К ЕВРОПЕЙСКОЙ РАМОЧНОЙ КОНВЕНЦИИ О ПРИГРАНИЧНОМ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВЕ ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНЫХ СООБЩЕСТВ И ВЛАСТЕЙ, КАСАЮЩЕЙСЯ МЕЖТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА. Протокол. Совет Европы. 05.05.98 2

Article 2

     1. Each Contracting Party shall recognise and respect  the  right
of territorial communities or authorities within its jurisdiction, and
referred to in Articles 1 and 2 of the European Outline Convention  on
Transfrontier   Co-operation   Between   Territorial   Communities  or
Authorities (hereinafter referred to as "the Outline Convention"),  to
engage  in  discussions  and  to  draw  up,  within  common  fields of
responsibility,   interterritorial   co-operation    agreements,    in
accordance  with  the  procedures  laid  down  in  their statutes,  in
conformity with national law and insofar as  such  agreements  are  in
keeping with the Contracting Party`s international commitments.
     2. An interterritorial co-operation agreement shall  entail  only
the  responsibilities  of  the  territorial communities or authorities
which have concluded it.