Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe
Chamber of Regions

Integrated Project “Making democratic institutions work”

Strasbourg, 23 September 2002

Transparency of the financing of political parties
and their democratic functioning
Agenda

Expert workshop, Strasbourg, 18 October 2002

1. OPENING OF THE MEETING BY THE SECRETARIAT
AND PRESENTATION OF PARTICIPANTS

2. PRESENTATION OF THE PROJECT FRAMEWORK

Integrated project « Making democratic institutions work »

3. TRANSPARENCY OF THE FINANCING OF POLITICAL PARTIES

3.1 Council of Europe’s work on the subject

Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (Mr Haegi)
Venice Commission
Parliamentary Assembly
The Steering Committee on Local Democracy (Dan Popescu)
Multidisciplinary Group on Corruption (GMC) and Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO) (Mr Fremr)

3.2 Work of other organisations

The European Parliament (Mr Lehmann)
OECD (Mr Matheson)
International IDEA (Ms Tjernström)
Transparency International (Ms Dell)
Anti-Corruption campaign Coalition 2000 (Mr Tsenkov)

3.3 Follow-up to this work

General exchange of views

4. THE PREPARATION OF A MANUAL

4.1 Concept and objectives

4.2 Calendar

4.3 Division of tasks

4.4 Financial issues

5. CONCLUSIONS

5.1 Summing up by the Secretariat

6. OTHER BUSINESS