The 6th milestone of the Legal accessibility initiative (in 2021) includes three activities related to two topics:
- legal solution for the institutionalisation of urban agglomeration areas – comprehensive analysis
- legal accessibility among the Visegrad Countries – forum and conference
- compilation of the final report – in Hungarian and English.
The analysis of the first topic is justified by the fact that in parallel with the EU integration process, the borders become more and more permeable and, as a result, the services provided by nearly 100 urban centres located on both sides of the Hungarian borders are used by more and more people on both sides. This process has an impact not only on the service providers but also on the governance and funding schemes of the particular border area.
In 2019, with the involvement of the experts of the four countries, CESCI wrote a proposal on a legal accessibility mechanism to be set at Visegrad Four level. The negotiations on the initiative started at the beginning of 2020 at diplomatic level but have been interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In the second half of 2021 Hungary takes the rotating presidency of the V4 cooperation and CESCI intends to use this occasion for the popularisation and preparation of the mechanism.
Output indicators of the project
- Analysis of the existing French municipality-level solutions (in French and Hungarian) (1 study)
- Legal assessment of the adaptability of the French solutions to Hungary (1 study)
- Recommendations on the regulating background for the establishment of cross-border agglomerations (1 document)
- Recommendation on bilateral agreements on cross-border agglomerations (1 document)
- Total length of the analyses (100 pages)
- Conference on legal accessibility (1 event)
- Number of participants of the conference (60 persons)
- Professional summary of the forum and the conference in English (1 document)
- Final report of the project in Hungarian (1 document)
- Final report of the project in English (1 document)