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European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Applicability to cooperation with Partner countries INTERACT ENPI Annual Co

European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Applicability to cooperation with Partner countries INTERACT ENPI Annual Conference 10-11 December 2009 | Rome. What is EGTC. European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (Reg. 1082/2006)

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European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Applicability to cooperation with Partner countries INTERACT ENPI Annual Co

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  1. European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation Applicability to cooperation with Partner countries INTERACT ENPI Annual Conference 10-11 December 2009 | Rome

  2. What is EGTC • European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (Reg. 1082/2006) • A grouping: at least 2 public members from at least 2 Member States • With a joint objective, within the field of competence of each member (smallest common denominator to be found)

  3. What can EGTC do

  4. Advantages of EGTC • EGTC offers a legal personality • Instrument for multi-level governance (local to national) • Broad scope: EGTC can implement from specific projects to integrated territorial strategies; from CBC to interregional • ***Transfer of this model to EU external borders with Partner countries has to be kept in mind (as e.g. Euroregions)

  5. Participation of third countries • Participation of third countries possible if: • The third country adopts national legislation to create an instrument similar or close to the EGTC; OR/AND • The third country signs agreements with EU Member States to enable their authorities to participate in EGTCs • Participation also subject to national provisions of concerned MS • EGTC must include at least members from two MSs – Bilateral EGTCs (MS-Non MS) not allowed

  6. Third countries – MS provisions • Few national provisions specify third countries´ possible participation (e.g. Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania) • In some cases it is excluded • In some cases there is no mention • In some cases it is restricted to some types of third countries: e.g. France – neighbouring countries members of the Council of Europe

  7. Third countries – CoE members • Third countries Members of the Council of Europe: • New instrument - Euroregional Cooperation Grouping(ECG) • Protocol No. 3 to the European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or Authorities concerning Euroregional Co-operation Groupings (ECGs) available for ratification since November 2009

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