Serbia Scores a Weak Two in Professionalisation of Public Administration
Serbia Scores a Weak Two in Professionalisation of Public Administration

Author(s): Vladimir V. Mihajlović
Subject(s): Public Administration, Post-Communist Transformation, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Centar za Evropske Politike CEP
Keywords: public administration;
Summary/Abstract: Although public administration reform is recognised as one of the three pillars of EU Enlargement, nonetheless, neither acquis communautaire nor separate negotiating chapter exists for this area. Therefore, the European Commission had to come up with a new mechanism for monitoring progress of candidate countries in this field. Thus, in 2014, the EC and SIGMA have developed Principles of Public Administration which encompass six areas. Within the document the keyelements of good governance are included, i.e. the requests that countries should complete in order to become a successful EU member country one day. In 2015, SIGMA conducted a detailed analysis of public administration in all candidate countries and potential candidates for EU membership. In this document we analyse Serbia’s score for the Public Service and Human Resource Management and present scores of other Western Balkan countries. The area of public service is analysed through seven principles which are recognised as necessary preconditions for the establishment of professional public administration and merit-based civil service system.

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