The EESC issues between 160 and 190 opinions and information reports a year.
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The EESC brings together representatives from all areas of organised civil society, who give their independent advice on EU policies and legislation. The EESC's326 Members are organised into three groups: Employers, Workers and Various Interests.
The EESC has six sections, specialising in concrete topics of relevance to the citizens of the European Union, ranging from social to economic affairs, energy, environment, external relations or the internal market.
Download — The territorial governance of industrial change: the role of the social partners and the contribution of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (own-initiative opinion)
Download — SUPPLEMENTARY OPINION of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) on Implementing the Community Lisbon Programme: A policy framework to strengthen EU manufacturing - towards a more integrated approach for industrial policy COM(2005) 474...
On 8 February 2005, the European Economic and Social Committee, after a request received on February 2005 from the next UK's Presidency of the EU approved to draw an exploratory opinion on Ethical Trade and Consumer Assurance Schemes.
Download — Ethical Trade and Consumer Assurance Schemes
Download — INFORMATION REPORT of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change on Industrial change in the EU and China - lessons learnt from the cooperation between the European Economic and Social Committee and its Chinese counterpart
Download — COMPLEMENTARY OPINION of the Consultative Commission on Industrial Change to the opinion of the Section for Single Market, Production and Consumption on the Communication on "Science and technology, key to the future of Europe - Guidelines for policy r...