Within the CPMR, a Macro-Regions Task force was set up in June 2012 to look more closely at the macro-regional and sea basin strategies in progress, exchange best practice and thereby identify common guidelines for future initiatives.

This Task Force tries to make sure that the Regions are involved in all the phases of the design and delivery phase of these strategies. Macro-regional strategies should promote a new form of inclusive, multi-level governance based on priorities fixed in agreement with the regional actors.