Vedtaget on 23/03/2022
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REX/536-EESC-2021Rapporteur:
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Mar 23, 2022 Mar 24, 2022
A post COVID-19 emergency: the design of a New Multilateral Matrix (own-initiative opinion) - Related Opinions
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Vedtaget on 20/10/2021
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REX/535-EESC-2021Rapporteur:
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Vedtaget on 07/07/2021
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REX/539-EESC-2021Rapporteur:
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Jul 07, 2021 Jul 08, 2021
Trade Policy Review - An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy
Vedtaget on 30/10/2019
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SC/53-EESC-2019-02446Rapporteur:
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The proposed opinion will look at new approaches to more fairly distributing the burden of transformation towards a sustainable Europe.
Vedtaget on 26/09/2019
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NAT/760-EESC-2019-00917Rapporteur:
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Vedtaget on 17/07/2019
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CCMI/167-EESC-2019Rapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Enrico GIBELLIERI (Italy)
European industrial, energy and climate policy is hampered by contradictory requirements on the price for Greenhouse effect Gas (GHG) emissions: on the one hand, high prices would be necessary to incentivise investment and changes in consumption patterns; on the other, the preservation of the external competitiveness of EU energy-intensive industries, as well as the prevention of “carbon leakage”, would require low prices.
The proposed own-initiative report investigates the technical and legal feasibility of Border Adjustment Measures for the internal price of GHG emissions: importers pay the price, exporters get it refunded, as it already is the case for VAT. The refund of the GHG emission price to exporters could be based on a VAT-like accounting system. The GHG emission price paid by importers could be based on the basic metals and materials content of the product. This system would be in line with WTO rules, and rely upon fully proven methodologies.
Vedtaget on 23/01/2019
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REX/509-EESC-2018Rapporteur:
Emmanuelle BUTAUD-STUBBS (France)
The European Economic and Social Committee would like to reiterate its commitment to the WTO as the guardian of international trade and a crucible for developing rules and disciplines to ensure fair trade, the liberalisation of trade in goods and services, and transparency in trade-related policy-making.
Vedtaget on 12/12/2018
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REX/501-EESC-2017Rapporteur:
Philippe DE BUCK (Belgium)
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Vedtaget on 17/10/2018
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ECO/456-EESC-2018-01695-00-00Referral:
COM(2018) 97 final Rapporteur:
Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ (Spain)
The EESC supports the Commission's Action Plan on financing sustainable growth, aimed at reorienting capital flows towards sustainable investment, and welcomes the legislative proposals stemming from it, on fiduciary duties, a taxonomy and benchmarks. The proposed gradual approach for its implementation, beginning with the work on a European sustainability taxonomy, is preferable. However, a subsequent extension of the initial taxonomy, based on environmental aspects, to social sustainability and governance goals will be necessary. Attention should be paid to the feasibility and proportionality of legal obligations.
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Vedtaget on 17/10/2018
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NAT/735-EESC-2018-01241Rapporteur:
Finance needs to be mobilised to serve the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, create jobs and enable Europe to have a leadership in climate technologies. Moreover, money flows need to be re-directed from polluting technologies towards innovative solutions that will help Europe close the emissions gap. Admittedly, these investments will all be profitable in the long run, but how to "prime the pump"? The EESC's own-initiative opinion on the European Finance-Climate Pact will suggest solutions that can make it happen.
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