ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ ПРОТОКОЛ К ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЙ РАМОЧНОЙ КОНВЕНЦИИ О ПРИГРАНИЧНОМ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВЕ ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНЫХ СООБЩЕСТВ И ВЛАСТЕЙ. Протокол. Совет Европы. 09.11.95

Article 4

     1. Where   the   transfrontier   co-operation   body   has  legal
personality,  such personality shall be as defined in the law  of  the
Contracting  Party  in  which its headquarters are located.  The legal
personality of the body is recognised by the other Contracting Parties
which  have  territorial  communities  or  authorities  party  to  the
transfrontier agreement in conformity with their own national law.
     2. The   transfrontier   co-operation   body  shall  perform  the
responsibilities assigned to it  by  the  territorial  communities  or
authorities  in accordance with its purpose and in the manner provided
for in the national law by which ft is governed. Thus:
     a -  action  by  the  transfrontier  co-operation  body  shall be
governed by its statute and by the law of the headquarters State;
     b -  the transfrontier co-operation body shall not,  however,  be
empowered to take measures which apply generally or which might affect
the rights and freedoms of individuals;
     с - the transfrontier co-operation body shall  be  financed  from
the  budgets  of the territorial communities or authorities.  It shall
not be empowered to impose levies of a fiscal nature.  It  may,  where
appropriate,  receive revenue in respect of services provided by it to
territorial communities or authorities, users or third parties;
     d -  the  transfrontier  co-operation  body  shall have an annual
estimated budget and shall draw up a balance-account  which  shall  be
approved  by  auditors  independent  of the territorial communities or
authorities party to the agreement.