU countries (earlier
on Denmark, Sweden, Norway, U.K., and now several others), to measure
costs and administrative burdens associated with government regulation,
and then to simplify these administrative procedures to reduce those
costs and burdens.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress