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European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013
"More growth and jobs for all regions and cities of the European Union." This is the message which is at the heart of the programming period 2007-2013 for Cohesion Policy and its instruments. The European Territorial Cooperation will encompass cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation.
In comparison to the programming period 2000-2006 there are three major policy changes for Cohesion and Regional Policy. They are:
- A clearer focus on the renewed growth and jobs agenda
- A new architecture ensuring a modernised and more strategic approach
- Simpler and more efficient operations as, for example, the number of instruments has been cut from six to three; the new proportionality principle ensures less bureaucracy, the application of national eligibility rules rather than Community ones and that the Member States are ased for more responsibility and transparency of the funds' management.
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