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ECO/500-EESC-2019-03060-00-00-AC-TRARapporteur:
Ester VITALE (Italy)
553rd Plenary session, 15-16 July 2020 - Related Opinions
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ECO/512-EESC-2020Rapporteur:
The EESC believes that there are well-founded reasons to establish uniform rules within the EU to combat global warming and based on these to embark on international discussions with other trading blocs. Furthermore, the Committee deems that, in the future, it could be useful and necessary to also devise new taxation measures that can supplement the current emissions trading system and national carbon taxes in order to achieve an effective and symmetrical policy framework to tackle the increasing amount of CO2 emissions.
Adopted on 15/07/2020
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ECO/527-EESC-2020-02808-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2020) 408 final 2020/0104 CODCOM(2020) 408 final 2020/0104 CODCOM(2020) 409 final 2020/0103 CODCOM(2020) 409 final 2020/0103 CODGeneral Rapporteur:
Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers - GR I)
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ECO/523-EESC-2020-02886-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2020) 441 final 2020/0111 NLECOM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 445 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 456 final COM(2020) 459 final 2018/0224 CODRapporteur:
Petru Sorin DANDEA (Workers - GR II/Romania), Tommaso DI FAZIO (/Italy), Petr ZAHRADNÍK (/Czech Republic) (Workers - GR II / Romania)
The EESC strongly supports the Commission's proposal – Next Generation EU – as a specific tool for a quick and effective recovery.
The EESC takes a very positive view of the Commission's two main decisions:
- to introduce an extraordinary financial recovery instrument as part of the multiannual financial framework
- to raise common debt, which will be repaid over a long period of time, and prevent the extraordinary financial burden from falling directly on the Member States in the short run.
The EESC strongly welcomes the fact that the newly proposed instrument should be closely coordinated with the European Semester process, and furthermore welcomes the Commission's proposal to introduce additional genuine own resources based on different taxes (revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System, digital taxation, large companies' revenues).
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INT/894-EESC-2020Referral:
COM(2020) 65 final Rapporteur:
The EESC congratulates the Commission's for its strategy to encourage the uptake of AI technologies while also ensuring their compliance with European ethical norms, legal requirements and social values.
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NAT/784-EESC-2020-1431Referral:
COM(2020) 80 final 2020/0036 CODRapporteur:
Co-rapporteur:
Tellervo KYLÄ-HARAKKA-RUONALA (Finland)
This EESC opinion will respond to the European Commission's proposal for a regulation on establishing a European Climate Law and it will look into the role of citizens in driving the transformation towards climate neutrality.
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ECO/513-EESC-2020Rapporteur:
While the recovery after COVID-19 crisis is a top priority, the EESC stresses that this should not steer the EU away from its medium and long-term objectives, as outlined in the European Green Deal, 2020 Sustainable Growth Strategy, and the European Pillar for Social Rights. There is a need for a resilient, technology-driven European economy that is defined by the protection of the environment. The EESC underlines that strategies aimed at enhanced economic sustainability need to be developed around productivity, but they cannot be allowed to happen at the expense of workers' rights and social development. The EESC advocates for re-thinking supply chains, underlines that social aspects should be emphasised, start-ups should be encouraged and that the cornerstone of sustainable economic growth in the EU should be the creation and development of a truly circular economy. Open dialogue with social partners and civil society remains key to setting the economic direction.
Adopted on 15/07/2020
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ECO/528-EESC-2020-02866-00-00-AC-TRAReferral:
COM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 403 final 2020/0108 CODCOM(2020) 404 final 2020/0106 CODGeneral Rapporteur:
Ronny LANNOO (Diversity Europe - GR III)
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INT/895-EESC-2020Rapporteur:
Antonello PEZZINI (Italy)
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The Commission's new Circular Economy Action Plan focuses on sustainable products, less waste, product value chains, and circularity in regions and cities, and the global level.
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