Twinning is a European Union instrument for institutional cooperation between the public administrations of EU Member States and the beneficiary or partner countries.

The objective of the Twinning Projects is to ensure that the candidate countries observe the best practices in the accession period and to help these countries in implementing the “acquis communautaire” aligned with EU standards and legislation.

The Twinning Project TR-BuildFishPROM is supported by the EU Programme of Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA). This project is implemented by Turkey and Galicia (Spain), and carried out by the Consellería do Mar of the Xunta de Galicia and by the General Directorate of Agrarian Reform on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Republic of Turkey. The project activities cover seminars, trainings, workshops, as well as study visits and internships to EU Member States.

TR-BuildFishPROM started on April 2019 and has an implementation time of 12 months.

Mutual Benefits

• Exchange of experiences and knowledge based on equal-level communication between twinning partners (civil servant to civil servant)
• Implementation of best practices of EU Member State public administration
• Experience in the management of twinning projects
• Complementarity in the case of a consortium
• Alignment with current European legislation
• Knowledge of political administrative systems
• Long-term and structural working-relationships, professional networking, and, therefore, influencing attitude towards a beneficiary country in the EU
• Training and improving professional capacity
• Development and implementation of adapted legislation which is necessary for fulfilment of the obligations on joint Agreements and Action Plans, and for integrating into the European markets
• Changes in organisational practices and culture, improvements in managerial styles, better communication and co-ordination between and within Beneficiary Administrations are valuable bi-products of the process of MS civil servants working closely alongside BA counterparts.