What is a Territorial Pact for Europe 2020?
A Territorial Pact for Europe 2020 is an agreement between a country’s tiers of government (local, regional, national). Parties signing up to a Territorial Pact commit to coordinate and synchronise their policy agendas in order to focus their actions and financial resources on the Europe 2020 Strategy goals and targets.

What are the possible objectives of a Territorial Pact?
A Territorial Pact should allow a country’s national, regional and local governments to draft and implement the Europe 2020 National Reform Programme in partnership and to monitor its progress. To this end, a Territorial Pact should aim at:

• setting national and possibly regional targets, with recourse, when necessary, to indicators and targets other than GDP;
• implementing one or several flagship initiatives;
• identifying obstacles to the achievement of the targets at national level.

Why this webpage?
This webpage has been created by the CoR's Europe 2020 Monitoring Platform:

• to monitor how the EU Europe 2020 strategy is designed and implemented on the ground through the Territorial Pacts, as proposed by the Committee of the Regions;
• to collect experiences on the Pacts, for subsequent inclusion as a summary in the CoR Monitoring Report on Europe 2020 in December every year;
• to help publicise the proposal set out in the Territorial Pacts on achieving  the Europe 2020 goals, adapting it to various countries and socio-economic contexts.

For more information about territorial pacts and partnership contracts, go to FAQs to learn all about the Committee of the Regions' proposal for how local, regional and national authorities can design and implement the Europe 2020 strategy in partnership.

Examples collected here come from different EU Member States and involve (at least two) different tiers of government. They are very different from one another, reflecting actual differences between countries both in their socio-economic starting points and in the attributions of the different tiers of government.