General Overview

Euromed

The European Centre for the Regions (ECR), Antenna of the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Barcelona,  is the Programme Management Unit for the:


EuroMed Market Programme
Regional Programme for the Promotion of the Euro-Mediterranean Market Instruments and Mechanisms

This regional programme of the European Commission (EC) for industrial co-operation, aimed at all 37 Euro-Mediterranean Partners (27 EU Member States + 10 Mediterranean Partners), with a total duration of 7 years (May 2002 - May 2009), falls under component 2 of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995, pursuing the establishment of a Free-Trade Area by the year 2010 in the Mediterranean Region.
Within this regional programme, a series of 8 priority fields pertaining to the Single Market have been identified:

- Free Movement of Goods Customs
- Taxation and Rules of Origin
- Public Procurement
- Financial Services
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Protection of Personal Data and e-Commerce
- Auditing and Accounting
- Competition Rules.

For more information  please visit the website: http://www.euromedmarket.org/

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EuroMed Training of Public Administrations
Regional Training and Consultancy Programme on Public Administration for the Mediterranean Partners

The programme is the extension of an initiative of the European Commission starting in 2000 which resulted in the holding of a Conference organised by the ECR in Barcelona on 7 and 8 February 2000 entitled the "Meeting of the Representatives of the Public Administrations of the Euro-Mediterranean Partners in the Framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership".
This programme comes under Chapter II of the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995 and aims to provide training on European affairs to Civil Servants from the Southern Mediterranean and the Middle East , while also envisaging the creation of a network of training centres in public administration between the Euro-Mediterranean Partners.
This programme, which runs between January 2004 and December 2009, is aimed at the 10 Mediterranean Partners and is also open to the 27 EU Member States and the Candidate Countries. It consists of 4 modules

1) basic EU knowledge;
2) in-depth EU knowledge;
3) management of Community Programmes;
4) actions to train trainers.

For more information  please visit the EuroMed Public Administration website

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EuroMed Justice II Project

The European Commission launched a new regional project in the field of justice in the Euro-Mediterranean area, EuroMed Justice II (January 2008 – January 2011) with a budget of 5 million Euro . This project is implemented by a consortium lead by the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) and composed of the International and Ibero-American Foundation of Administration and Public Policies (FIIAPP) and of the Spanish General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

The European Centre for the Regions, EIPA's Antenna based in Barcelona , is the Programme Management Unit for the EuroMed Justice II Project.

The beneficiaries of this project are 9 Mediterranean Partners (MP): Algeria , Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Lebanon , Morocco , the Palestinian Authority , Syria and Tunisia .

The overall objective is to contribute to the development of a Euro-Mediterranean area of cooperation on justice. The modernization of the judicial system underpinning the principles of judges´ independence and the consolidation of MP, both being priority areas to all of them. Another objective of the project is to develop networks.

The project is structured around three different components:

  • Access to justice and legal aid: to remove obstacles to access to justice and legal aid, and to the due enforcement of delivered ruling.
  • Resolution of cross-border family conflicts: their significance, their number and impact on the less protected groups.
  • Transposition of international conventions on criminal and prison law.
For more information  please visit the website: http://euromed-justice.eu