The objective of the 11th Summit of the Grande Région, held on 17July 2009 under the presidency of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, was to further strengthen the Grande Région as a common territory. In the Common Declaration of that Summit, the partners of the trans-border cooperation officially agreed on the need to establish an efficient working tool that would ensure the continuity of all activities carried out by the presidencies of the summits.
The 11th Summit thereby created a structure aiming to optimize the general functioning of the institutional set-up, respond to the need to find a coherent arrangement, increase the operational simplifications and ensure a sustainable efficiency of the activities carried out by the cooperation. This structure aimed to be stable to implement working programmes in a context of while rotating presidencies.
The participants at the Summit have come to the conclusion that the most adequate solution for achieving these objectives is the creation of an EGTC.
The EGTC constitutes the administrative organ for carrying out the decisions taken by the Summit of the executive leaders of the Grande Région.
Review of activities in 2016
Tasks
The EGTC is the administrative support organ of the institutional cooperation between its members. It follows and supports the activities of the summit and the working groups. The grouping ensures the continuity between each political presidency and is in charge of communication about the activities of the summit.
This EGTC does not have the mission to lead or participate in European funding programmes. It has no operational budget.
Regarding the development of joint strategies, the working groups and working communities respond to a political mandate developed for a period of two years in the political "common declaration". On this basis, the working groups develop their work programme, which pursues the exchange of best practices and if possible the definition of common strategies.
The objectives of the Strategy Europe 2020 are part of the political strategy of cooperation.
Budget
€ 600,000
Staff (in FTE)
Staff is composed of a manager, a project officer, an interpreter/translator and a secretary. The EGTC has a rotative directorate, which follows the political presidency of the Greater Region.
