Central European Year
EGTC Conference
21-22 February 2013
Budapest
Participation of non EU countries in EGTC
in the light of the Regulation review
Dirk Peters
European Commission
Directorate Regional and Urban Policy
Team Leader/Senior Legal Officer
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Current EGTC Regulation
• Legal basis: Article 178 TFEU (ex-159) – Cohesion Policy
• Recital (16):
• legislation of a third country or
• agreements between Member
countries so allow
States
and
• Experience: 31 set up; 1 with Serbia (Bánát Triplex
Confinium)
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COM amending proposal
• Additional legal basis: Articles 209 and 2012 TFEU –
• External cooperation
• Article 3a:
• Member State where EGTC will be registered, shall ensure
that conditions are fulfilled and that third country has
approved
• Article 4(3a):
• according to equivalent conditions and procedures to
those laid down in EGTC Regulation or
• in accordance with an agreement between at least one
Member States and a third country
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PRES compromise
• Additional legal basis taken out
• Article 3a:
• Several MSt + 3rd country: carry out territorial cooperation
actions or implement programmes supported by the Union
• One MSt – 3rd country: cross-border or transnational
cooperation or bilateral relations with 3rd country
•
• Article 4(3a): (in consultation with other Member States)
in accordance with
• equivalent conditions and procedures to those laid down
in EGTC Regulation or
• an agreement concluded between at least one Member
States and a third country
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• equivalent conditions and procedures to those laid
down in EGTC Regulation or
Internal law/rules in the third country (a "national" EGTC
Regulation; national implementing rules as in a MSt; ratification
of (i.e. signing up to) the Madrid acquis, when allowing bodies
to join legal bodies set up abroad
• an agreement concluded between at least one Member
States and a third country
Bilateral/trilateral agreements based on the Madrid acquis,
when allowing bodies to join legal bodies set up under the law
of a country being party to that agreement
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Contact data
[email protected]
http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/what/future/proposals_2014
_2020_de.cfm
http://portal.cor.europa.eu/egtc/en-US/Pages/welcome.aspx
http://portal.cor.europa.eu/egtc/en-US/Register/Pages/de.aspx
http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/106-1.htm
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