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16 juillet 2008

Presentation of the Urban Housing Intergroup

The Intergroup on Urban-Housing (IUL) was created at the early 2005 on the initiative of two Members of the European Parliament : Jean-Marie BEAUPUY (ALDE, France) and Alain HUTCHINSON (PSE, Belgium). They were concerned respectively by the urban question and the housing issue. They were therefore associated to constitute the Intergroup that we know today, thanks to the sponsorship of the political groups ALDE, PSE and EPP.

Jean-Marie BEAUPUY has been chairing the Intergroup since 2005. A Bureau was formed to decide the action strategy of the IUL ; it meets once a month on the occasion of the plenary sessions in Brussels. The 72 members of the Intergroup are MEP from all the political tendencies represented in the European Parliament.

The objective of the Intergroup is to highlight the concern to deal with the urban and housing policies through a cross-policy and an integrated approach. Although urban policy is not a direct competence of the European Union, the IUL ensures that this dimension is taken into account in all the Community legislation in particular on Transport, on Environment, on regional Development, on Culture and in social Affairs.

This group is first of all a structure to enhance the exchange of ideas and best practices ; with its members and sometimes in collaboration with its partners, it organizes on a regular basis conferences. Moreover, the Intergroup’s objective is to prepare concrete actions. It carries out legislative actions such as the tabling of amendments, the own-initiative report, the written declaration… It also plays an active role in the work undertaken by the various Presidencies of the Council with an official platform at the informal Councils.

The Urban-Housing Intergroup decided to associate to its work professional bodies which share the common aims regarding the urban and housing policies. These 90 organisations became partners : they co-organise and take part, inter alia, in the events of the Intergroup. This partnership system works as a network for the various European, local, national and transnational actors of that same field, in order to carry out joint and more effective actions within the Community Institutions.