European Decision-Making in the Budgetary Field: Actors, Dynamics and Procedures

Project Leader

This two-day course will provide an intensive overview of the EU decision-making process in the budgetary field and the different ways in which the EU institutions interact in all phases of this process.

The seminar offers a discussion of the revenue and expenditure sides of the EU budget and provides an overview of the different aspects of the budgetary cycle including the revenue, the programming, the adoption, the execution, the evaluation and the discharge of the EU budget.

Participants will be given a clear and concise explanation of the budgetary procedures in place, the role of the different actors and the principles involved. Moreover, they will be given an insight into the linkage mechanisms between political strategy and elaboration of the budget and the possible tensions that it engenders.

The program will be offered by EIPA staff but an effort will be made to also incorporate a strong practitioners’ perspective through the inclusion of Council and Commission officials. The programme below is a provisional programme established to clarify the possible content of the seminar.

Programme
The programme will commence on Monday 3 May at 09.00 and finish on Tuesday 4 May at 16.45.

Seminar Venue
The seminar will take place in the Bordeaux Conference Room (1.16) of the European Institute of Public Administration, O.L. Vrouweplein 22, NL-6211 HE Maastricht, tel.: +31.43.3296222, fax: +31.43.3296296.

Working language
The seminar will be conducted in English.

Fee
The participation fee is € 825 and includes documentation, 2 lunches, 1 dinner and refreshments. Accommodation and travel costs are at the expense of the participants or their administration.

Hotel reservations

The European Institute of Public Administration will be pleased to make hotel reservations for you at a hotel in Maastricht. We have made a block booking at Hotel Beaumont**** (www.beaumont.nl), at the rate of € 102 p.p.p.n. (incl. breakfast and tourist tax). Should you wish to make use of this possibility, please indicate the dates of arrival and departure on the registration form. Payment is to be made directly and personally to the hotel on checking out. Please note that if you register after the closing date, hotel reservations cannot be guaranteed.

Lunches will be served at the Institute’s restaurant. Dinner will be at a local restaurant. Should you require a special menu (e.g. vegetarian, diabetic), please inform the Programme Organiser so that this can be arranged.

Kindly complete the online registration form and return it before 19 April 2010. Your name and address will be part of EIPA’s database for our mailing purpose only. If you do not want to be included in our mailing database, please tick the box in the registration form.

Prior payment is a condition for participation. Please indicate the method of payment on the registration form. For cancellations received after the closing date indicated on the registration form we will have to charge an administration fee of € 150 unless a replacement participant is found.

EIPA reserves the right to cancel the seminar up to 2 weeks before the starting date. EIPA accepts no responsibility for any costs incurred (travel, hotel, etc.). For EIPA’s cancellation policy, please visit our website http://seminars.eipa.eu (FAQ – Legal notice).