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Ongoing (updated on 02/06/2023)
Reference: 
INT/969-EESC
Plenary session: 
579 -
Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

This initiative will require companies to substantiate claims they make about the environmental footprint of their products/services by using standard methods for quantifying them. The aim is to make the claims reliable, comparable and verifiable across the EU – reducing ‘greenwashing’.

Ongoing (updated on 02/06/2023)
Reference: 
SOC/759-EESC-2023
Plenary session: 
579 -
Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

EESC section opinion: Cooperation on youth

Ongoing (updated on 02/06/2023)
Reference: 
REX/572-EESC
Plenary session: 
583 -
Dec 13, 2023 Dec 14, 2023

The main objective of this opinion is to deliver, eight years after its official launch, an EESC assessment of the state of play of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a soft-power tool through which China has assumed a new strategic geopolitical position on the world chessboard. In this context, the EESC needs to investigate what impact the BRI can have on the EU's policies such as twin transition, open strategic autonomy, access to critical technologies and critical raw materials, security and defence, TEN-T network, foreign direct investments, EU screening, etc.

 

Ongoing (updated on 02/06/2023)
Reference: 
ECO/609-EESC-2023
Plenary session: 
579 -
Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

Since 2016, as requested by the Council, every second year the Commission publishes a report on the implementation of the existing macro-regional strategies (MRS). This is the fourth report, covering the period from mid-2020 to mid-2022. It assesses the state of play and progress on implementing the MRS and examines ways forward especially in the context of the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 crisis. 

EESC section opinion: Implementation of EU macro-regional strategies

Ongoing (updated on 02/06/2023)
Reference: 
ECO/617-EESC-2023
Plenary session: 
579 -
Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

In its 2023 Work Programme, the European Commission announced a proposal for a second basket of new own resources, building inter alia on the proposal for a single set of tax rules for doing business in Europe (BEFIT). The aim of these measures will be to ensure more diversified and resilient types of revenue and avoid undue cuts to Union programmes or excessive increases in Member State contributions, in view of repaying the grant component of the NextGenerationEU recovery plan.

In view of the upcoming proposal that will be published in the third quarter of 2023, the European Commission requested the European Economic and Social Committee to provide an exploratory opinion on this subject in order to feed into the preparation of the Commission proposal.

EESC section opinion: Second set of new own resources

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