WELCOME

2003: 10-year anniversary INFOBEST PALMRAIN –Inauguration “Maison TRIRHENA Palmrain”

Maison TRIRHENA PalmrainCenter of competence for cross-border questions

Nachbarschaftskonferenz

Council of local parliaments

INFOBEST PALMRAIN

Trinational center for information and counselingin cross-border questions

TAB / ATB

Verein für die Trinationale

Agglomeration Basel

(urban and regional planning)

RegioTriRhena

Council of RegioTriRhena(8 commissions)

INFOBEST=

INFOrmations- undBEratungsSTelle

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Center for information and counseling in cross-border questions

INFOBESTPamina

INFOBESTKehl-Strassbourg

INFOBESTVogelgrun-Breisach

INFOBESTPALMRAIN

Basel

FreiburgColmar

Mulhouse

Strasbourg

Offenburg

Karlsruhe

The INFOBEST-Network

Population in the Upper Rhine region

� Upper Rhine region: 5.5 Mio

� Economic region TriRhena: 2.2 Mio

� Urban agglomeration: 690‘000

� Basel (city): 165‘000

Contact point and information center for everybody

INFOBEST PALMRAIN supports the unhindered „together“ in the German-French-Swiss living-space as information desk for:

� citizens� associations� companies� administration� politicians

Tasks of INFOBEST PALMRAIN

� Information and advising

� Support for the implementation of cross-border projects

� Hinge between administrations

� General presentation of cross-border cooperation in the upperrhine region

Information and counseling

INFOBEST informs and gives advice about…

� Living and employment conditions� Tax and social security systems� Status of border crossers� Education- and school systems� Regulations� Structure of the administrations� Bilateral agreements and European determinations

� The competent institutions / locations

28’000

32’000

25’100

5'503

8

1'302

1'909

Employees of Novartis Basel (Rhine valley) place of residence (2004)

Source: Novartis

63%22%

15%

Andere

Typical questions of frontier workers

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?

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Labour legislation

Maternity

Old-age insurance

Tax law

Foreign language / other culture

Health insurance

Working permits

Unemployment insurance

Disablement insurance

Who were our customers in 2004?

particulars

84,6%

companies

8,2%

associations

3.1% administration

4,1%

Topics / thematic fields covered in 2004

addresses

& statistics

17%

tax

9.5%work

17%

social

security

25%

automobile

6.5%

divers

5.1%habitation

12.2%

bilateral

agreements

5%

cross-border

coop.

2,1%

Citizenship of enquirers 2004

CH

14.1%

D

38.6%

F

40.0%

misc. 7.3%

Which countries were affected bythe questions in 2004?

D

23.6%

CH

40.3%

F

36.1%

Information through…

personal

interviews

counseling

by phone

via mail /

internet+ +

Information also through…

Brochures…

…and leaflets !

* Looking for a job in Switzerland

* What changes on the 1 June 2004?; Bilateral agreements

* Move from Switzerland to Germany / France

* Looking for a job in Germany

* Move from Germany to France

* etc.

Enquiries 1993 – 2005 (TOTAL 01/06/1993 - 31/12/2005 = 44‘149)

5 3 2

2 0 3 6

2 7 6 1

2 9 3 2

3 2 9 5

3 3 8 4

3 6 7 0

4 2 0 24 18 8

4 5 2 1

3 8 5 7

4 2 18

4 5 5 3

0

50 0

10 0 0

150 0

2 0 0 0

2 50 0

3 0 0 0

3 50 0

4 0 0 0

4 50 0

EURES-T

Cross-border information day for citizens

and

Job-Workshops for frontier workers

Project with the local press

Support to implement cross-borderprojects

INFOBEST:� Indicates potential partners and contacts� Orientates about European and regional financial support programs

� Informs about the procedure and the institutions involved

� Refers to projects which have been realized� Promotes the exchange of information and experiences with other projects

A hinge between administrations

INFOBEST:

� facilitates contacts and meetings of the administrative counterparts,

� orientates about the administrative systems,

� helps to reduce language barriers,

� mentions regulation deficiencies and –incompatibilities.

General presentation of cross-border cooperation

Three countries, two languages, one living space…

Visitors come from near and far, often from other border regions, to get to know the structures in the Upper Rhine Region

INFOBEST:� knows players, projects, every day problems and political aims� holds lectures on experiences� explains the multifaceted boards and contacts� disposes of many documents concerning cross-border cooperation� shows the functioning of cooperation in every day life� offers access to its library� provides people with its publications

Presentation of cross-border cooperation

21.08.03 : Delegation from the

Three-frontiers-region

Egypt-Sudan-Ethiopia

04.06.03 : Parliamentarian-

delegation from Bosnia-Herzegovina

The 31 Partners of INFOBEST

French Partners

Etat françaisRégion AlsaceDépartement du Haut-RhinCC des 3 FrontièresCC du Jura AlsacienCC Porte de France Rhin SudCC Ill et GerspachCC du Pays de SierentzCC Porte SundgauRegio du Haut-Rhin

German Partners

Baden WürttembergLandkreis LörrachRegionalverband Hochrhein-BodenseeRegioGesellschaftSchwarzwald-OberrheinStadt Weil am Rhein

Swiss Partners

Kanton Basel-StadtKanton Basel-Landschaft Kanton AargauKanton Solothurn Gemeinde Allschwil (BL)Gemeinde Bettingen (BS)Gemeinde Reinach (BL)Gemeinde Münchenstein Gemeinde Riehen (BS)Stadt Rheinfelden (AG)REGIO BASILIENSISGewerbeverband BaselVorortskonferenz Baselland Basler Volkswirtschaftsbund

* The END *

Thank you for your attention

and

goodbye !