European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or Authorities | Madrid Convention | Madrid Outline Convention

Ibero-American Convention Relating to Air Navigation [ Madrid Convention ]

Allied Land Component Command Headquarters Madrid [ CC-Land HQ Madrid | Allied Land Component Command Headquarters, Madrid ]

Allied Land Component Command Madrid [ CC-Land Madrid | Allied Land Component Command, Madrid ]

Madrid Protocol | Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

Concluding Document of Madrid | Madrid Concluding Document

international convention [ multilateral convention ]

ACP-EU Convention [ ACP-EC Convention ]

agreement (EU) [ EC agreement | EC third country convention | European Union agreement | EU-third country agreement | international agreement (EU) ]

The main projects were the following: upgrading to 200/220 kph the Mediterranean Corridor (Valencia-Tarragona-Barcelona) and the Madrid-Valencia Corridor, the modernisation of the conventional rail system and the building of the new high-speed line Madrid-Barcelona-French Border.

As Regulation (EC) No 1082/2006 cannot apply in third countries, the Member State where the proposed registered office of the EGTC is to be located should, when approving the participation of prospective members from third countries, established under the law of those third countries, satisfy itself, in consultation with those Member States under whose laws other prospective members of the EGTC have been established, that the third countries have applied equivalent conditions and procedures to those laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1082/2006 or acted in accordance with international bilateral or multilateral agreements concluded between Member States of the Council of Europe, whether or not they are also Member States of the Union, based on the Europea ...[+++]n Outline Convention on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or Authorities, signed in Madrid on 21 May 1980, and the additional Protocols adopted pursuant thereto.

Concerning the Madrid Convention, we should remember that it has taken 20 years so far to ratify this convention and, if I remember correctly, not all of our Member States have ratified the Convention yet.

In 1980, on the initiative of the Council of Europe, a set of European countries concluded an international treaty, called the Madrid Convention, as a first step towards cross-border co-operation structures based on public law.