As a legal instrument, EGTCs are not intended to circumvent the framework provided by the Council of Europe acquis offering different opportunities and frameworks within which regional and local authorities can cooperate across borders including the recent Euroregional Co-operation Groupings [7], or to provide a set of specific common rules which would uniformly govern all such arrangements throughout the Union.
Mar ionstraim dlí, níl sé beartaithe go rachadh EGTCanna timpeall an chreata arna sholáthar ag acquis Chomhairle na hEorpa, ar acquis é a sholáthraíonn deiseanna agus creataí éagsúla inar féidir le húdaráis réigiúnacha agus áitiúla comhoibriú thar theorainneacha lena n-áirítear na Grúpálacha Comhair Eora-Réigiúnacha [7] a bunaíodh le déanaí, nó níl sé le tacar comhrialacha sonracha a sholáthar a rialódh go haonfhoirmeach na socruithe uile den sórt sin ar fud an Aontais.