The European Union Affairs Committee discusses cross-border funding of non-profit associations at a public sitting

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Chair of the European Union Affairs Committee Liisa Pakosta said that the proposals of the European Commission did not suit Estonia. “In our opinion, creating a new bureaucratic form of association will not help make the third sector in Estonia stronger. I consider involving of interest groups very important, and today we will discuss together whether the proposal for a directive is acceptable or not,” she explained.

“The creation of the new form of association proposed by the European Commission also requires significant resources and the cost is not reasonable when compared to the benefits,” she pointed out, adding that similar initiatives had been submitted in the past and they had not been popular. Pakosta noted that it would be better to facilitate the activities of existing associations by creating conditions similar to those for companies in the EU, such as rules on mutual recognition, harmonisation of registration principles and information disclosure requirements, as well as data exchange between registers.

Advisers of the Private Law Division of the Legislative Policy Department of the Ministry of Justice Marget Pae and Külliki Feldman, Adviser on better legislative drafting and EU single digital gateway Stina Avvo and Cross-Border Services Adviser Svetlana Štšur from the Entrepreneurship Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Executive Director of Network of Estonian Nonprofit Organizations Triin Toomesaar and Executive Director of the National Foundation of Civil Society Anneli Roosalu have been invited to attend the public sitting of the European Union Affairs Committee.

Public video sitting of the European Union Affairs Committee starts at 1.30 p.m. and it will be streamed online.

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Source: Parliament of Estonia