Setting up of Cross-Border Coordination Points

Expected Impact:

The present call for proposals is expected to support the setting up of approximately 15 CBCP in accordance with the Regulation.

Expected Outcome:

Setting up of 15 Cross-Border Coordination Points, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2025/925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 May 2025 on a “Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU)”, involving at least 15 Member States of the European Union.

Objective:

The present call aims at supporting the operational setting up of CBCP, in the framework of BRIDGEforEU. Its main objective is to facilitate MS in the process of setting up said points, by providing financial support. The applicants to the present call should present proposals describing the process of operational setting up of CBCP.

Article 4(2) of the Regulation allows for neighbouring MS to create “joint cross-border coordination points”. Taking that into account, proposals may be submitted by joint CBCP already set, or prospective joint CPCP. In such cases, only one of the MS co-creators of the joint CBCP must provide the letter of Acknowledgment, referred to in section 5.

Scope:

CBCP and prospective CBCP set-up according to the Regulation aim at providing solution of legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context and in land or maritime border regions of neighbouring Member States.

Any activity for the operational setting-up of CBCP (such as, but this list is indicative only and not exhaustive, rent or purchase of real estate, of digital equipment or systems, of furniture and office equipment; procurement of studies and advise to define the CBCP functioning model; purchase of office supplies; purchase of design and development of web pages; legal consulting; legal assessment of the first files (as defined in articles 7 and 8 of the Regulation) received by the CBCP);

Any communication activity related to the CBCP.