The Governance Committee is responsible for legal and political issues relating to the effective development of good governance and democracy at local and regional levels. Its work focuses on promoting the implementation and development of the Council of Europe's legal instruments and recommendations in the field of local and regional democracy. It also considers questions related to governance and the functioning of local and regional authorities, such as citizen participation at local and regional level, public finance, cross-border and interregional co-operation, and e-democracy.

In the framework of its mandate, the Governance Committee prepares reports, including a resolution and/or recommendation for adoption by the Congress. In accordance with the priorities set by the Congress, it may also propose activities to the Bureau for advancing local and regional democracy, and organise conferences, hearings and other events on matters linked to its work programme. 

In the framework of its activities, the Committee works closely with the relevant Council of Europe structures and bodies, in particular with the Parliamentary Assembly's Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development and the relevant subsidiary bodies of the Committee of Ministers, such as the European Committee on Democracy and Governance (CDDG) and its subcommittees.

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Congress Governance Committee meets in Covasna region

The Governance Committee of the Congress met on 30 May 2018, at the Bálványos Conference Center, in the Covasna region of Romania. On the agenda were a number of reports for adoption at the November 2018 session. Several of these are part of the Roadmap for Preventing Corruption and Promoting Public Ethics at Local and Regional Level, adopted by the Congress in 2016.                  

They include the draft European Code of Conduct for all persons involved in local and regional governance and two reports, one on the issue of transparency and open government, and the other on conflicts of interest at local and regional levels.

Members of the Committee also discussed guidelines on the consultation of local authorities by higher levels of government as well as a report on the financial difficulties facing many local and regional authorities in Europe.

Gudrun MOSLER-TÖRNSTRÖM, President of the Congress, and Attila KORODI, Member of the Romanian Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, opened this meeting, which was chaired by Jean-Louis TESTUD. The Congress Director, Jean-Philippe BOZOULS, presented the recent activities of the Congress.

This meeting was followed on 31 May by a Conference on the use of languages by local and regional authorities.

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Jelena Drenjanin
Chair of the Governance Committee
Sweden, EPP/CCE
Member of the municipal Assembly of Huddinge

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