Center of Excellence in Finance

EU Legislative Interests

We operate within the EU Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood policies, focusing on countries with a perspective to join the EU in meeting the criteria defined by the Treaty of European Union and the European Council. This includes EU candidate and potential candidate countries, as well as Eastern Partnership countries closely associated with the EU, including Moldova, Ukraine, and Armenia. We support candidates and partners on their path towards closer integration with the EU, with a strong focus on reforms related to economic governance and public administration reform. Our work is carried out in the framework of technical assistance and capacity development to public institutions in EU candidate and potential candidate countries, as well as selected Eastern Neighbourhood partner countries.

Communication Activities

Events, publications and other activities are published at www.cef-see.org

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

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Partners Partners are institutions that cooperate with the CEF in delivering our learning and knowledge sharing program, implementing international development cooperation, or have some other common area of interest. Some of them also finance projects implemented by the CEF. Through our three types of partnerships–governance, donor and knowledge-sharing related partnerships–we achieve interconnected goals: good governance that encourages inclusive and collaborative environment and helps us achieve our mandate, sustainable financing and diversification of donors, and promotion of regional and global expertise that contributes to the relevance and ownership of our learning and networking program. Altogether, and all in their respective ways, partner relations help us steer our work in a way that leads to our value added for our constituency professionals, their teams, and institutions. Our partners’ roles are in many instances overlapping and may cover one or more modes of cooperation with the CEF. Each partnership has its own unique elements; all are driven by the impact that we generate together in pursuing common goals for our constituency. We cooperate with a wide range of organizations and experts: international financial institutions, global and regional international organizations, peer institutions, governments in their capacities of donors and recipients of official development assistance, professional organizations, academia, independent oversight bodies, non-governmental organizations, and individual experts.

Organisation Members

Governance Our governance structure consists of the Governing Board, Advisory Board, Coordinators and Secretariat. The governance bodies have distinct and complementary goals and responsibilities. We believe close cooperation with stakeholders is important for delivery of high-quality learning and networking program. Governing Board Governing Board is a decision making body of the CEF. It confirms the CEF annual report and financial statements, reviews the progress made and other relevant issues. Members of the Board comprise ministers of finance and governors of central banks from the CEF members (Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania and Slovenia). Members of the Board are also currently two representatives of the Advisory Board. The Board is currently chaired by Novica Vuković, Minister of Finance of Montenegro. Advisory Board Advisory Board is an advisory group of experts from our donors and partners. It assists in designing and in coordinating the delivery of activities of the CEF. Up to three representatives of the Advisory Board are members of the Governing Board. The Advisory Board meets annually. The chair of the Advisory Board is Mateja Vraničar Erman from the Slovenian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs.