Sigma Activities: Montenegro

Sigma is supporting the reform efforts of Montenegro in priority areas through its work on the following projects:

Design of Reform

• Public Administration Reform Strategy and Programming for EAR (December 2001 – July 2003)

Financial Control and External Audit

• Draft Public Internal Financial Control (PIFC) Law (March - December 2008)
• Roadmap towards Establishment of DIS Management Structure (July 2007 - March 2008)
• Assistance in Drafting PIFC Policy Paper (July 2007 - February 2008)

Legal Framework, Civil Service and Justice

• Study Visit for the Administrative Court (February - August 2007)
• Public Administration Reform and Civil Service Assistance (June 2004 – June 2005)
• Comments on E-Signature Law (June–July 2003)
• Financing Local Government Law Review (December 2002 – January 2003)
  

Public Procurement

• Training Seminars on Institution-Building for the newly established Public Procurement Agency (October 2007 - March 2008)
• Assistance in Developing Secondary Legislation (July 2006 - March 2007)
• Assistance in Drafting Procurement and Concessions Laws (March - December 2004)
  

Further sources of information on Montenegro, such as Sigma's Public Management Profile (2003), its geography, people or system of government, can be found by consulting the following sites:

European Commission's country profile: Montenegro

Relations of the EU with Montenegro

Official websites in Montenegro