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the effective control and assessment of the implementation of public action
often involves a territory with reasonable operational limits..., particularly for
local needs.
B. The Logic of Results
1) It is important to develop and modernize the control of local communities
by creating real “European or national agencies” of government action. It is
indeed important that the monitoring and assessment of local communities
are in other hands than those of the State concerned, in order to gain objec-
tivity and impartiality. It is also important that the monitoring and assess-
ment of local government are not made to justify the policy choices of the
elected officials but to ensure that the needs of the people are actually met.
Unlike what many elected people believe, the control and assessment of local
public action should not seek to legitimize their power, its exercise, and thus
their decisions, but to assess whether the implementation of such decisions
actually leads to an efficient and effective public action, and, if possible,
today, to an economical one, which even observes the demands of local de-
mocracy and sustainable development.
Therefore, the control and assessment of local authorities should be per-
formed by national autonomous agencies with regional relays, which, in an
ideal vision, should be linked to a European Agency. Such a structure with
levels of control and assessment of local authorities would provide legitima-
cy to these operations and independence both to those bodies exercising them
and to their agents.
Not to mention that this would allow the development of a European exper-
tise, especially in control, legal and financial areas, and in the field of the
managerial assessment of the action of local authorities in the European Un-
ion.
2) It is equally important to implement new procedures in order to monitor-
ize and assess the results of local authorities. It is also important to estimate
those results by means of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
This is somehow one of the main interests of promoting the European admin-
istration control and assessment of the public action of local authorities and
especially of their results. Thus, in order to establish the reliable criteria for
comparing the results of local authorities within the European union, we
should hold the frames of reference and the summing-up of comparable as-
sessments.
To this end, it is therefore necessary to standardize both the quantitative and
qualitative assessment indicators, especially as the needs of citizens are often
the same from one country to another, from one local community to another,
RIMD – n o 3 – 2012
the effective control and assessment of the implementation of public action
often involves a territory with reasonable operational limits..., particularly for
local needs.
B. The Logic of Results
1) It is important to develop and modernize the control of local communities
by creating real “European or national agencies” of government action. It is
indeed important that the monitoring and assessment of local communities
are in other hands than those of the State concerned, in order to gain objec-
tivity and impartiality. It is also important that the monitoring and assess-
ment of local government are not made to justify the policy choices of the
elected officials but to ensure that the needs of the people are actually met.
Unlike what many elected people believe, the control and assessment of local
public action should not seek to legitimize their power, its exercise, and thus
their decisions, but to assess whether the implementation of such decisions
actually leads to an efficient and effective public action, and, if possible,
today, to an economical one, which even observes the demands of local de-
mocracy and sustainable development.
Therefore, the control and assessment of local authorities should be per-
formed by national autonomous agencies with regional relays, which, in an
ideal vision, should be linked to a European Agency. Such a structure with
levels of control and assessment of local authorities would provide legitima-
cy to these operations and independence both to those bodies exercising them
and to their agents.
Not to mention that this would allow the development of a European exper-
tise, especially in control, legal and financial areas, and in the field of the
managerial assessment of the action of local authorities in the European Un-
ion.
2) It is equally important to implement new procedures in order to monitor-
ize and assess the results of local authorities. It is also important to estimate
those results by means of quantitative and qualitative indicators.
This is somehow one of the main interests of promoting the European admin-
istration control and assessment of the public action of local authorities and
especially of their results. Thus, in order to establish the reliable criteria for
comparing the results of local authorities within the European union, we
should hold the frames of reference and the summing-up of comparable as-
sessments.
To this end, it is therefore necessary to standardize both the quantitative and
qualitative assessment indicators, especially as the needs of citizens are often
the same from one country to another, from one local community to another,
RIMD – n o 3 – 2012
