Committee responsible for:

1.   the operation and development of the Union’s regional development and cohesion policy, as established in the Treaties;

2.   the European Regional Development Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the other instruments of the Union’s regional policy;

3.   assessment of the impact of other Union policies on economic and social cohesion;

4.   coordination of the Union’s structural instruments;

5.   the urban dimension of the cohesion policy;

6.   outermost regions and islands as well as trans-frontier and interregional cooperation;

7.   relations with the Committee of the Regions, interregional cooperation organisations and local and regional authorities.