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Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on “Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU border regions” currently under discussion.

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    Fabian Gal
    13 April 2018
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The European Committee of the Regions will discuss a draft of the opinion on "Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU border regions" on 27 April in its COTER commission and on 4-5 July in its Plenary session.

The opinion comments on the 10 proposals outlined in the EC Communication with the same title and proposes concrete further actions. The document also puts forward a number of practical simplification measures to improve the implementation of European Territorial Cooperation programmes.

Together with the rapporteur, Mr Adam Karacsony we would be happy to receive any feedback and comments on the document to feed into the adoption process.

The document can be found in all EU languages following the below link.

http://cor.europa.eu/en/activities/opinions/pages/opinion-factsheet.aspx?OpinionNumber=CDR%206119/2017

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Martin Guilllermo Ramirez's picture
Martin Guilller...,
30/04/2018 17:26

Excellent! Once again the Committee of the Regions comes with a very timely Opinion. As Nathalie Verschelde already mentioned, we've closed today b-Solutions call for proposals, where we have received some promising ideas to work legal and administrative obstacles to CBC out.

We will post most relevant information and findings, and will report progress. In the meantime, we will also inform Mr János Ádam Karácsony, as Rapporteur of this CoR's Opinion, on first findings in order to be taken into account in the final version to be voted in July.

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Nathalie VERSCHELDE's picture
Nathalie VERSCHELDE,
30/04/2018 17:04

COTER discussion on the Communication was very positive.  There is unanimous support for the work done by the Commission on this and great expectations for the future.  Among the interesting ideas : (1) the revision of telephone call costs in cross-border regions as many calls of a local nature by distance are charged at international rates and (2) the need to consider a new legal instrument to facilitate the implementation of cross-border projects or initiatives using a single set of rules.

DG REGIO continues to work on implementing the Communication's action plan.  Today is actually the deadline for submitting pilot projects on the resolution of border obstacles.  Hopefully, we will see interesting proposals with great potential for border regions.

Looking forward to the CoR plenary session beginning of July.

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