TOP 25 Latest NISPACEE UNPAN DocumentsArticle Limit gopher://rss-net.sf.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ As expressed in the subject and scope of The Service Act adopted on April 26, 2002 by the Parliament of the Czech Republic, it is addressed to the service of public servants in administrative authorities. According to Part Four, paragraph 61-69 stating the "obligations and basic rights of public servants" certain principals obliged, including professionalism, impartiality, efficiency and effectiveness, loyalty, justice and equity, ethnical conduct, conflict of interest, political neutrality, legality and respect for law, as well as respect for the Mission. The act also provides guidelines in terms the diverse areas of the public service, such as of general provisions, it gives a thorough assessment of the preparation for service, service relationship, disciplinary liability, conditions for performance of service, compensations for damage, social security of public servants, provision of information to public servants, remuneration of public servants, and joint, transitory and concluding provisions. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012622.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:10:59 GMT According to the Act XXIII./1992 on the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Parliament of Hungry acknowledges the essential role of public servants within the public sector. To improve the education and professionalism an amendment of the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Act on Civil Service was adopted in 28 May 2001 by the Parliament of Hungry. The act stresses certain areas covering issues such as in line with sections 5 through 22, the act highlights "The commencement and termination of public service employment" outlining the subjects of public service employment. According to sections 23 through 49/N "The public service profession" is outlined, whereas sections 50 through 58/A discuss the "Disciplinary and compensatory liability" if a public servant for example commits a disciplinary offence. Sections 59 and 60/A follow in that line and outlines "Public service legal disputes". In sections 61 through 64/A the focus moves over towards "Certain rules regarding data management related to public service employment, keeping of public records". In line with sections 65 through 70 "Public service conciliation of interest" is stressed, and sections 71 through 112 outlines the "Miscellaneous provisions". The act emphasizes honesty, transparency, accountability, selflessness, conflict of interest, leadership, public interest and the importance of the public trust in the different activities and duties of the public service. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012621.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:10:59 GMT According to the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Act on Civil Service and on amendments to certain acts, dated 2 July 2001, shall set the legal relations in the performance of the civil service. The act states that "The content of civil service performance shall be the rights and duties of the state and civil servants resulting from the performance of civil service or connected with the performance of civil service", and is founded on the principles of professionalism, impartiality and fairness, efficiency and effectiveness, ethical conduct, political neutrality, creativity, legality, and respect for the Mission. The act provides guidance divided into four parts: 1) fundamental provisions, 2) civil service employment relationship including establishment, change and termination of civil service employment relationship, rights and obligations of civil servants, terms of civil service performance, how to deepen and extend the qualification of civil servants, remuneration of civil servants and other entitlements, sickness security of civil servants, compensation for damage, how to handle activities of trade unions, common provisions, and proceedings in matters relating to civil service employment relationship, 3) collective bargaining in the civil service, and 4) common, interim and final provisions. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012614.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:10:59 GMT As expressed in the subject and scope of The Service Act adopted on April 26, 2002 by the Parliament of the Czech Republic, it is addressed to the service of public servants in administrative authorities. According to Part Four, paragraph 61-69 stating the "obligations and basic rights of public servants" certain principals obliged, including professionalism, impartiality, efficiency and effectiveness, loyalty, justice and equity, ethnical conduct, conflict of interest, political neutrality, legality and respect for law, as well as respect for the Mission. The act also provides guidelines in terms the diverse areas of the public service, such as of general provisions, it gives a thorough assessment of the preparation for service, service relationship, disciplinary liability, conditions for performance of service, compensations for damage, social security of public servants, provision of information to public servants, remuneration of public servants, and joint, transitory and concluding provisions. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012622.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:32:07 GMT According to the Act XXIII./1992 on the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Parliament of Hungry acknowledges the essential role of public servants within the public sector. To improve the education and professionalism an amendment of the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Act on Civil Service was adopted in 28 May 2001 by the Parliament of Hungry. The act stresses certain areas covering issues such as in line with sections 5 through 22, the act highlights "The commencement and termination of public service employment" outlining the subjects of public service employment. According to sections 23 through 49/N "The public service profession" is outlined, whereas sections 50 through 58/A discuss the "Disciplinary and compensatory liability" if a public servant for example commits a disciplinary offence. Sections 59 and 60/A follow in that line and outlines "Public service legal disputes". In sections 61 through 64/A the focus moves over towards "Certain rules regarding data management related to public service employment, keeping of public records". In line with sections 65 through 70 "Public service conciliation of interest" is stressed, and sections 71 through 112 outlines the "Miscellaneous provisions". The act emphasizes honesty, transparency, accountability, selflessness, conflict of interest, leadership, public interest and the importance of the public trust in the different activities and duties of the public service. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012621.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:32:07 GMT According to the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Act on Civil Service and on amendments to certain acts, dated 2 July 2001, shall set the legal relations in the performance of the civil service. The act states that "The content of civil service performance shall be the rights and duties of the state and civil servants resulting from the performance of civil service or connected with the performance of civil service", and is founded on the principles of professionalism, impartiality and fairness, efficiency and effectiveness, ethical conduct, political neutrality, creativity, legality, and respect for the Mission. The act provides guidance divided into four parts: 1) fundamental provisions, 2) civil service employment relationship including establishment, change and termination of civil service employment relationship, rights and obligations of civil servants, terms of civil service performance, how to deepen and extend the qualification of civil servants, remuneration of civil servants and other entitlements, sickness security of civil servants, compensation for damage, how to handle activities of trade unions, common provisions, and proceedings in matters relating to civil service employment relationship, 3) collective bargaining in the civil service, and 4) common, interim and final provisions. http://workspace.unpan.org/sites/internet/Documents/UNPAN012614.pdf Code of Conduct Ethics or Equivalent Civil servants NISPAcee Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:32:07 GMT The article presents the current organization and the past and potential development of administrative procedural law - particularly the General Administrative Procedure Act - in Slovenia from its independence in 1991 till 2011. The author critically evaluates the regulation of general and special administrative procedures in Slovenia in light of the insufficient overcoming of traditional patterns. Namely the regulation in place overprotects the rights of parties and rather neglects the efficiency of administrative procedures as a whole. The evaluations are supported by the development of the theory of governance, radical changes in society and the need for a shift in the understanding of state/authority in the system in Slovenia and other countries (e.g. Finland, Croatia or the USA). http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan049016.pdf Case Studies NISPAcee Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:23:53 GMT In this article, we deal only with "public services ombudsmen". Ombudsmen that have been created in order to deal with private manners are not covered here. We compare here the way in which ombudsmen in the Netherlands and in England and Wales position normative standards to assess administrative behaviour in relation to the law and to jurisprudence. We have chosen those ombudsmen, because they have in common that they cannot make legally binding decisions and both evaluate administrative behaviour by exclusively using good administration principles next to legal norms. In this respect, they do differ consistently from the courts. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan049015.pdf Analytical Reports NISPAcee Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:18:49 GMT There appears to be a remarkable contradiction between what is happening in public-administration science and in public-administration practice. In the former, legal approaches have been displaced by managerial and political approaches. This shift sharply contrasts with the continuous legalization and juridification of publicadministration practice. Public-administration practice has gradually converged with the law. Lawyers and legal scholars applaud the convergence of the law and public administration as the ultimate realization of the ideal of the Rechtsstaat. A public-administration perspective should take a more critical stance. From a publicadministration perspective, the Rechtsstaat produces both functional and dysfunctional effects. Assessing these effects requires comparative and multi-disciplinary research. Comparative research will reveal different legal and administrative traditions both within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world. The Rechtsstaat should therefore return onto the public-administration research agenda. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan049014.pdf Analytical Reports NISPAcee Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:14:41 GMT As expressed in the subject and scope of The Service Act adopted on April 26, 2002 by the Parliament of the Czech Republic, it is addressed to the service of public servants in administrative authorities. According to Part Four, paragraph 61-69 stating the "obligations and basic rights of public servants" certain principals obliged, including professionalism, impartiality, efficiency and effectiveness, loyalty, justice and equity, ethnical conduct, conflict of interest, political neutrality, legality and respect for law, as well as respect for the Mission. The act also provides guidelines in terms the diverse areas of the public service, such as of general provisions, it gives a thorough assessment of the preparation for service, service relationship, disciplinary liability, conditions for performance of service, compensations for damage, social security of public servants, provision of information to public servants, remuneration of public servants, and joint, transitory and concluding provisions. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan012622.pdf Codes of Conduct NISPAcee Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:16:02 GMT According to the Act XXIII./1992 on the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Parliament of Hungry acknowledges the essential role of public servants within the public sector. To improve the education and professionalism an amendment of the Legal Status of Public Servants and of other acts, the Act on Civil Service was adopted in 28 May 2001 by the Parliament of Hungry. The act stresses certain areas covering issues such as in line with sections 5 through 22, the act highlights "The commencement and termination of public service employment" outlining the subjects of public service employment. According to sections 23 through 49/N "The public service profession" is outlined, whereas sections 50 through 58/A discuss the "Disciplinary and compensatory liability" if a public servant for example commits a disciplinary offence. Sections 59 and 60/A follow in that line and outlines "Public service legal disputes". In sections 61 through 64/A the focus moves over towards "Certain rules regarding data management related to public service employment, keeping of public records". In line with sections 65 through 70 "Public service conciliation of interest" is stressed, and sections 71 through 112 outlines the "Miscellaneous provisions". The act emphasizes honesty, transparency, accountability, selflessness, conflict of interest, leadership, public interest and the importance of the public trust in the different activities and duties of the public service. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan012621.pdf Codes of Conduct NISPAcee Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:13:45 GMT According to the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the Act on Civil Service and on amendments to certain acts, dated 2 July 2001, shall set the legal relations in the performance of the civil service. As the act states "The content of civil service performance shall be the rights and duties of the state and civil servants resulting from the performance of civil service or connected with the performance of civil service", and is founded on the principles of professionalism, impartiality and fairness, efficiency and effectiveness, ethical conduct, political neutrality, creativity, legality, and respect for the Mission. The act provides guidance divided into four parts: 1) fundamental provisions, 2) civil service employment relationship including establishment, change and termination of civil service employment relationship, rights and obligations of civil servants, terms of civil service performance, how to deepen and extend the qualification of civil servants, remuneration of civil servants and other entitlements, sickness security of civil servants, compensation for damage, how to handle activities of trade unions, common provisions, and proceedings in matters relating to civil service employment relationship, 3) collective bargaining in the civil service, and 4) common, interim and final provisions. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan012614.pdf Codes of Conduct NISPAcee Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:05:26 GMT EIPASCOPE is the Bulletin of the European Institute of Public Administration and is published three times a year. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan007204.pdf Press Release NISPAcee Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:53:54 GMT Policy Implications for Visegard Four Countries in Potential Spaces http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan038021.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:51:15 GMT The Civil Society Index Analytical Country Report for Kazakhstan was prepared by the research team of the Public Policy Research Center, with support from CIVICUS researchers and programme advisors. The project was funded by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and the European Union (EU) Delegation to Kazakhstan. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045464.pdf Analytical Reports NISPAcee Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:36:42 GMT The aim of the paper is to focus on process, tools, resul ts and outcomes of the Benchmarking Initiative 2005, a bot tom-up informal init iative enabling thei r members, Czech cit ies, through applying benchmarking cycle, to measure and compare their performance and quali ty of services, to analyze processes, to find the best pract ices and their own gaps in performance, to get inspired and to learn lessons f rom the best performers to be able to prepare and implement changes in thei r own processes for the sake of improving the quali ty and effectiveness of service performance. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045244.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:48:45 GMT Since 2006 in most of Federation subjects local government has been acting on the basis of new principles of territory organisation and financial and economic governance. The key objective of the paper is to analyze the accordance of declared and real objectives of the municipal reform: whether it has provided real economic independence of local government and its protection from voluntarism decisions taken at the level of Federation subjects. Basing on the comparative analyze of fiscal decentralization indicators the author make conclusions on how these officially declared aims have been realised and formulated main results of the reform. Formally the significant financial stabilization of local self-government has been observed... http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045243.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:45:44 GMT The main idea of decentralisation is transferring power from the centre to the lower layers or to the subordinate units. In the public administration, decentralisation normally means transferring powers (especially decision making power ) from central administration to agency, regional or local levels. Deconcentration and deregulation are phenomena which in many cases have been connected to decentralisation. In modernising developed public administrations, decentralisation seems to be one of key issues. The aim of decentralisation is to increase impacts of the grass root level actors in decision making and democratise public policies and activities. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045242.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:43:11 GMT Multi-level governance is one of the most widely utilized government structures across the developed countries, mainly due to the undoubted advantages of decentralization. This is the reason why, 17 years after the beginning of the transition process Bulgaria has made remarkable progress in reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations. The main goal of this paper is to critically examine the main achievements and basic challenges of the fiscal decentralization reform in the country. Analysis is mainly focused on the local revenue sources, due to the assumption that the strong revenue raising capacity and the stable intergovernmental transfer system are basic preconditions for financial independence and stability of the local government. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045241.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:39:34 GMT The new ICT are offering the possibility to establish a two-way communication between governments and citizens. By means of electronic mail, online discussion forums and other such technologies many authors claim the possibility of increased public participation. This paper tries to analyze the way in which Romanian local governments are using these new possibilities. The assessment was based on the analysis of websites, online forums and interviews and e-interviews with persons in charge of the e-communication process. The findings are showing us that these new technologies have a low usage, both in terms of quantity and quality. There are few local governments which are offering more than e-mail services (not used at full potential)... http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045239.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:27:35 GMT In paper author will present different aspects of e-governance development in Slovenian municipalities and try to compare it to different other cases around the EU states. In first part some theoretical framework of e-government in local communities will be prepared and supported by case of Slovenian legal framework concerning e-government. In second part some most recent data of different e-government studies in Slovenia and in some other countries (Poland, Denmark, etc.) will be presented and compared in order to show different possible approaches in developing e-governance in context of local government, what is especially important from the political participation and democracy providing point of view... http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045238.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:24:04 GMT Describing the process of public sector decentralization is a aim of the article. Increasing the responsibility and competence of local government units is aimed at a taken of decentralization process of the sector of the public finance. Thanks to granted competence, the local authority together with the community take decisions concerning the path of the development of given local government unit. In the article tasks and competence of government units on different level were discussed. Also critically, issues connected with financial resources of local government units and the connection of these resources with the expenses side were presented. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan045237.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:20:29 GMT Despite lasting for the last decade attempts and reforms of local government aiming at decentralization and empowering local authorities, Kyrgyzstan is still regarded as pretty centralized country with the strong presidency power, but a weak central government and a weak local level. The term "local level" is subdivided between an intermediate level (oblast and rayon) and local government at the city and the village level . The intermediate level is actually a local state administration represented by the oblast governor (7 in total) and rayon akims appointed by the President (40 in total). The city local government is presented by 27 cities - 2 cities of the republican significance, 10 cities of oblast significance and 13 cities of rayon significance . The mayors are appointed by the President and confirmed by the local councils. Confirmation of the local council requires formal agreement of the governor and akims. The village government (aiyl-okmotu) is presented by 472 elected LSG heads and 6818 elected councilors. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan043638.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:49:57 GMT Based on a data set including 217 communities in Armenia, this paper studies the choice of priorities of local development programs for the period of 2003-2005. Local development programs aim at improving public infrastructure and promoting local business development, the latter of which is documented to be having a relatively minute share. Faced with this evidence, the paper explores possible explanations in the institutional setting of local policy-making with reference to on-going discussions on the state of decentralized governance in Armenia. In addition, given the scope of local development programs, the degree of their responsiveness to community needs is explored for the case of drinking water infrastructure priorities. The responsiveness is suggested to be higher in places where residents have better access to information on programs provided in newspapers. http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan043637.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:46:53 GMT Current article is confessedly one of the first attempts to analyse and compare the problems of capital cities in the Central and Eastern European and Caucasus Countries Region. Capital cities have a special role in their national local self-government system. On one hand, each capital city has a certain symbolic meaning to their state; the whole state is assessed based on its capital city. On the other hand, the capital city generally differs from the rest of the local governments of the state... http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/nispacee/unpan043636.pdf Substantive Conference Paper NISPAcee Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:43:16 GMT