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Cross-Border Platform">European Cross-Border Platform</a>, which gathers actors in cross-border cooperation in Europe. It is a place for cross-border stakeholders to meet and discuss border communities' unique circumstances and needs, allowing them to engage with the EU institutions through the European Committee of the Regions.</p> <p>In addition, COTER is in charge of the CoR's <a href="/en/our-work/commissions/coter/territorial-impact-assessment" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="76dd749c-9051-4eeb-ac13-2e939b204b50" data-entity-substitution="canonical" title="Territorial Impact Assessment">Territorial Impact Assessments (TIAs) </a>. The TIAs provide CoR rapporteurs with an analysis of the potential territorial impact of EU legislative proposals.</p> <p>Joint CoR-OECD activities – in areas such as the quality of public investment, decentralisation and regional, urban and territorial development – are also managed by COTER. The key objective of this cooperation is to strengthen political dialogue between the OECD and EU local and regional governments and ultimately improve public policies that foster economic and social well-being. </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="lb-section is-one-column is-width-medium is-align-left is-align-v-default is-align-c-center is-padding-normal is-background-full is-theme-transparent is-border-full is-border-transparent" id="Newsroom"> <div class="container"> <div class="container-inner"> <div class="lb-section__content-wrapper"> <div class="lb-section__region lb-section__region--content lb-section__content flex-layout flex-layout--one-col"> <div class="lb-section__column-wrapper"> <div class="column column--1"> <section class="lb-block block block-layout-builder block-extra-field-blocknodecommissionextra-field-commission-news"> <div class="layout lb-block__layout"> <div 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