Summary: The Protocol aims to strengthen the Outline Convention by expressly recognising, under certain conditions, the right of territorial communities to conclude transfrontier co-operation agreements, the validity in domestic law of the acts and decisions made in the framework of a transfrontier co-operation agreement, and the legal corporate capacity ("legal personality") of any co-operation body set up under such an agreement.
Signed: 25/07/1997
Sanctioned and promulgated: 07/05/2004
International ratification: 12/06/2009
Entry into force: 13/09/2009