EGTC monitoring report 2015 : implementing the new territorial cooperation programmes

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 2015 and late 2014 and builds on the findings from the earlier EGTC Monitoring Reports of 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 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 2015, 60 EGTCs were established in total, which include more than 800 national, local and regional authorities from 20 different Member States and from Ukraine. Out of these existing EGTCs, it has not been possible to update information on the developments in the year of 2015 for fourteen Groupings. Another 14 Groupings are currently in the pipeline, one of them including non-EU countries: the EGTC EUCOR - The European Campus, with participation of Switzerland.