• 27-May-2013

    Latvian, PDF, 14,129kb

    SIGMA Paper No. 4: Management Control in Modern Government Administration (1996, Latvian)

    This publication focuses on the control mechanisms and procedures that need to be built into an organisation’s systems in order to provide reasonable assurance that top management’s objectives will be met, rather than on the design and application of management information systems, which, we believe, are generally well understood in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs).

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  • 28-June-2001

    Latvian, PDF, 534kb

    SIGMA Paper No. 31: Improving Policy Instruments through Impact Assessment (2001, Latvian)

    This publication deals with impact assessment in a wide sense, including policy analysis (impact assessment for choosing the instrument), assessment of a policy instrument during the drafting stage and evaluation of existing laws or programmes. Special emphasis is given to impact assessment during drafting.

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  • 19-November-1999

    Latvian, PDF, 235kb

    SIGMA Paper No. 27: European Principles for Public Administration (1999, Latvian)

    This paper attempts to identify the standards to which EU candidate countries are expected to conform in order to align their public administrations with those of EU Member States. Originating from SIGMA’s work on public administration reform in central and eastern European countries, it describes an important part of the basis of the SIGMA methodology for assessing candidate countries’ public administration capacities.

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  • 20-March-1998

    Latvian, PDF, 644kb

    SIGMA Paper No. 20: Effects of European Union Accession: Part II External Audit (1998, Latvian)

    This report draws on the separate country papers which describe in more detail the different experiences of selected national State audit institutions in their co-operation with the Commission’s services and the European Court of Auditors (ECA). The present publication complements SIGMA Paper No. 19 on the impact of accession on budgeting and financial control.

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  • 19-March-1998

    Latvian, PDF, 607kb

    SIGMA Paper No. 19: Effects of European Union Accession: Part I Budgeting and Financial Control (1998, Latvian)

    This report draws on the separate country papers which describe in more detail the different experiences of selected national State audit institutions in their co-operation with the Commission’s services and the European Court of Auditors (ECA). The present publication complements SIGMA Paper No. 20 on the impact of accession on external audit.

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