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Second set of new own resources

En curso (updated on 03/03/2023)
Referencia: 
ECO/617-EESC
Rapporteur: 
Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Workers - GR II / Malta)
Pleno: 
580 -
Jul 12, 2023 Jul 13, 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.

Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Aprobados on 08/12/2021
Referencia: 
NAT/834-EESC-2021
Referral: 
COM(2021) 564 final 2021/0214 CODCOM(2021) 564 final 2021/0214 COD
Rapporteur: 
Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers - GR I/Spain), Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers - GR I/Spain) (Employers - GR I / Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
John COMER (Ireland)

This opinion will provide the civil society perspective on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. The main purposes of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) would be to discourage EU businesses from moving their production to countries with less ambitious climate change policies (carbon leakage) and to encourage a global move towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement.

Dictamen del CESE: Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), including maritime transport and Market Stability Reserve

Aprobados on 08/12/2021
Referencia: 
NAT/833-EESC-2021
Referral: 
COM(2021) 551 final 2021/0211 CODCOM(2021) 551 final 2021/0211 CODCOM(2021) 571 final 2021/0202 COD
Rapporteur: 
Stefan BACK (Employers - GR I / Sweden)

The EU ETS was launched in 2005 and covers about 45 % of EU greenhouse gas emissions. The latest revision of the EU ETS Directive, adopted in 2018, sets the total quantity of emission allowances for phase 4 (2021-2030), in line with what was the current EU emission reduction target at the time (40 % reduction below 1990 levels by 2030).

Dictamen del CESE: Revision of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), including maritime transport and Market Stability Reserve

NextGenerationEU funding strategy

Aprobados on 07/07/2021
Referencia: 
ECO/548-EESC-2021-02011
Referral: 
COM(2021) 250 final
Rapporteur: 
Judith VORBACH (Workers - GR II / Austria)

The Own Resources Decision (ORD) entered into force on 1 June, enabling the Commission to start borrowing resources for the Next Generation EU (NGEU) recovery instrument. For the EESC, a well-functioning funding strategy is key for the smooth implementation of NGEU. Sound and sustainable funding and solid risk management are in the very interests of civil society. Moreover, borrowing and debt management has to be based on democratic control, legitimacy and transparency.

The EESC stresses how important it is that the Commission manage the funding strategy directly and does not outsource this. The massive engagement on capital markets will be accompanied with a broad set of risks. The EESC supports the establishment of solid risk-management systems and the holding of the 'NGEU account' with the ECB.

Dictamen del CESE: NextGenerationEU funding strategy

Recovery plan for Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027

Aprobados on 15/07/2020
Referencia: 
ECO/523-EESC-2020-02886-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
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 COD
Rapporteur: 
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:

  1. to introduce an extraordinary financial recovery instrument as part of the multiannual financial framework
  2. 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).

Dictamen del CESE: Recovery plan for Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027

Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

Aprobados on 19/09/2018
Referencia: 
ECO/460-EESC-2018-02072-00-00
Referral: 
COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 326 final 2018/0131 NLECOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 328 final 2018/0133 NLE
Rapporteur: 
Javier DOZ ORRIT (Workers - GR II / Spain)

Europeans need more (and better) Europe. The powers and financial resources currently allocated to the EU have been increasingly misaligned with the concerns and expectations of Europeans. The EESC, in accordance with the European Parliament's position, therefore proposes that the expenditure and revenue figure reach 1.3% of GNI. The proposed level of commitments of 1.11% of the EU's GNI is too modest to credibly deliver on the political agenda of the EU.

The EESC recognises the high European added value of the programmes where the MFF 2021-2027 concentrates the main increases in expenditure. However, the Committee questions the fact that these increases are made at the cost of strong cuts in cohesion policy (-10%) and the Common Agricultural Policy – CAP (-15%).

Dictamen del CESE: Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

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