Azerbaijan and SIGMA

Status: EU Neighbourhood country
Capital City: Baku
Population: 9.8 million
Currency: Azerbaijanian manat (AZN)

A Partnership and Co-operation Agreement with the EU came into effect on 1 July 1999 and remains in place. A European Neighbourhood Policy Action Plan was adopted in 2006 and Azerbaijan is one of the six partners in the EU’s Eastern Partnership.

SIGMA, the EC and the Azerbaijani authorities agreed a work programme in January 2021 that gives priority to co-operating with:

• The State Examination Center on developing the recruitment system and for drafting guidelines on internal control.

• The State Service for Anti-monopoly Policy and Consumer Rights Protection on further developing the operational functioning of the procurement system, including electronic procurement.

• The competent authorities for public administration reforms on reviewing their initiatives.

Publications

Related links

Events

Country co-ordination

The Principles of Public Administration for European Neighbourhood Policy countries

Publications in Azerbaijani

More publications

EU relations with Azerbaijan

EU Delegation to Azerbaijan

Programme Administration Office

News on Azerbaijan

EU Neighbours East

More countries

Events calendar

Piotr-Nils Gorecki

Country manager
piotr-nils.gorecki@oecd.org
Tel: +33 1 45 24 79 93

Maria Dolzhenko

Project Co-ordinator
maria.dolzhenko@oecd.org
Tel: +33 1 45 24 13 01