EIPA study plan

Map the 2021-2027 MFF and the ESIF regulations (Common Provisions Regulation, ERDF, ESF+, JTF, CAP strategic plans) onto the obligations they place on managing authorities and beneficiaries.

Distinguish Recovery and Resilience Facility grant and loan mechanics, milestone/target-based disbursement and verification duties from cohesion-policy reimbursement logic.

Sequence the stages of an EU public procurement procedure above and below the thresholds, and identify the review and remedies routes available to unsuccessful bidders.

Classify a state aid measure against the GBER, the de minimis rules and the notification/standstill obligation, and justify the classification.

Derive the audit and control obligations that follow from shared management versus direct management of EU funds.

Apply procurement thresholds, award criteria and conflict-of-interest rules to three constructed case scenarios and defend the chosen procedure in writing.

Trace the ordinary legislative procedure through Commission proposal, Council working party, European Parliament committee and trilogue, naming each actor's veto point.

Explain how the presidency sets the Council agenda, builds qualified-majority coalitions and drafts compromise texts.

Differentiate delegated and implementing acts, and state who controls each under the Treaty articles and the comitology rules.

Compare the ordinary legislative procedure with the special procedures and with the consultation and consent routes, citing the relevant Treaty bases.

Summarise the better-regulation toolkit: impact assessment, stakeholder consultation, fitness checks, the one-in-one-out approach and REFIT evaluation.

Analyse publicly available Council press releases and general approaches to identify the drafting techniques used to bridge Member State positions.

Outline the negotiation stages of an accession or trade mandate from Council negotiating directives to signature and ratification.

Score an organisation against the nine CAF 2020 criteria, separating enablers from results and recording evidence for each score.

Design a knowledge-management routine covering lessons learned, communities of practice, handover documentation and exit interviews.

Select and justify quality tools (PDCA, stakeholder mapping, benchmarking, process mapping) for given administrative problems.

Convert self-assessment findings into SMART improvement actions with owners, timelines and indicators.

Explain how quality-management cycles link to performance budgeting and to EU funds' enabling conditions.

Map the EU's external financing instruments (NDICI-Global Europe, IPA III, humanitarian aid) onto their legal bases and decision rules.

Explain CFSP and CSDP decision-making: unanimity, the High Representative, the Political and Security Committee and the EEAS role.

Distinguish exclusive, shared and supporting competences, citing one Treaty article for each category.

Assess enlargement and neighbourhood policy conditionality, including the rule-of-law and democratic-backsliding triggers.

Outline the EU's sanctions, trade defence and development-policy instruments and where the Council and Parliament must agree.

Summarise GDPR principles, lawful bases, DPIA triggers, DPO duties and the one-stop-shop cooperation and consistency mechanism.

Outline NIS2 and the Cyber Resilience Act obligations that fall on public-sector entities, including supply-chain and incident-reporting duties.

Apply EU administrative-law principles - proportionality, legitimate expectations, duty to give reasons and access to documents - to constructed decisions.

Summarise the digital-policy package (DSA, DMA, Data Governance Act, Data Act) and the Green Deal's main legislative instruments.

Explain the core AFSJ instruments: Schengen, the Dublin succession rules, Europol and Eurojust mandates, and mutual recognition in criminal matters.

Classify AI systems across the AI Act risk tiers and list the obligations of providers, deployers and importers at each tier.

Explain general-purpose AI model obligations, including transparency, documentation, copyright policy and systemic-risk duties.

Map GDPR–AI Act interactions: DPIA, automated decision-making, data minimisation in training data and the right to explanation.

Describe AI governance and enforcement bodies - the AI Office, AI Board, notified bodies and market surveillance authorities.

Evaluate accountability questions when a public body procures or deploys an AI system, including documentation and human oversight.

Re-drill every subtopic logged as a miss in earlier weeks until closed-book accuracy reaches 85%.

Complete two full-length timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them cold.

Practise cross-domain scenarios, such as an AI procurement funded by the RRF or a cyber-incident response touching GDPR and NIS2.

Consolidate one summary sheet per domain with the ten facts most likely to be tested.