Protocol (No 30) annexed to the Treaty establishing the European Community by the Treaty of Amsterdam of 2 October 1997.

On 20 September 2001, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions signed a cooperation agreement. This agreement aims to improve procedures for consultation of the Committee of the Regions and to involve the Committee more closely in the Community political debate and in information and communication policy.

On 20 September 2001, the European Commission and the Committee of the Regions signed a cooperation agreement. On this occasion, Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission, underlines the importance of the local and regional dimension in the search for a European Union that is more democratic and closer to the concerns of its citizens.

On 5 April 1994, the Committee of the Regions, at the request of the Council, delivers an opinion for the first time. This opinion regards the proposal for a Council Regulation establishing a Cohesion Fund.

In this own-initiative opinion, with a view to the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference, the Committee of the Regions states its views on the role that it plays, and would like to play, in the institutional structure of the Community. Its proposals are based on a new formulation of the principle of subsidiarity, which has become the Committee’s main concern.

Real custodian of the subsidiarity principle, the Committee of the Regions underlines in this opinion of 11 March 1999, the importance of the existence and the respect for this principle in an expanding European Union.

This own-initiative opinion of 15 September 1999 reports on the institutional aspects of enlargement of the European Union with regard to the Committee of the Regions.

Entschließung des Ausschusses der Regionen vom 12. April 2000 zum Thema „Das Partnerschaftsprinzip und seine Umsetzung bei der Reform der Strukturfonds 2000-2006“. Der Ausschuss der Regionen wünscht, dass den regionalen und lokalen Gebietskörperschaften im Rahmen der Partnerschaft eine Schlüsselrolle zukommt.

On 13 March 2002, the Committee of the Regions delivers its first opinion at the request of the European Parliament.

Schlusserklärung der vom Europäischen Parlament, auf Anregung seines Ausschusses für Regionalpolitik und in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ausschuss der Regionen, am 1., 2. und 3. Oktober 1986 organisierten Konferenz "Europäisches Parlament/Gebietskörperschaften der Europäischen Union". Die Teilnehmer befürworten die institutionelle Konsolidierung und die Ausweitung der Zuständigkeiten des Ausschusses der Regionen.

On Tuesday 21 April 2009, as the Committee of the Regions commemorates its 15th anniversary in Brussels, the organisation sets out its mission statement, which defines its role, its values and its aspirations.

In dem Interview mit der Zeitschrift Inforegio legt Jos Chabert, Präsident des Ausschusses der Regionen von 2000 bis 2002, die Prioritäten des Ausschusses im Hinblick auf die Erweiterung der Europäischen Union dar. Dank seiner Kompetenzen auf dem Gebiet der Beratung und Information könnte der Ausschuss eine wichtige Rolle bei der Stärkung des wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Zusammenhalts spielen, insbesondere im Rahmen der Regionalpolitik, aber auch in anderen Gemeinschaftspolitiken. Gleiches gilt für die Stärkung der Partnerschaft. Ziel ist eine bessere Einbindung der regionalen und lokalen Gebietskörperschaften in die Aufstellung und Durchführung der aus den Strukturfonds finanzierten Programme.

Artikel über den Ausschuss der Regionen: seine Zusammensetzung und seine Tätigkeit als beratendes Organ der EU-Institutionen.

The European Charter of Local Self-Government opened for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe on 15 October 1985 and entered into force on 9 September 1988. The Committee of the Regions of the European Union calls for the principle of local self-government, as defined by the Charter, to be included in the Community treaties. Moreover, the Committee of the Regions works together with the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE) with a view to monitoring the implementation of the Charter.

With the backing of the Committee of the Regions of the European Union, the Council of Europe's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe (CLRAE) draws up a draft ‘European Charter of Regional Self-Government' along the lines of the ‘European Charter of Local Self-Government'. Given that these two Charters are complementary in the application of the principle of subsidiarity for the benefit of regional and local authorities, the CLRAE directs its efforts towards this Charter eventually securing the status of European treaty as does the European Charter of Local Self-Government. However, points of contention between the member States of the Council of Europe stand in the way of its being signed.