The European Commission’s DG Enlargement is in the process of developing guidelines for support to civil society in the enlargement countries for the period 2014-2020. Consultation on the first draft of the guidelines took place in Brussels on 25 and 26 April 2013 with invited stakeholders representing civil society, government offices for cooperation with civil society and EU Delegations in the region.

Based on stakeholder input at the Brussels event, the draft guidelines were revised and published for broader consultation online as well as at national consultation events.

As a result of this broader consultation, DG Enlargement received a very high number of comments from individual and joint submissions on the regional guidelines. The submissions have provided an invaluable input into the further development of the guidelines and DG Enlargement would like to thank all those many organisations who took time to send their feedback.

Based on the success of consultation, it has been decided the same process will continue until the end of August.

The monitoring framework will be delivered to the new TACSO contractor in order for the assessment of the baseline for most of the indicators referred to the year 2013 can start. The aim is to provide the first national and regional monitoring assessment by the first semester of 2014.

Please send your input by the end of August to: ELARG-CSF-P2P@ec.europa.eu

For more information see the DG enlargement guidelines and the Outcomes of online and national consultations May-June 2013