1. ACTION 2.2. TERRITORIAL IMPACT
MARISA GERARDS,
DIRECTOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS,
MINISTRY OF HOUSING, SPATIAL PLANNING AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Marisa Gerards, Director International Affairs,
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, the Netherlands

2. WHAT IS ACTION 2.2. ABOUT? ACTION 2.2.:
Scope the territorial impacts of selected sectoral policies together with sectoral policymakers and jointly analyse the introduction of the assessment of territorial impact in the policy process

3. History ↓ Task force (SLOV, POR, FRA, POL, AUS, UK, EC
Questionnaire sent out to MS and stakeholders +
interesting stakeholder papers related to territorial impact.
Information used for informal discussion paper
Seminar 5th March 2009

4. SEMINAR ON TERRITORIAL IMPACT 5th MARCH 2009
Seminar conclusions, which can be divided into 2 levels:
EU level and
Member States and regional levels
And
A) How to assess and
B) the use of the assessment results

5. EU LEVEL: How to assess Use existing instruments (EU IA)
Focus on categories of territories.
Co-ordination within Commission

6. EU LEVEL: The use of results
1) Increase legislative flexibility
2) Help improve the process and communication with regions, between regions and Member states

7. NATIONAL and REGIONAL Level: HOW to
1) Use instrument like quick scan
2) group together comparable types of regions between Member States.
3) cross sectoral and integrated policy approach at the national level

8. EXAMPLE OF COMPARABLE REGIONS: AIR QUALITY

9. NATIONAL and REGIONAL level: the use of results
Influence EU proposals at an early stage;
Exchange of best practices between different regions in EU
raise awareness at all levels of territorial issues
Look for positive effects of EU policies on regions and communicate about them!

10. And now..? Jointly shared conclusions
Main message: Awareness, communication and instruments
Bring them into practice!
“WE... And in next steps on Territorial Cohesion”