The objective of the Study Tour was to acquaint the participants from
various regions with the following topics:
- Reform of public administration
- Privatisation, restructuring and connection to the regional
development
- Act on the establishing of ministries and other bodies of state
administration of the Czech Republic, competence of ministries
- Experience with housing policy and regional development during the
period of economy transformation in the Czech Republic
- Programmes of the regional development support
- Structure of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech
Republic, its, competence; budget, rewards system of state
employees, their benefits and guarantees; status of the ministry in
the process of public administration reform; current operations of
the ministry, medium-term economic policy
- The role of the Supreme Audit Office on the Czech Republic - its
role in a relation to the state administration
- Activities of the Regional development department of the Kladno
District office
- Employment policy in an industrial region in the process of
restructuring, Competence and possibilities of the Kladno District
office
- The role and activities of AVE Training Centre at Kladno, its
cooperation with Kladno Labour office
- Act on Public Procurement, principles, practice, role of the
Office for Protection of Economic Competition
- Financing of town's needs - Presentation of the Union of town and
municipalities, European Charter of local self-government
- Regional policy in Czech Republic
- Financing of territorial self-government
As a part of Study Tour programme the visits to the following
institutions were prepared and organised:
- Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic where it is
possible to illustrate well the reform of Czech ministries achieved
so far. Participants had a possibility to be acquainted with the
history of ministry's development to its current status, with the
current structure and activities and in details with long-term and
short-term strategy.
- Supreme Audit Office of the Czech Republic where the participants
were acquainted with the profile of this Office and in details with
its role in a relation to the state administration.
- Parliament of the Czech Republic and a meeting with Ms. J. Volfová,
Member of Parliament. Discussion was concentrated on state
administration reform, actual problems of current stage of
transformation and preparation of Czech Republic's entry into the
European Union, equal rights of men and women, school system, etc.
The first day of the Study Tour was dedicated to the short
participants' presentations in order to homogenise the group, to the
brief information about nowadays economy situation in the Czech Republic
and to the overall information about the subject of the Study Tour.
During further days participants became familiar with the regional
development, good governance and decentralisation which was demonstrated
in discussions to the lectures and during the visits.
Considerable time was devoted to the discussions of the Study Tour
topics and exchange of experience among participants which had, in view
of participants profiles, very good level.
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