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Agriculture and Environment
The Agriculture and Environment theme includes large future-oriented issues, such as the Common Agriculture Policy, the Sustainable Development Strategy, the EU Forestry Strategy, as well as more specific and technical issues linked to waste management, animal health standards and aquaculture measures.
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Civil Society
By virtue of its role in the EU institutional set up, the EESC contributes to strenthening the democratic legitimacy of the EuropeanUnion by contributing to the development of a more participatory model of society acting both as a privileged interlocutor in the dialogue between civil society organisations and the European institutions and as organised civil society's institutional forum for representation, consultation, information and expression.
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Consumers
The Consumers theme is dealing with the consumer protection, with as major annual event the Consumer Day conference.
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Economics
The Economic theme covers a full range of issues like economic and monetary policy, financial markets, taxation and EU budget and the cohesion policy.
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Energy and Transport
The Energy and Transport theme covers a full range of issues relating to the various transport modes, the different forms of energy production, and major infrastructure networks.
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Enterprises and Industry
The Enterprises and Industry theme covers issues relating to industrial policy and change, services, enterprises and single market.
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Europe 2020
The Europe 2020 Strategy is the current EU reform agenda for growth and jobs. It aims at helping Europe to recover from the crisis and to transform it into a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy with high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion and at reinforcing the EU as an actor in global governance.
The current strategy pleas for a new kind of growth (smart, sustainable and inclusive), for a country-tailored approach and counts on stronger governance. Europe 2020 mobilises all existing EU policies (Single market, external policy, etc.), legislation, financial instruments as well as the coordination between member states. -
External Relations - Enlargement/EUNeighbours
The EESC's external action in Europe forms an integral part of the EU's foreign policy and complements the action taken by other institutions.
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External Relations - Other continents
The External relations – other continents theme covers issues relating to Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP countries), Asia, and Latin America.
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Information Society
The Information society theme deals with three main issues: e-accessibility, bridging the digital gap in Europe and protecting children, and helping people with disabilities to use computers and the new media.
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Institutional Reform
The institutional reform theme covers all of the EESC activities and contributions related to the treaty reform process since the Laeken Declaration of 15 December 2001 to the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty on 1 December 2009, and particularly during the Convention on the Future of Europe between February 2002 and July 2003.
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Social Affairs
The Social Affairs theme covers a broad range of issues including: Citizenship, Children, Culture, Disability, Education, Employment, Equal Opportunities, Health, Home Affairs, Immigration & Asylum, Justice, Poverty, Social Policy, Sport, The Elderly and Youth.
Those theme and sub-themes are mainly treated by the Section for Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship (SOC) and the Labour Market Observatory (LMO), with the participation of the different categories.
The Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) also intervene in the social aspects of industrial change.