The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), Instrument of Cross-border Cooperation. Case Study: Romania - Hungary
The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), Instrument of Cross-border Cooperation. Case Study: Romania - Hungary

Summary/Abstract: The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC), as an instrument of cross-border cooperation does not create an intermediary administrative level and its members do not totally transfer their competences to a group, only those necessary for applying the assumed mission. Also, the EGTC has the goal of eliminating a discriminatory reality inside the European Union on the Internal Market, defined threw the diverse report of facilitating the cooperation betwen two partners from different countries, towards the cooperation between two partners from the same country. EGTC does not eliminate all the exixting legal cooperation forms, but comes with a new alternative, truly more consolidated. Besides the lack of law protection of the concept of Euro-region, the EGTC one is officially recognized by the European Commission as “label”, protected by the European Union.

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