As well as safeguarding the availabilty of European funding to the region, one of the East of England LGA's main tasks is to ensure the need and aspirations of the East of England are taken into account as European policy is reviewed. One of the main ways we do this is by working with partners and stakeholders to develop regional responses to consultation documents published by the European Commission. Over the past few years, the following policy responses have been submitted:
2009 East of England response to the green paper on the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
2009 East of England response to TEN-T: a policy review- towards a better integrated trans European transport network at the service of the Common Transport policy
2009 East of England response to the Green Paper on Territorial Cohesion consultation
2008 East of England response to the European Commission's document COM(2007)551 Green Paper: Towards a new culture for urban mobility 2007 East of England response to the Interregional Co-operartion Programme (Interreg IVC)
2007 East of England response to the draft England ESF programme
2007 East of England response to the European Commission's Maritime Green Paper consultation
2007 East of England response to the North Sea Programme consultation
2006 East of England regional response to the North West Europe Operational Programme consultation
2006 East of England response to the Rural Development Programme for England 2006 East of England position on European Commission's Community Strategic Guidelines 2006 East of England response to the consultation on the draft National Strategic Reference Framework for future Structural Fund programmes