1. MATRIOSCA - AAP
WS 3 – How to use an EGTC for integrated territorial development?
Brussels, 19th June 2008
Tatjana RENER
Republic of Slovenia Government Office
for Local Self-Government and Regional Policy

2. Long-tradition of Co-operation without Co-ordination
Who we are?
MATRIOSCA_AAP
Motives behind..
Future mission MA
JTS
AA WC
CBC MA,JTS
IBs
JTS IB
Long-tradition of Co-operation
without Co-ordination

3. Inputs from MATRIOSCA-AAP: The legal form must follow the content…
Common Strategy – 4 macro-themes
Territorial development and polycentric system
Infrastructure with prominent large-scale impact
Excellence of knowledge networking
Innovative small-business clustering
Proposal for Institutional setting - Draft EGTC Statute
6 Project ideas
Follow-up: through the transformation of Alps Adriatic Working Community – 30 years of tradition

4. The discussion of an EGTC AAP Statute is about the mission
The Objectives and Tasks:
“transnational governance” functions to improve visibility of entire region AAP following the “needs” of the territory:
instead of competition between different regional solutions, political level has to complement among each other in order to become more strategic towards wider Europe
joint projects of transnational importance - considered as the "core process“-make it “more binding”
foster a lively community by providing "meeting places" and permanent technical support –secure integrated approach

5. Membership EGTC AAP
The local/regional authorities and national governments jointly in a single cooperative structure on an asymmetrical basis, this new opportunity opens huge potential for delivering integrated territorial policies
Further members of other sub-national levels will impact to the core mission defined by the Statute?
Third countries: a need for separate framework agreements

6. Legal issues
National provisions for the implementation of 1082/2006 Reg. Adopted by Hungary and Slovenia
Slovenia: Registration procedure according to the private law, tasks limited to the projects supported by EU Structural Funds –
all programme structures of Territorial programmes already in place, therefore transitional period for the mission of an EGTC AAP till 2013

7. Organisation transition: AA WC into an EGTC AAP
Assembly/President
Plenary Session / Presidium
The Commission of Executive
Officers
Technical Secretariat/
Director
General Secretary
Secretariat/
Dislocated/
Focal point
Permanent Staff
Secretariat/
Dislocated/
Focal point
Working
groups
Project groups
Secretariat/
Dislocated/
Project groups
Secretariat/
Dislocated/
Focal point
Organisation transition: AA WC into an EGTC AAP

8. Departments for
External Relations
secretariats
Sectoral Departments
Programme
Authorities
Objective 3
Precondition: reorganising the internal “cohesion”

9. CENTRAL
SEE
NAT-REG

10. The added value of an EGTC AAP?
Committment of partners to the shared vision of the territory
The balance between the scale/number of partners needed for the effective “critical mass” – in order to justify strategic concentration/integrated approach
Increased cohesion and visibility within EU
Co-ordinated response to globalisation challenges

11. Open issues of an EGTC AAP?
Which territory is the most appropriate?
Each member needs first it’s own strategy and changes of it’s political environment, national cohesion of tasks, responsibilities for the territorial cohesion and
guarantee the support by approriate competent representatives in different organs, to be reorganised..

12. The future mission
of an EGTC AAP
is to plan..to organise..
to implement…

13. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Government Office for Local Self-Government and Regional policy Tatjana RENER, SI-6222 Štanjel, Slovenia Tel. (+386) , Fax (+386)