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Each Interreg programme shall set out: the programme area, including, whenever possible, a map thereof as a separate document; a summary of the main joint challenges, taking into account: economic, social and territorial disparities as well as inequalities; joint investment needs and complementarity and synergies with other funding programmes and instruments; lessons learnt from past experience; macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies where the programme area as a whole or partially is covered by one or more strategies; a justification for the selected policy objectives and Interreg-specific objectives, corresponding priorities, specific objectives or actions under the Interreg-specific objectives and the forms of support, addressing, where appropriate, missing links in cross-border infrastructure; the specific objectives or actions under the Interreg-specific objectives for each priority; for each specific objective or for each action under the Interreg-specific objectives: the related types of actions and their expected contribution to those specific objectives or actions under the Interreg-specific objectives and, where appropriate, to macro-regional strategies and sea-basin strategies; output indicators and result indicators with the corresponding milestones and targets; the main target groups; an indication of the specific territories targeted, including the planned use of integrated territorial investments (ITI), community-led local development or other territorial tools; the planned use of financial instruments; and an indicative breakdown of the programmed resources by type of intervention; a financing plan containing the following tables without any division per participating Member State, third country, partner country or OCT, unless specified otherwise therein: a table specifying, by year, the total financial allocation for the ERDF and, where relevant, for each external financing instrument of the Union for the whole programming period; a table specifying, for each priority, the total financial allocation by the ERDF and, where relevant, by each external financing instrument of the Union by priority and the national co-financing and whether the national co-financing is made up of public and private co-financing; the actions taken to involve the relevant programme partners referred to in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 in the preparation of the Interreg programme, and the role of those programme partners in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of that programme; the envisaged approach to communication and visibility for the Interreg programme through defining its objectives, target audiences, communication channels, including social media outreach, where appropriate, planned budget and relevant indicators for monitoring and evaluation; and an indication of support to small-scale projects, including small projects within small project funds. When a Member State submits the programme, it shall ensure that the programme is accompanied for information purposes by a list of planned operations of strategic importance and a timetable.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.