Publications

 

All SIGMA publications and documents can be accessed free of charge. To download them, please ensure that you have Acrobat Reader.

 

 

Assessments Reports

 

SIGMA prepares annual Assessment Reports at the request of the Euopean Commission and as a contribution to its annual Progress Reports on EU candidate and potential candidate countries. These reports also feed into the EC's its technical assistance programming also provide countries with inputs to their reform activities. All Reports

 

 

Papers

 

SIGMA Papers are prepared as contributions to SIGMA's work with its partners and focus on specific issues in governance and management, such as financial control, administrative oversights, inter-ministerial co-ordination and public procurement. All Papers

 

 

Profiles

 

Public Management Profiles

 

SIGMA's Management Profiles provide comprehensive information on horizontal management systems and identify the main issues governing the public sector in a given country. Areas covered include the constitutional framework, legislative authority, central executive, personnel management, administrative oversight and control, and the management of European integration. All Profiles

 

Centre of Government Profiles

 

How is the government organised? How regularly does it convene? How does it reach decisions? What are the legislative and regulatory procedures? These Centre of Government Profiles provide answers to these questions and more. All Profiles

 

Civil Services and State Administrations

 

These profiles focus mainly on public service characteristics, the professional role of public servants in policy functions and decison-making, and their realtions with the public and politicians. All Profiles

 

 

Newsletters

 

SIGMA produced Update Newsletters between 2003 and 2007.

 

SIGMA also produced Audit Newsletters with the European Court of Auditors between 2002 and 2006. These newsletters were produced for the networks of Supreme Audit Institutions of new EU member states, candidate countries and potential candidate countries.

 

 

Meeting Documents

 

These documents were prepared by SIGMA experts and external consultants for events (co-)organised by SIGMA.

 

 

Other Documents

 

Public Procurement in the EU

 

You can search the complete list of our publications by countryactivity area, or alphabetically.

 

Some SIGMA and Directorate for Public Governance publications are available in 3rd languages.

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