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Central European Year EGTC Conference 21-22 February 2013 Budapest

Central European Year EGTC Conference 21-22 February 2013 Budapest Outlooks –  EGTC as programme manager, provider of cross-border common services and applicant. Dirk Peters European Commission Directorate Regional and Urban Policy Team Leader/Senior Legal Officer. Programme manager.

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Central European Year EGTC Conference 21-22 February 2013 Budapest

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  1. Central European Year EGTC Conference 21-22 February 2013 Budapest Outlooks – EGTC as programme manager,provider of cross-border common services and applicant Dirk Peters European Commission Directorate Regional and Urban PolicyTeam Leader/Senior Legal Officer

  2. Programme manager Article 21 ETC EGTC manages a programme or only a PART thereof Article 10 ETC As legal body EGTC manages an Integrated Territorial Investment [next slide] Particular potential for triangles to implement a strategy under several bilateral CBC programmes Article 10 ETC EGTC as MA empowered to carry out FLC in whole programme area!

  3. Integrated territorial investment • Article 99 CPR (3 + 2 Funds!) • Urban development strategy orother territorial strategy (or ESF pact) • More than one "priority axes" of one or more OPs • “Intermediate body” to carry out management and implementation legal body or an EGTC (2 countries) • CSF: inside ITI, part canbe CLLD

  4. Provider of cross-bordercommon services Article 3 EGTC Membership extended to "public undertakings" alongside public similar bodies, thus opening to energy, water and transport. EP and CoR are also pushing to allow for undertakings managing Services of General Economic Interest (SGEI). However, strictly private entities remain excluded (companies, individuals, etc.) Article 2 CPR Expenditure of EGTC always considered public expenditure

  5. "Applicant" – beneficiary Article 11(3) ETC EGTC = single beneficiary for ETC projects, where they fulfil the cooperation criteria Article 8 ETC EGTC = beneficiary of a Joint Action Plan EGTC may draw from different funds and programmes (e.g. to implement a cross-border employment basin, combing ETC and regional ESF programmes)

  6. Joint action plan • Article 93 CPR (3 Funds) • Outputs and result-based to achieve specific objectives • project or group of projects; • min EUR 5 mill or 20% of public support of OP • One JAP per MSt min EUR 5 mill of public support • No infrastructures! • COM Decision • If EGTC  “Steering committee” (Art. 8 ETC)

  7. Improvements inside EGTC Regulation • Enlarged scope (outsideCohesion Policy) • Procedure (tacit approval) • Simplified procedure for adhesion of new members • Rules on activities and [staff] • Third countries

  8. Improvements outside EGTC Regulation • ITI; JAP; (CLLD) • Expenditure always public • Single beneficiary • If managing authority: controls • Managing PART of an OP • Public Procurement Directives

  9. What is cooperation about? • "We are Europeans by virtue of a complex interior activity of the brain, the flexible coping with our inner paradoxes, the pleasure we get from multiformity, the conversion of the diversity of our roles into creative tension; • we are Europeans in our appreciating or intellectually sympathizing with different cultures, and in our confidence of not losing ourselves in so doing." • GyörgyKonrád

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