Trofin, Laura: Multi-level governance and the management of European funds for regional development in Romania. 2008
Inhalt
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- ZUSAMMENFASSUNG
- LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER I.
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 Regions, Regionalisation, Regional Development Policy and Management of EU funds in Romania. Institutions and central problems.
- 1.1 The EU Cohesion Policy and the evolution of its “regional component” in the last 10 years
- 1.2 European integration and regional development in Romania
- 1.3 Public administration reform
- 2 Clarifying and narrowing down the research field
- 3 Overall purpose and theoretical framework
- 4 Work hypotheses
- 5 Methodology
- 5.1 Distribution of policy competencies across jurisdictions
- 5.2 Informal power relations among jurisdictions
- 5.3 Literature overview
- 5.4 Empirical Research
- 6 Organisation of the thesis
- 7 Conclusions
- CHAPTER II ESCAPING THE DESCRIPTION TRAP: BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ENLARGEMENT, PRE-ACCESSION AID, EU COHESION POLICY, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN ROMANIA
- 1 EU Enlargement Policy and Romania
- 2 The EU pre-accessions financial support
- 3 The EU Regional/Cohesion Policy
- 4 Implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 in Romania
- 5 Legislative framework for regional development policy in Romania, Law no. 315/2004
- 5.1 The Regional Development Boards
- 5.2 The Regional Development Agencies
- 5.3 The National Board of Regional Development
- 6 Public administration organisation in Romania
- CHAPTER III THE ROMANIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: HISTORY, ORGANISATION, MODUS OPERANDI, DECENTRALISATION PROCESS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Local and regional public administration in Romania before 1990
- 2.1 Medieval Times: Moldova and Muntenia: Centralised Monarchies
- 2.2 Modern Times
- 2.3 The Communist Legacy
- 3 Administrative-political culture in Romania
- 4 An overview of the post-communist public administration reform
- 5 Corruption
- 6 Local administration and the administrative and fiscal decentralisation process
- 7 Conclusions
- CHAPTER IV MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PHARE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION COMPONENT IN ROMANIA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Phare Funds Programming
- 3 The Romanian institutional arrangements in place for the management of Phare National Programme
- 3.1 From DIS to EDIS and competencies shifts in the Phare implementation system
- 3.2 Institutions managing the Phare National Programme implementation
- 4 Phare Economic and Social Cohesion (ESC) Component
- 4.1 Phare 1998 and 1999 Economic and Social Cohesion Components
- 4.2 Phare 2000-2003 Economic and Social Cohesion Components
- 4.3 The Phare Economic and Social Cohesion Programme 2004-2006
- 5 Role of the line ministries in the implementation of Phare Economic and Social Cohesion Component
- 6 Analysis of the institutions involved and of their weight in each policy-making step identified
- 7 Conclusions
- CHAPTER V MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE REGIONAL OPERATIONAL PROGRAMME IN ROMANIA
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The new Cohesion Policy of the European Union
- 3 The National Tier of the Structural Funds Implementation: Coordination Mechanisms for the National Strategic Reference Framework, Authority for the Coordination of Structural Instruments, Certifying and Paying Authority, Audit Authority
- 3.1 The National Coordination Committee for Structural Instruments (NCC) – political level
- 3.2 Management Co-ordination Committee – technical level
- 3.3 Regional coordination committees
- 3.4 Authority for the Coordination of Structural Instruments
- 3.5 Certifying and Paying Authority
- 3.6 The Audit Authority and the Central Harmonizing Unit for Public Internal Audit
- 4 Post-accession Regional Development Policy in Romania: The Regional Operational Programme. Institutional arrangements, roles and competencies
- 4.1 The Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013
- 4.2 Institutional actors involved in the management and implementation of the ROP
- 5 The Human Resources Development OP and the SOP Environment: programmes implemented, fully of partially, at regional level
- 6 Analysis of the institutions involved and their weight in each policy-making step identified
- 7 Conclusions
- CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSIONS
- ANNEXES