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Central European YearEGTC Conference

21-22 February 2013Budapest

Participation of non EU countries in EGTCin the light of the Regulation review

Dirk PetersEuropean Commission

Directorate Regional and Urban PolicyTeam 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 States and third

countries so allow

• 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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PRES compromise• equivalent conditions and procedures to those laid

down in EGTC Regulation orInternal 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

Dirk.Peters@ec.europa.eu

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