Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) - 04/06/2025

Event type
Meeting

Location

JDE62

Programme of the meeting:

10:30 - 13:00

  1. Adoption of the draft agenda

  2. Approval of the minutes of the 116th CCMI meeting held on 6 March 2025
    EESC-2024-00449-00-00-PV-REF

  3. Welcome address by the CCMI president

  4. Debate on Our future and competitiveness – A Strategic Foresight, moderated by Srita HEIDE (DE, Cat. 3)

    Srita Heide will open and introduce the topic and then moderate the discussion with the following speakers:

  • Michael Jaeger: President Tax Payers Association Europe / Vice President Bund der Steuerzahler Deutschland e.V.
  • Giacomo Fersini: Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Eurochambres
  • Lucia Buvé: Environmental Expert, Executive Director NICOLE FOUNDATION
  • Klaus Welle: Former Secretary General, European Parliament; present Chair Academic Council, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies

  1. Adoption of the CCMI/239 draft opinion – EESC-2025-00169-00-00-PA-TRA

  • Reindustrialisation of Europe – opportunity for businesses, employees and citizens in the context of the cost-of-living crisis (own-initiative opinion)
  • Rapporteur: Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (ES, Gr.-I)
  • Co-rapporteur: Monika SITÁROVÁ (SK, Cat. 2)
  • Participant: Zuzana GENTNER-VAVROVA (Policy Officer in the Unit ‘Strategy: Single Market and Industrial Policy')

13:00 Lunch Break

14:30

  1. Debate on Toward a Preparedness Strategy Union, linked to Opinion SC/054

  • Ariane Rodert: Rapporteur of the EESC opinion SC/054
  • Gabriella Civico (online): President of Civil Society Europe
  • Boriša Falatar: Member of Commissioner Lahbib’s Cabinet file
  • Adrian van den Hoven: Director General of Medicines for Europe
  • Jan Willem Goudriaan: General Secretary of the European Public Service Union (EPSU)

  1. Adoption of the CCMI/240 draft opinion – EESC-2025-01074-00-00-PA-TRA

  • Critical Medicines Act (Mandatory referral opinion)
  • Rapporteur: Veselin MITOV (BG, Gr. II)
  • Co-rapporteur: Elżbieta SZADZIŃSKA (PL, Cat. 3)
  • Participant: Maja LEON-GRZYMKOWSKA (DG SANTE)

  1. Adoption of the CCMI/244 draft opinion – EESC-2025-00633-00-00-PA-TRA

  • European action plan on the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers (Optional referral)
  • Rapporteur: Alain COHEUR (BE, III)
  • Co-rapporteur: Hervé JEANNIN (FR, Cat. 2)

Participants:

  • Vinzenz HEUSSLER (Policy Officer at CNECT H2 – Cybersecurity and Digital Privacy Policy)
  • Jakub DYSARZ (Polish Council Presidency)
  • Thyra JART (DG SANTE)

  1. Adoption of the CCMI/248 draft opinion – EESC-2025-01445-00-01-PA-TRA

  • How to foster a resilient value chain for the EU chemical industry (Supplementary opinion)
  • Rapporteur: Veselin MITOV (BG-II)
  • Co-rapporteur: Marco MENSINK (NL-Cat. 1)

  1. Any other business

Date of the next meeting: 10 July 2025

Interpreting requested from BG/ES/CS/DE/EL/EN/FR/HR/IT/PL/SK Into BG/ES/DE/EL/EN/FR/IT/PL/SK (in presence only)