5. Stresses that multi-level governance allows better exploitation of the potential of territorial cooperation thanks to the relations developed among private and public actors across borders; urges those Member States which have not yet done so to adopt as soon as possible the necessary provisions allowing the setting up of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation; recommends that the Commission promote exchange of information between the EGTCs already created and those in the process of being set up in the framework of existing programmes; congratulates the Committee of the Regions on t ...[+++]he quality of its work on EGTCs and calls for its available instruments, in particular its Lisbon Monitoring Platform and its Subsidiarity Monitoring Network, to be used to promote the exchange of best practices between regions and Member States with a view to the joint identification and determination of objectives, subsequent planning actions, and, finally, a comparative evaluation of the outcomes of cohesion policy;

5. Stresses that multi-level governance allows better exploitation of the potential of territorial cooperation thanks to the relations developed among private and public actors across borders; urges those Member States which have not yet done so to adopt as soon as possible the necessary provisions allowing the setting up of European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation; recommends that the Commission promote exchange of information between the EGTCs already created and those in the process of being set up in the framework of existing programmes; congratulates the Committee of the Regions on t ...[+++]he quality of its work on EGTCs and calls for its available instruments, in particular its Lisbon Monitoring Platform and its Subsidiarity Monitoring Network, to be used to promote the exchange of best practices between regions and Member States with a view to the joint identification and determination of objectives, subsequent planning actions, and, finally, a comparative evaluation of the outcomes of cohesion policy;

Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1638/2006 requires that the Commission adopt implementing rules laying down specific provisions for the implementation of Title III ‘Cross-border Cooperation’ and that the matters covered by the implementing rules include issues such as the rate of co-financing, preparation of joint operational programmes, the designation and functions of the joint authorities, the role and function of the joint monitoring and selection committees and of the joint secretariat, eligibility of expenditure, joint project ...[+++]selection, the preparatory phase, technical and financial management of Community assistance, financial control and audit, monitoring and evaluation, visibility and information activities for potential beneficiaries.

At the sitting of 13 June 2002 the President of Parliament announced that the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy had been authorised to draw up an own-initiative report, pursuant to Rule 163 of the Rules of Procedure, on the state of research in applicant countries and measures needed to ensure their full participation in the framework programme and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, the Comm ...[+++]ittee on Budgets, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism had been asked for their opinions.

We therefore feel that we should refer to the terms as they stand in the policy paper, namely the ‘networking of capabilities for excellence in the public sector (in particular university teams) and private-sector centres of excellence, which would be achieved with long-term joint programmes of activities’. This is therefore a bottom-up operation to be carried out not with hyper-centres, but with different teams working as part of a network.

23. Welcomes the creation of a Commission Committee for Employment and Labour Market Policy that would work in tandem with the Economic Policy Committee and would consult the Standing Committee on Employment on all labour market policy issues in order to contribute to the development and launching of a common strategy for employment, using joint indicators which will im ...[+++]prove the analysis, coordination and interchange of information between national employment policies;