1. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 1 Welcome to the Committee of the Regions European Union The EGTC Platform of the Committee of the Regions Conference The EGTC and multi-level governance Gödöllö, Hungary, 22-23 March 2011 Alfonso ALCOLEA Committee of the Regions

2. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 2 1. Engagement of the CoR in the EGTC 2. The CoR opinion 3. The EGTC Platform 4. Getting involved! Index

3. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 3 3 Engagement of the CoR Legal basis:  Treaties (art. 306 TFEU) Consultative remit in cross-border cooperation  Regulation (EC) 1082/2006, Art. 5 The new EGTCs must notify the CoR Political action:  The EGTC is strategic for the CoR  Inter-institutional cooperation  Political proactiveness

4. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 4 Engagement of the CoR  Political impulse 2 own-initiative opinions about EGTC, 2008 and 2011  Sharing experience Expert Group, then EGTC Platform  Information and debate Joint consultation in 2010 Workshops and stands during the Open Days 3 studies and annual report since 2010  Public registry of EGTC Art. 5 of Regulation (EC) 1082/2006

5. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 55 The CoR opinion on EGTC New perspectives for the revision of the EGTC Regulation Own initiative opinion CdR 100/2010 adopted in plenary session the 27 January 2011. Rapporteur: Mr Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, (ES/EPP) President of Galicia. Continuity: Recalls the opinion made by Ms Mercedes Bresso (IT/PES) in 2008. Stakehoders’ forum the 13/07/2010 and large consultation launched in Cáceres on 3 May 2010 Debated in 3 sessions of the Commission of territorial cohesion (COTER) of the CoR. Multilateral and bilateral dialogue.

6. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 6 New scenario: Lisbon Treaty, debate on the new financial perspectives. Importance of the EGTC: For ETC programmes and projects For the Strategy Europe 2020 For the Multilevel Governance For the Single Market Support of the EGTC as ‘preferential tool for co- operation’ The CoR opinion on EGTC

7. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 7 Contents: Substantial measures: Legal status; harmonisation of national regimes; staff; participation of private entities; clarifications. Procedural measures: Reduction of the delays, hearing the promoters of the EGTC; common act for autorisation; publication in section C of the OJEU. Financial measures: Consider the EGTC automatically as transnational partnership; suppress obsolete methodes of management; autonomous pole of cooperation. Participation of entities from Third countries on the basis of Title V of the Treaty; allow 1+1 bilateral EGTCs. The CoR opinion on EGTC

8. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 8 Its it integrated by all the EGTCs existing, the EGTCs in constitution, experts and different organisations of support Open to other cross-border structures. Launched the 28 January 2011 in Brussels Online forum www.cor.europa.eu/egtc Contact: egtc@cor.europa.eu The EGTC Platform

9. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 9 Mission Legislative monitoring  What’s going on? Peer exchange of experiences, advice and practices  How do we do it? Dissemination and visibility of the EGTC  What can we do? Explore the opportunities and challenges of the EGTC  How to do it better? Contribute to the consultative works of the CoR providing factual input about cross-border aspects of the EU legislation and policies  What happens at cross-border level? The EGTC Platform - Mission

10. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 10 The EGTC Platform – Launching conference 27 January  Lille 28 January  Brussels More than 200 participants

11. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 11 The EGTC Platform - Online forum

12. Click to edit Master title style Click to edit Master text styles Second level Third level Fourth level Fifth level 12 Thank you! Köszönom! Committee of the Regions Direction of consultative works Alfonso Alcolea Martínez Administrator EGTC & territorial cooperation URL: www.cor.europa.eu/egtc E-mail: egtc@cor.europa.eu Twitter: @EGTCPlatform FB group: EGTC