Council of Europe

11th European Conference of the Electoral Management Bodies

26-27 June 2014, Helsinki, Finland

Mark your calendar and join us at the annual electoral event co-organised by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, the Ministry of Justice, the Parliament and the National Audit Office of Finland.

The 11th European Conference of Electoral Management Bodies is addressing the following topic:

► I. First plenary session: Administrative resources in context: Legal environment or self-regulation?

► II. Second plenary session: Practice – Recurring cases of misuses of administrative resources during electoral processes – Assessing the damages

► III. Third plenary session: Preventing and combating the misuse of administrative resources, a key issue to reinforce confidence in democratic electoral processes

► Closing plenary session: Towards guidelines – Good practice, sanctions and looking for operational solutions aimed at improving law, self-regulation and practice

► Draft programme

► List of Participants

► Synopsis / Conclusions

► Reports of the Conference

► Date of the conference: 26/27 June 2014

► Conference registration process: upon request (see contact persons below)

► Conference venue: Pikkuparlamentti, Arkadiankatu 3, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Entrance of the Conference is through the "Visitor's centre".

► Working languages: English – French – Russian – Finnish

► Accomodation, suggested hotels:

Sokos hotels

Scandic Simonkenttä

► Airport-city center transportation:

Useful information about Bus & taxi services at Helsinki Airport

Public transport journey planner website

The central railway station is within walking distance to the hotels in the city centre.

For participants travelling from Sweden, Russia or Estonia using ferryboats, all the harbours have good public transportation connections to the centre of the city (bus, tram, taxicab).

► Report on the misuse of administrative resources during electoral processes (English, French, Russian)

► Venice Commission

► Ministry of Justice of Finland

► Elections website of the Ministry of Justice of Finland

► National Audit Office of Finland

► Facebook page of the event

► Facebook page of the Electoral Management Bodies

► Mr Jussi AALTONEN, Ministry of Justice of Finland, jussi.aaltonen/at/om.fi

► Mr Gaël MARTIN-MICALLEF, Venice Commission, gael.martin-micallef/at/coe.int