Regional planning: Europe 2000 plus. Report

Adopting the report by Mr Fernandez Martin, the Committee on Regional Policy felt that the elements required in order to implement a European regional planning policy urgently needed to be incorporated into the Treaty during the reform of the Treaty planned for 1996, mainly by: - allowing guidelines guaranteeing the coherence and complementarity of various Community policies to be jointly adopted with a view to achieving the balanced and sustained development of Union territory and stronger economic and social cohesion in the Union; - strengthening the trans-European network policy by extending it to education, vocational training, research and the environment; - allowing a legal framework to be established with a view to facilitating interregional and cross-border cooperation. The Commission and the Council were called on to notify the European Parliament well in advance of any plans to include a European regional planning policy in the Treaty.�