OECD

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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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