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N°7 – The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC)

May 2008

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The EGTC is the instrument of European territorial cooperation. The EGTC has been introduced notably to manage European territorial cooperation projects and programmes. The use of the EGTC aims to promote cross-border, but also transnational and interregional, cooperation actions on the internal and external borders of the territory of the European Union, in order to reinforce economic and social cohesion. It provides a novel framework for cooperation actions which could not be based on the legal framework of cross-border cooperation.

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