European Committee of the Regions 20 November 2003, Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the "Green Paper on services of general interest"

23.3.2004 EN C 73/7 Official Journal of the European Union 2.15. recommends that the CARDS programme supports the development of local partnerships in the framework of the Local Democracy Agency programme (LDA); this project, initiated by the Council of Europe, has since 1993 been implementing concrete projects in the field of local democracy, Brussels, 19 November 2003.