The purpose of this Framework contract is to enable the European Committee of the Regions’ services to have at their disposal a framework contract for the provision of scientific, legal, documentary and editorial assistance services to the European Committee of the Regions’ bodies, members, rapporteurs and services. The spheres of activity covered by this FWC reflect the CoR’s political priorities from the perspective of Local and Regional authorities in the following indicative areas of activity:
• Competition and State Aid, International Trade and Tariffs, Public Procurement
• Industrial and SME Policy, Internal Market
• European Semester, Economic Governance, European Monetary Union policy, Taxation
• Investments of local and regional authorities and related challenges
• Sustainable Development Goals