Traduction de «Local Interdepartmental Joint Committee » (Anglais → Français) :

The Committee believes that local government action at the lowest tier can ensure that local problems are resolved more effectively and more quickly, that local people get more involved and can also encourage a greater sense of responsibility for joint projects.

the arrangements to ensure effective and efficient cooperation and coordination of activities within a competent authority, between two or more competent authorities involved in the same sector, and in particular where a Member State confers competence to carry out official controls on an authority other than a central competent authority between the relevant central, regional and local authorities, as laid down in Article 4(3) and Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 and Article 2(1)(g) of Directive 2000/29/EC; for example, formal arrangements for coordination of activities and ensuring consistency of officials controls such as ...[+++]meetings, joint committees and liaison groups and requirements for joint agreements or actions;

Such networked co-operation and encouragement of interlinkages is given significant emphasis in the NAPs of Austria (development partnerships), Denmark (Social Council), Finland (local partnerships), Germany (e.g. Development and Opportunity for Young People in Socially Disadvantaged Areas), Ireland (area based partnership supported by a Local Development Social Inclusion Programme), Sweden (e.g. Joint Committees of local authorities and county councils for health and social services and local development agreements with metropolitan ...[+++]authorities) and the UK (local strategic partnerships).

In addition, the Committee of the Regions has set up joint committees with local and regional authorities in two candidate countries Poland and the Czech Republic and a joint committee with Cyprus is due to be established shortly.

2. Though the establishment of a consultative mechanism for dialogue between the regional and local authorities of the two Parties is not explicitly provided for in the aforementioned Europe Agreement, the Commission proposes that a Joint Consultative Committee representing the regional and local authorities of both parties be set up by the Association Council in support of the keen interest expressed, in this respect, by both sides, represented by the Committee of the Re ...[+++]gions, of the part of the Community, and by the Slovak Liaison Committee for Co-operation with the Committee of the Regions of the European Communities, of the part of the Slovak Republic.

Jan Kasl highlighted areas that in his view should be dealt with by the joint committee, such as the issue of the financing of local and regional administrations and the question of decentralisation in the applicant countries (legislation, policy implementation, logistics, etc.).