EGTC monitoring report 2014 : implementing the Strategy Europe 2020

The Committee of the Regions regularly publishes a monitoring report on the development of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation - EGTC as the European legal entity for cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of public bodies. The present report analyses the latest developments from 2014 and late 2013 and builds on the findings from the earlier EGTC Monitoring Reports of 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 as well as previous studies. The objective of the EGTC Monitoring Report is to provide an overview of the current state of play of all EGTCs in the European Union. By the end of 2014, 50 EGTCs were established in total, which include more than 800 national, local and regional authorities from 20 different Member States. Out of these existing EGTCs, it has not been possible to update the information on the developments in the year of 2014 for eleven Groupings. Furthermore the EGTC Karst Bodva gives - according to information from the Hungarian Foreign Ministry - some thoughts on joining another EGTC from the region and to cancel the current Grouping. Also from the Hungarian Ministry we gained knowledge about Sajó - Rima stopping their work and that the Grouping soon should be cancelled. Another 16 Groupings are currently in the pipeline.