The EGTC Duero-Douro results from a partnership between Portugal and Spain, involving around 120.000 inhabitants in a 9.000 km²'s area.
This EGTC is a grouping over 170 municipalities in Spain and Portugal, with a broader field of cooperation.
Review of activities in 2016
Tasks
The Duero-Douro EGTC itself is a Cohesion Policy tool. It brings together 200 municipalities from two countries, allowing their administrations to work together in search of cohesion solutions.
The main obstacle in relation to most ETC programmes is that EGTCs are not considered as a partnership institution incorporating two countries. As a result, EGTCs cannot act as sole beneficiary in most of the programmes, although they legally represent two different countries.
Challenges or issues
The EGTC faces challenges every day when it tries to implement projects in two countries with laws and bureaucratic procedures that do not recognise the correspondent operations on the other side of the border. The national administration agencies in our MS are not totally adapted to European regulations, programmes and recommendations, and it becomes difficult to implement projects in two countries when they cannot recognise the other country's authorities and documents.
Budget
€ 1,022,931.60 made available by the contribution of its members (€ 1,000 per member) and via public subsidies
Staff (in FTE)
20 employees from both Spain and Portugal on average
