The CoR opinion underlines the crucial role of cohesion policy in achieving the Treaty objective of economic, social and territorial cohesion by "reducing disparities between levels of development of the various regions and the backwardness of the least favoured regions."
V mnenju OR je poudarjena ključna vloga kohezijske politike pri doseganju cilja ekonomske, socialne in teritorialne kohezije iz Pogodbe, in sicer "zmanjšati neskladje med stopnjami razvitosti različnih regij in zaostalost regij z najbolj omejenimi možnostmi".