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Adopted on 17/10/2017
Odkaz: 
SOC/603-EESC-2018-04028-00-00
Plenary session: 
538 -
Oct 17, 2018 Oct 18, 2018

In its opinion, the EESC welcomes the commitment to the renewed European Solidarity Corps (ESC) with an increased budget and target for participation. It also appreciates the merging with the EU Aid Volunteers. The Committee believes that in the future, the EU needs to develop two independent support programmes, one for youth and one for volunteering.

The EESC makes a series of concrete recommendations, such as: 1) the employment strand of the ECS needs to be subject to strict regulation and regular review; 2) there should be no age restriction on the ESC as it should be a support for volunteering; 3) the ESC should be restricted to the not for profit sector; 4)the main civil society platforms in the field (the European Youth Forum and the European Volunteering Centre) should be centrally involved in the regulation and oversight of the ESC.

EESC opinion: European Solidarity Corps (2018)

Ongoing (updated on 26/10/2018)
Odkaz: 
REX/510-EESC-2018

Composition of the study Group

Administrator in charge: Katarina Albrechtova | Assistant: Judith Landesz

Background info

All recently negotiated and implemented EU "new generation" free trade agreements (either stand-alone free trade agreements or free trade chapters within association agreements) include among others, a Trade and sustainable Development (TSD) chapter. These chapters usually foresee civil society mechanisms, called Domestic Advisory Groups (DAGs), in the EU and in the partner country or countries. Currently functioning DAGs are already in place within agreements with Korea, Colombia/Peru/Ecuador, Central America, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine, Canada.

Information memo: The role of Domestic Advisory Groups in monitoring the implementation of Free Trade Agreements

Ongoing (updated on 26/10/2018)
Odkaz: 
TEN/684-EESC-2018

Information memo: European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre and the Network of National Coordination Centres

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