Article 82 · Local and regional administrative cooperation

1.This Regulation does not apply where regional or local authorities entrust each other with the performance of tasks incumbent on them, or use each other’s own resources for that purpose, including in exchange for remuneration only, provided that they perform the task by own resources. For the purposes of this Article, own resources do not include goods not yet acquired or services that are being provided to one of the participating local or regional authorities by economic operators or legal persons entrusted pursuant to Article 80(1), (2) and (3).

2.For the purpose of this Article, ‘regional authorities’ includes authorities listed non-exhaustively in NUTS 1 and NUTS 2, as referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003, while ‘local authorities’ includes all authorities of the administrative units falling under NUTS 3 and smaller administrative units, as referred to in that Regulation.