The Commission proposal aims to reduce the obstacles and difficulties encountered in managing actions of cross-border, transnational or interregional cooperation within the framework of differing national laws and procedures by creating a cooperation instrument at Community level to allow the setting-up on Community territory of cooperative groupings invested with legal personality to be known as ‘European groupings of cross-border cooperation’ (EGCC), recourse to which will be optional ( recitals 2 and 7, and Article 1, of the Commission proposal) .
The Commission proposal aims to reduce the obstacles and difficulties encountered in managing actions of cross-border, transnational or interregional cooperation within the framework of differing national laws and procedures by creating a cooperation instrument at Community level to allow the setting-up on Community territory of cooperative groupings invested with legal personality to be known as ‘European groupings of cross-border cooperation’ (EGCC), recourse to which will be optional ( recitals 2 and 7, and Article 1, of the Commission proposal) .