Established as from February 2007, interregional groups are platforms to exchange views and create new ideas between local and regional authorities in the Member States and beyond.
Adriatic-Ionian
- Created in January 2013
- Missions :
- exchange between the CoR members, the Adriatic Ionian as well as EU and non-EU countries authorities of the eight States involved in the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR)
- contribute as a key player in the multi-level governance to the shaping, follow-up and implementation of the EUSAIR and of its Action Plan
- tackle common challenges effectively and to affirm the region's identity and full potential
- create synergies with the existing strategies of the Baltic and of the Danube regions
- Chair: Paolo Di Laura Frattura (IT/PES)
This interregional group is connected to a
Macroregional strategy. Those provide a framework endorsed by the European Council to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion in a specific geographical area (also: macro-regions).
Contact:
Intergroup Secretariat
Francesco Cocco
http://www.adriatic-ionian.eu/about-eusair/
Alpine Macroregion
- Created in June 2014
- Missions:
- contribute according to the multi-level governance to the shaping, follow-up and the implementation of the alpine macroregional strategy and of its Action Plan
- improve the competitiveness, ensuring the connectivity of the Alpine territory and to make the Alpine Region environmentally sustainable and attractive
- maximize synergies and exchange of good practices with the existing macroregional strategies
- Chair: Franco Iacop (IT/PES)
This interregional group is connected to a
Macroregional strategy. Those provide a framework endorsed by the European Council to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion in a specific geographical area (also: macro-regions).
Contact:
Intergroup Secretariat
Raffaella Viviani
raffaella.viviani@regione.fvg.it
Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region
Rue du Commerce 49 - 1000 Bruxelles
Tel.: +32 (0)2 500 88 40
http://www.alpine-region.eu/
Baltic sea regions
- Created in February 2008
- Missions:
- reflect within the CoR the cooperation between Baltic Sea regions and to contribute to the development of these regions in the broadest sense
- explore the impact of various EU policies, particularly as regards the economic and environmental dimension of maritime policy
- contribute to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (adopted in June 2009)
- Chair: Pauliina Haijanen (FI/EPP)
This interregional group is connected to a
Macroregional strategy. Those provide a framework endorsed by the European Council to enhance economic, social and territorial cohesion in a specific geographical area (also: macro-regions).
Contact:
Intergroup secretariat
Ms Åsa Bjering
Executive Secretary CPMR Baltic Sea Commission
Tel.: +32 470 69 62 66
Brexit
- Created in January 2018
- Missions:
- enable the exchange of views and learn about the consequences of Brexit after the United Kingdom leaves the EU
- share ideas on solutions to be put in place to support the local and regional authorities most affected and adapt the respective regional economies
- identify shared projects which could be developed by local and regional authorities after Brexit
- contribute to the Committee's debate with a view to obtaining an overall picture of the impact of Brexit for local and regional authorities
- Chair: François Decoster (FR/ALDE)
Contact:
Intergroup secretariat
Jennifer Rousselle
jennifer-rousselle@ville-saint-omer.fr
Ville de Saint Omer
Tel.: +33 (0)3 21 98 66 53
Carpathians
- Created in February 2016
- Missions:
- investigate the possibility of creating a Carpathian macro-regional strategy
- organise debates, actions and projects with representatives of local authorities of the two non-EU countries sharing the Carpathian arc (Serbia and Ukraine), with the aim of including them in a future "macro-regional strategy for the Carpathian area"
- emphasise the role of local and regional governments in order to support sustainable development
- Chair: Wladyslaw Ortyl (PL/ECR)
Contact:
Intergroup secretariat
Representation of the Podkarpackie Region to Brussels
Avenue de Tervueren 48
1040 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 738 02 23
bruksela@podkarpackie.pl
Cross-border Cooperation
- Created in July 2015
- Missions:
- influence EU legislation by analysing CoR opinions and making sure that cross-border solutions are included
- contribute to the discussion on the future of the cohesion policy
- identify cross-border topics to be addressed at EU level
- make suggestions for events of the EGTC platform, EABR, European Week of Regions and Cities
- Chair: Pavel Branda, (CZ/ECR)
Contact:Intergroup Secretariat
Marek Polach
Marek.Polach@praha.euDelegation of Prague to the EU
Avenue Palmerston 16
1000 Bruxelles
Tel: +32 2 230 15 84
Future of the Automotive Industry
- Created in 2009
- Missions:
- defend the interests of the territories with an important automotive industry, and to find common solutions to the challenges they face
- fostering contacts among the industrial associations of the different participating regions
- Chair: Barbara Eibinger-Miedl (AT/EPP)
Contact:
Intergroup Secretariat
Claudia Suppan
Steiermark office in Brussels
Avenue de Tervueren 82
1040 Etterbeek
Tel.: +32 (0)2 7320361
automotive@stmk.gv.at
Health
- Created in November 2010
- Missions:
- facilitate a constructive dialogue with the European Commission and the European Parliament and thus reinforcing the work of local and regional health networks on officer level (i.e. EUREGHA, ENRICH)
- discuss, among other things, the use of structural funds, the health work force, patient mobility, nutrition and obesity and health inequalities indicators
- Chair: Birgitta Sacrédeus (SE/EPP)
Contact:
EUREGHA Secretariat
Rue du Luxembourg, 3
1000 Bruxelles
secretariat@euregha.net
Insular regions
- Created in April 2015, suspended in May 2017 and reactivated in December 2018
- Missions:
- tackle the common issues in order to cooperate and find development strategies in the tourist and cultural field, as well as in the industrial, agricultural, health, energy and education sectors;
- help the implementation of the deliberations of the European Committee of the Regions and European Parliament concerning islands;
- proactive action and cooperation in the area of migration, which affects more than ever the island lands where people flee from war and poverty are looking for a chance of survival and hope
- Chair: Gaetano Armao (IT/EPP)
Contact :
Intergroup secretariat
Leonardo di Giovanna
Tel: +32 026392574
leonardo.digiovanna@regione.sicilia.it
Less developed regions
- Created in March 2015
- Missions:
- collaborate in the preparation of position papers as well as amendments and reports on issues of particular relevance
- monitor the EU's economic, social and territorial cohesion policy
- collaborate in the development of European projects and favour the attraction of new investments to those regions
- Chair: Tadeusz Truskolaski (PL/EA)
Contact:Intergroup secretariat
Michal Szczepura
Regional Office of the Podlaskie Voivodeship in Brussels
Avenue de Tervueren 48
1040 Bruxelles
Tel.: +32 2 738 02 22
Fax +32 2 735 33 20
info@podlaskie.euNord Stream 2
- Created in December 2017
- Missions:
- discuss the environmental impact of the pipeline
- present regional development from the viewpoint of local entrepreneurs and communities
- integrate the regional dimension of energy security
- focus particularly on the European Neighbourhood Policy and other external relations
- Chair: Olgierd Geblewicz(PL/EPP)
Contact:Intergroup secretariat
Sebastian Gojdz
sgojdz@wzp.plRegional Office of Westpomeranian Region in Brussels
Rue Montoyer 31
1000 Bruxelles
Tel.: +32 24149604
Regions with legislative power
- Created in June 2007
- Missions:
- take the initiative in policy areas such as better regulation and governance
- advance the rights of the subnational level in implementing
subsidiarity
- offer to CoR members the professional experience and expertise of regions with legislative power
- focus on multi-level governance in Europe and the implementation of the subsidiarity and proportionality principles
- exchange best practice on subsidiarity monitoring mechanisms
- Chair: Jean-François Istasse (BE/PES)
Contact:
Intergroup Secretariat
Raffaella Viviani
Raffaelle.viviani@regione.fvg.it
Saar-Lor-Lux
- Created in June 2007
- Missions:
- to coordinate the EU policy concerns and points of view of the CoR members of these regions to jointly address them within the relevant CoR bodies
- to develop its own EU policy initiatives on issues specific to the region and to push for their implementation
- Chair: Karl-Heinz Lambertz (BE/PES)
Contact:
Intergroup secretariat