Joining the Interreg family ensures a common legal framework with the other CBC funds, but also builds an open gate to a common EC management, synergies with IPA CBC and internal ETC programmes, a common methodological approach, templates of documents included in the regulation and the possibility of participating in the development and use of common tools, such as HIT and JeMS. 

The general provisions basically tell you what the regulation is about, why Interreg programmes exist and where the money comes from. OK, let's look more closely into these questions.