Bulletin n. 3/2009
January 2010
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Pongérard-Payet Hélène
    Les collectivités locales, facteur de fédération dans l'Union européenne? Quatrième partie: La politique régionale communautaire: quelles évolutions pour les collectivités locales? - Quelle action communautaire à l'égard des régions ultrapériphériques et des pays et territoires d'outre-mer?
    in Revue de l'Union européenne/Revue du Marché Commun et de l'Union européenne , n. 534, janvier ,  2010 ,  37-48
    The European Union's law grasps the specificity of overseas territories by dedicating two separate statutes to them: that of far-surrounding regions and that of overseas countries and territories, known under the acronyms of ORs and OCT. That distinction is crucial to the organisation of overseas community law and has major consequences: whereas the ORs are included in the Union, subject to adjustments related to their structural handicaps, OCTs are only associated to it. The Lisbon Treaty reproduces both statutes, while providing for a new "bridge clause" allowing to switch from one status to the other on the respective country's request. In the same way, the schemes related to those insitutional statutes are significantly different: whereas the ORs are granted normative adaptation measures and significant financial support, including in the framework of the structural funds for the 2007-2013 period, OCTs enjoy an advantageous commercial scheme and development subsidies in the framework of the EDF. Yet beyond those differences, community actions towards the ORs and OCTs are the subject of a renewed approach aimed at ensuring the durability of both concepts. Thus the Commission intends to develop a new paradigm based on the enhancement of OR's assets and modernise the OCT's association scheme.
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