Institution of EGTC in the period of 20142020: New, innovative perspectives of the
operation of the EGTCs
CETC-EGTC Experiences
Krzysztof Żarna
Director
Territorial Cooperation Department of Marshal’s Office of the West Pomerania Region
Budapest, 7th March 2014
CETC -EGTC
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transport corridor providing a development strip
between the Baltic and Adriatic;
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existing and developing spatial structure which not
only comprises the transportation infrastructure;
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way
to
stimulating
dynamize
the
manufacturing
development
of
processes
tourism
and
increasing co-operation capacity and business
ventures;
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important
link
of
global
chain
of
economic
relations;
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links between many cities and regions;
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liaison generating strategic benefits for Europe.
CETC-EGTC AND FUTURE
CHALLENGES OF UE
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Co-modality;
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Environment;
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Innovation;
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Economic growth;
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Regional cohesion.
©Wilhelm Borchert GmbH (2013)
DEVELOPMENT OF CETC – EGTC VISION
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Create efficient interfaces between the national
transport networks.
Initiative
CETCROUTE65
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Pursue a network of green and efficient multimodal
transport corridors.
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Establish sufficient multi-level governance mechanisms.
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Apply an incremental, need based approach to
infrastructure investments.
EU projects:
SoNorA
TransGovernence
SETA
others
NEW ASPECTS OF THE EGTC REGULATION
• We can expect increased flexibility in establishing new groupings and higher
transparency in legal provisions.
• The EGTC may become an adequate model for institutionalised collaboration in
transport area, managing of the transport corridors.
• The EGTC mechanism should also be used to fulfil the investment objective of the
new Cohesion Policy.
• There will be a new capability of avoiding the formation of administrative barriers.
The barriers arising from different national legal systems.
NEW ASPECTS OF THE EGTC REGULATION
• The EGTC instrument will be now more visible. Good practices and wider public
appearance of network-EGTCs can also influence the political will.
• As the existing structures of territorial cooperation programme are solid, this
mechanism will not be so often used to manage programs as we all expected.
• Financial support for EGTCs has not been introduced in the new regulations and
this issue requires further discussion.
• The EGTC can be also a great mechanism to contribute to the development of the
European macro-regions.
NEW ASPECTS OF THE EGTC REGULATION
Where there is a political will of national, regional and
local stakeholders, there is a way to accomplish the
ambitious plans and achieve the success on the
development of a EGTC mechanism.
Thank you for attention!
Krzysztof Żarna
Director
Territorial Cooperation Department of Marshal’s Office of the West Pomerania Region
70-540 Szczecin, Korsarzy 34
phone: +48 91 44 67 138
fax: +48 91 44 67 171
e-mail: kzarna@wzp.pl