An EGTC is a grouping of territorial entities, endowed with legal personality, which aims at facilitating and promoting cross-border, transnational and/or interregional cooperation, referred to as "territorial cooperation") with the sole objective of reinforcing economic and social cohesion (as per article 175 of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union).
The Eurocity Chaves-Verín, AECT aims to combine efforts and resources, through the joint planning and management of services and equipment of the border municipalities of Verín in the Autonomous Community of Galicia and of Chaves in the Northern Region of Portugal.
The interventions, aimed at citizens, are intended to promote institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental convergence between the two cities, which will use the border effect as an opportunity for territorial and socio-economic development, promoting the use of common services as an instrument to encourage coexistence between the population of both territories.
Members
Participants in the Eurocity Chaves-Verín, EGTC, on the Spanish side are the Municipality of Verín (province of Ourense, Autonomous Community of Galicia) and on the Portuguese side the Municipality of Chaves, in the North of Portugal.
Government Bodies
Composition of the Board of the General Meeting
- Chairman: Nuno Vaz Ribeiro
- Secretary: Diego Lourenzo Moura
Members of the General Assembly 2017-2021
- Nuno Vaz Ribeiro
- Mayor of Chaves
- Gerardo Seoane Fidalgo
- Mayor of Verín
- Francisco António Chaves de Melo
- Vice Mayor of Chaves
- Paula Fernanda da Mota Chaves
- Councilwoman of the City Council of Chaves
- Nuno Coelho Chaves
- Alderman of the City Council of Chaves
- Diego Lourenzo Moura
- Deputy Mayor of Verín
- José Luis Martín
- Town Council of Verín
- Emilia Somoza
- Town Council of Verín
Executive Body
- Director: Gerardo Seoane Fidalgo
- Executive Director: Pablo Rivera
- Secretary: José Sousa
Advisory Board
- Xunta de Galicia
- Northern Regional Coordination and Development Commission
- Ourense Regional Council
- Intermunicipal Community of Alto Tâmega