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Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Challenges in the Cooperation
Between Different Administrative
Levels: A View From Practice
Caspar Sluiter
Senior Policy Officer European Affairs
e-mail: [email protected]
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Multilevel governance and the VNG
European
Union
National
Provincial
Local
Water board
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
The role of the VNG
Network of
civil servants
390
Municipalities
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Relations between the local and national level
• Lobby with national government and parliament
• The Code of inter-administrative relations
• How to inform each other
• Local impact of national rules
• Financial compensation of new tasks
 This code also applies to the EU
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Local-national cooperation in the EU: establishing
a NL position
• EU and Local level increasingly intertwined  constitutional
make up of NL ill-equipped to deal with it
• Common goal: see what influence the EU policy might have
on the status quo
• VNG actively involved in drafting national position
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Local-national cooperation in the EU: negotiations
in Brussels
Council
The
Hague
Commission
Brussels
Parliament
CEMR
Committee
of the
Regions
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
VNG in the EU decision making process
Commission
Proposes
legislation
Council
Parliament
Decision
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Future trends
Decentralization
European integration
Differentiation
Network society
‘Maak verschil: Krachtig inspelen
op regionaal-economische
opgaven’
Werkgroep openbaar bestuur
‘Goed geschakeld? Over de regio
en de EU’
Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Challenges
Differentiation
between
governance levels:
‘agree to disagree’
Position of regions
 treaty change
necessary?
Acceptance of
national
government that
local governments
are in the driver
seat
How to deal
with nongovernmental
partners?
Differentiation of
regions  is the
Inter-administrative
Relations Code and
‘polder model’
enough?
Association of Netherlands Municipalities
Challenges in the Cooperation Between Different
Administrative Levels
A perspective from the VNG