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The EPAN contribution to the success of the Lisbon Strategy - Final report: Luxembourg, 10 of May 2005
Lisbon ad hoc group
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The "Wassenaar Memorandum of Understanding" of the EPAN Troika Ministers (04 November 2004) and the "Maastricht Resolutions" of the EPAN Directors General (22-23 November 2004) stress the importance of public administrations in the realisation of the Lisbon objectives.
In order to assist the Directors General of the EPAN in defining the EPAN contribution to the success of the Lisbon Strategy, the EPAN Lisbon ad hoc group was set up by the Directors General at their special meeting in Luxembourg on 31 January 2005.
Following the "Luxembourg Protocol of Agreement" (31 January 2005), the mandate of the Lisbon ad hoc group is limited to the period of the Luxembourg Presidency. Chaired by the Luxembourg Presidency, the objective of the Lisbon ad hoc group is to "to prepare an integrated plan of activities (working plan) that can be carried out within the working groups of EPAN, the contents of which will be integrated in the MTP, and that will help to foster and improve the efficiency and coherence of the EPAN network. …
The final conclusions of the ad hoc Lisbon group are to be submitted to the TROIKA of the Directors General before being integrated in the Mid Term Programme 2006/2007 and adopted by the Ministers responsible for Public Administration.
In this document, the Lisbon ad hoc group reports the results of its work from end of February to end of April 2005. After a short introduction, the document presents the role of public administrations, possible Lisbon related topics for the EPAN and the various management aspects for the Lisbon related activities. The last chapter contains proposals for the Directors General concerning an integrated plan of activities for the EPAN. Background information concerning the Lisbon Strategy and the EPAN can be found in Appendix 1; the work of the Lisbon ad hoc group itself is described in Appendix 2.
The proposals for an integrated plan of activities should allow the Directors General to select topics and the Luxembourg Presidency to elaborate an ambitious, but yet realistic, Lisbon relevant MTP 2006-2007, to be adopted by the Ministers responsible for Public Administration at their meeting on the 8th of June 2005 in Mondorf-les-Bains.
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