(8) While Article 3(1)(d) of the EGTC Regulation allows that bodies established under private law may become members of an EGTC provided that they are considered as being ' public law bodies' in terms of Article 1(9) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts, EGTCs may be used in the future to manage jointly public services with a particular focus on services of general economic interest or infrastructure .

Management of expectations is also extremely important and I believe that perhaps in the future, we should be a little bit more imaginative in trying to allow for some kind of gradual integration of a country for which full integration is not to be envisaged in the short term.

128. Recognises the importance of green public procurement, and believes that more attention should be focused on its use, especially by public authorities in receipt of EU funding; recommends that the authorities responsible for the management and control systems created in the Member States to manage structural and cohesion funding should support projects which provide for such procedures;

(8) While Article 3(1)(d) of the EGTC Regulation allows that bodies established under private law may become members of an EGTC provided that they are considered as being 'public law bodies' in terms of Article 1(9) of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts, EGTCs may be used in the future to manage jointly public services with a particular focus on services of general economic interest or infrastructure.

- Is there a way of encouraging the universities to manage themselves as efficiently as possible while taking due account simultaneously of their own requirements and the legitimate expectations of society in their regard?

To improve this situation, the Daphne Programme guidelines and monitoring visits will stress this issue more than before, and attention will be paid to it during monitoring visits so that advice can be provided to organisations who may be struggling with this aspect of the project.