Sonderband 2. International Council on Archives. Dritte Europäische Archivkonferenz, Wien 11. bis 15. Mai 1993. Tagungsprotokolle (1996)
2. Session /Séance. Regional (trans-border) Cooperation / Coopération régionale (transfrontaliere) - Brejon de Lavergnée, Marie-Edith: New economic Zones and their Archives / Nouvelles zones économiques et leurs archives (english 77 - français 100)
2. Session/Seance: Brejon de Lavergnée, New economic Zones and their Archives istics, which encourage regions to work together, especially with regard to Brussels, so as to derive more benefit from community support. Cooperation between Regions in the same Country Regions in France, for example have in this way experienced the need to join together, since it very often happens that the scope of the fields of activity and powers attributed to regions in neighbouring countries, are the ones that benefit the départements in France. The Greater South, which extends from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and brings together the regions of Aquitaine, Corsica, Languedoc- Roussillon, Mid Pyrenees, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur may be cited as an example.This association was created in 1986 on the initiative of the chairmen of the five regions (who serve as chairmen in turn), which are affected by the Combined Mediterranean Programmes (CMP). This at present is the forum in which consideration, discussion and co-ordination of decisions on common projects take place, with an aerial tuned to Brussels. There is also an association of French regions in the Greater East. It was established as the region of Lorraine so as to bring together the five regions of North Eastern France, i.e., Alsace, Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne, Franche-Comté and Lorraine, so to allow them to consult each other about the documentation essential to their development. It was for this reason also that five technical commissions were set up, each one of them competent in a particular field to consider inter-regional interests (promotion of the economy, cross-border relations, research and technological net works, High Speed Trains, navigable waterways, woodland roads and tracks). Each region is represented by five elected persons, members of each of the commissions and the association is presided over, in turn for a period of two years, by the chairman of one of the five regional councils. From time to time a General Assembly of the association is held. One meeting took place at the end of 1991 at the Regional Hall in Metz. During the course of 1991 within the framework of preparations for the development of the National Plan and to assist in their own planning, the five French members of the Greater Eastern Region set up an inter-regional planning and future strategies working party, whose job was to draw up the schedule of conditions for a forthcoming study of economic, social and cultural expansion in that Region. Trans-border Cooperation This type of cooperation can go beyond former frontiers, in which case ,Trans- Border1 may mean cither with or without a common frontier. It can also be bilateral, multilateral or general, that is touching on every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life or on economic life alone. Euroregions Large entities of five to thirty million inhabitants are begining to spring up, clearly determined to combine their attempts to acquire infrastructures of heavy plant in 79
