European Committee of the Regions

European Committee of the Regions
AbbreviationCoR
Formation1994; 30 years ago (1994)
TypeAdvisory body to the European Union
PurposeConsultative to the EU institutions; subsidiarity monitoring – can approach the Court of Justice of the European Union with regard to the application of subsidiarity principle
HeadquartersJacques Delors building, Brussels,  Belgium
Coordinates50°50′26″N 4°22′38″E / 50.84056°N 4.37722°E / 50.84056; 4.37722
Membership
329
President
Vasco Cordeiro
 Portugal, PSE
Websitewww.cor.europa.eu
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The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is the European Union's (EU) assembly of local and regional representatives that provides sub-national authorities (i.e. regions, counties, provinces, municipalities and cities) with a direct voice within the EU's institutional framework.

Established in 1994, the CoR was set up to address two main issues. First, about three quarters of EU legislation is implemented at local or regional level, so local and regional representatives needed to have a say in the development of new EU laws. Second, there were concerns about a widening gap between the public and the process of European integration; involving the elected level of government closest to the citizens was one way of closing the gap.[1]

  1. ^ "Summaries of EU legislation". Europa. Retrieved 12 June 2013.