EU (2011 update)
In 2007 under the German EU Presidency in Leipzig, the Ministers responsible for spatial planning and development had agreed on the Territorial Agenda of the European Union (TA). Together with TA another document had been prepared with the title “Territorial State and Perspectives of the EU” (TSP) providing evidence base for the TA. In 2011 under the Hungarian EU Presidency the revised Territorial Agenda is adopted by the Ministers at their meeting. In order to adopt the revised TA to the changing circumstances, also an update of the TSP was decided upon - building both on the valid content and the changes encountered since 2007. Based on the agreements in May 2009, Prague the Scoping Paper of the DG meeting declared that the update process would use the results of the evaluation of TA 2007 as well as the first results of the First Action Programme in order to be able to provide relevant basis for the revised Territorial Agenda as its background document. It is important to point out that the updated TSP is not discussed by the Ministers oriented status and processes of the European Union.
Due to the fact that the overwhelming part of the TSP 2007 is valid for the present and also for the next decade in the course of the TSP update those statements of the old document which are still valid and relevant were kept in the chapters. In some cases where the data were obsolete or circumstances had changed statements have been updated. Regarding the new issues and phenomena which have a significant influence on territorial structures of the economy and society some new content appeared in the updated TSP including territorial impacts of the financial and economic crisis and the recovery; the increased impact of globalisation and its anticipation; the issue of territorial integration after the enlargement of the EU; the growing challenges from the demographic imbalances and the high volatility of energy prices and the issues of energy security, renewable energies, and energy efficiency which themes were touched already by the TSP 2007. Out-of-date and irrelevant parts of the content have been deleted from the final document.
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