European perspective

This document aims to provide a summary of the main legal tools that can be used to set up cross-border projects at France’s borders. It contains a series of factsheets that set out for each tool its definition, its legal basis, the scope of its use and its main advantages and limitations. Each tool is illustrated by two examples of structure that have been set up at France’s borders and that were presented in the five information seminars. This guide also sets out the main stages that need to be gone through in the choice of a legal tools, as well as providing a table that summarises the different tools.