European Commission Assistance Project to the SECI Regional Center
A European Commission assistance project to the SECI Regional Center for Combating Trans-Border Crime was launched today at the Center’s Headquarters in Bucharest.
The project will be conducted over a 5 month period and seeks to establish the organisational and development needs of the Center through the widest possible consultation. This will include discussions and interviews with all the main stakeholders, as well as a validation process.
There will be two basic strands of development: corporate governance and data protection. Each of these will build upon the work already undertaken by both the European Commission and the SECI Center itself. The first strand will include a consideration of the organisational structure, the relationship between the Center’s component parts as well as its mandate. The second strand will focus on ways of building confidence in the use and exchange of sensitive data and, in particular, on the protection of personal data.
Through this project, funded by the European Commission, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development will work with the SECI Center to increase its operational effectiveness. More specifically, the project aims at reinforcing its legal basis, data handling and corporate governance. The chief outcome of this project will be a consolidated document encompassing all of these issues and which will be described as a new Convention. Where other needs become apparent recommendations for further implementations will be included in the final report.
The General Director of the ICMPD, Mr. Gottfried Zurcher, the Deputy Head of the EC Delegation to Romania, Mr. Onno Simons, the Austrian Ambassador, H.E. Christian Zeileissen (as representative of the country which holds the EU presidency), the Ambassador of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Tihomir Ilievski, the Serbia and Montenegro Ambassador to Romania, H.E. Dusan Crnogorcevic, Mr. Steven David Brown, the Project Team Leader, alongside with representatives of the European Commission, the Stability Pact for SEE, SEEPAG and high officials of SECI Member States attended the event.
“Now, with the help of the European Commission and the ICMPD, we have started with changes that will allow us to have a stronger, but a more flexible organisation ready for the challenges of the 21st Century” said the SECI Center Director, Mr. Mitja Mocnik.
The project will be conducted over a 5 month period and seeks to establish the organisational and development needs of the Center through the widest possible consultation. This will include discussions and interviews with all the main stakeholders, as well as a validation process.
There will be two basic strands of development: corporate governance and data protection. Each of these will build upon the work already undertaken by both the European Commission and the SECI Center itself. The first strand will include a consideration of the organisational structure, the relationship between the Center’s component parts as well as its mandate. The second strand will focus on ways of building confidence in the use and exchange of sensitive data and, in particular, on the protection of personal data.
Through this project, funded by the European Commission, the International Centre for Migration Policy Development will work with the SECI Center to increase its operational effectiveness. More specifically, the project aims at reinforcing its legal basis, data handling and corporate governance. The chief outcome of this project will be a consolidated document encompassing all of these issues and which will be described as a new Convention. Where other needs become apparent recommendations for further implementations will be included in the final report.
The General Director of the ICMPD, Mr. Gottfried Zurcher, the Deputy Head of the EC Delegation to Romania, Mr. Onno Simons, the Austrian Ambassador, H.E. Christian Zeileissen (as representative of the country which holds the EU presidency), the Ambassador of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, H.E. Tihomir Ilievski, the Serbia and Montenegro Ambassador to Romania, H.E. Dusan Crnogorcevic, Mr. Steven David Brown, the Project Team Leader, alongside with representatives of the European Commission, the Stability Pact for SEE, SEEPAG and high officials of SECI Member States attended the event.
“Now, with the help of the European Commission and the ICMPD, we have started with changes that will allow us to have a stronger, but a more flexible organisation ready for the challenges of the 21st Century” said the SECI Center Director, Mr. Mitja Mocnik.
