sentences:  For dealing with issues such as local cross-cross-border spatial planning or transport policy, in the 1960s and 1970s various bi-lateral and multi-lateral governmental commissions were established without granting access to local authorities (Aykaç 1994).They dealt with issues such as local cross-border spatial planning and transport policy.But over the last thirty years the scope for non-central governments (NCGs) to co-operate across borders has widened considerably.