Tasks & Objectives

Objective of the EUROREGION ELBE/LABE and its organs is to make work and tasks of the EUROREGION ELBE/LABE transparent and to simplify and to streamline the regional cross border collaboration. The Collaboration based on the principles of equality under attention on the European Outline Convention on Trans-frontier Cooperation between Territorial Communities or Authorities, which passed the Council of Europe (CE) in 1980.

The foundation conference assigned the following targets and objectives:

1. Support of collaboration and development in the fields of:
   • regional planning,
   • nature and environment,
   • business development and tourism/ development of infrastructure,
   • civil protection and rescue,
   • traffic,
   • culture, education, sport, encounter,
   • health and social services;
2. Support of municipal and individual projects which are associated with the regional goals of development;
3. Support of all activities and efforts on a municipal level, which promote the development in border areas on the common EU internal frontier;
4. Representation of the regional interests at authorities and institutions and support of activities in frame of the binding agreements about regional and municipal transborder cooperation.