Ad Hoc Report on the Twinning Instrument : Mulit-country ; Phare: Assessment of the European Union Phare Programmes

This is one of six Thematic Reports which the OMAS Consortium is preparing. Its purpose is to identify issues where improvement appears desirable in relation to the Twinning Instrument, and to stimulate debate on constructive approaches to the operation of Twinning for the future. The report, as required by its Terms of Reference, concentrates on the Agriculture, Environment and Justice and Home Affairs sectors. The 35 available OMAS reports for these three sectors constituted the database, and these reports included 97 assessments of twinnings. The OMAS Ad Hoc Report on Programming and Project Design and the OMAS Thematic Report on Public Administration Reform have also been drawn on in the preparation of this report, as have two documents from the Commission Services: an assessment of the twinning instrument of July 2000; and a brochure issued in March 2001 which includes some interesting observations about twinning by both EU and Member States’ participants.