The COTER commission adopted by unanimity the opinion of the EA member, Mr Szwabski, on the Code of conduct on partnership. Mr Szwabski has welcomed the publication of the draft Code of Conduct to be applied across the different EU funds dealing with Territorial Cohesion and he was pleased about the opportunity given to contribute to its finalisation now.

"In practice, only a system of multilevel governance involving all levels can effectively combine these two dimensions" he said. The partnership principle has been for a long time one of the key principles for managing the European Funds and it is why the local and regional authorities should be treated as key partners by the managing authority and Member State – he added.
During the meeting the members has appointed a new chair of the Commission, Mr Marek Wozniak, and confirmed the newly nominated political coordinators. Mr Meaney, EA political coordinator for COTER expressed his gratitude for Mr Delabarre and congratulated to the new chairman for his election.
Following opinions were also discussed during the meeting: Opinion on Community Local Development, Opinion on Common Strategic Framework and Opinion on outermost Regions in the light of Europe 2020 Strategy.