Operational programmes concerning border areas (INTERREG)
Notice to the Member States laying down guidelines for operational programmes which Member States are invited to establish in the framework of a Community initiative concerning border areas (INTERREG). Aims of the initiative are to assist both internal and external areas of the Community in overcoming the special development problems arising from relative isolation, to promote the creation and development of networks of cooperation across internal borders, to assist the adjustment of external border areas to their new role as border areas of a single integrated market and to respond to new opportunities for cooperation with third countries in external border areas of the Community.