Information reports

  • Hyväksytyt on 27/04/2021 - Bureau decision date: 29/10/2020
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    NAT/806-EESC-2020-01-01
    Workers - GR II
    Hungary

    The Commission is undertaking a series of evaluations of the Common Agricultural Policy for the timeframe 2014-2020, assessing performance against the CAP's general objectives. Since the evaluation targets CAP socioeconomic impacts, representing a wide-ranging scope, the EESC provided a complementary evaluation focusing on five countries whose selection has been made together with the Commission in order to maximise complementarity and added value to the EC evaluation.

    Information report: Evaluation on the CAP's impact on territorial development of rural areas (Information report)
  • Hyväksytyt on 27/04/2021 - Bureau decision date: 28/10/2020
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    NAT/805-EESC-2020
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Spain

    The SUD can play a central role in the European Green Deal framework, being crucial to the Commission's Farm-to-Fork strategy for shifting to a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system, and complementary to both the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Zero Pollution Strategy.

    Information report: Evaluation on Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (Information report)
  • Hyväksytyt on 18/09/2020 - Bureau decision date: 20/02/2020
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    REX/530-EESC-2020-01-01-EESC-2020-01342-00-00-NIRI-TRA
    (Italy

    This Opinion was proposed to provide timely inputs to the evaluation the European Commission is carrying out to assess the impact of the EU-Colombia/Ecuador/Peru Trade Agreement. The purpose of the evaluation is to provide an evidence-based report assessing the impact of the implementation of the Agreement. The evaluation comes five years after the implementation of the Agreement with Colombia and Peru and two years after its implementation with Ecuador.

    For the EESC, through this opinion, the evaluation is an opportunity to propose improvements along the lines repeatedly put forward by the European DAG, made up of the EESC and other European organisations, and to echo the great efforts made by civil society organisations to take part in the follow-up to the Agreement, presenting numerous observations, complaints and proposals to the authorities, especially to the Sub-committee on Trade and Sustainable Development.

    Information report: Evaluation of the role of civil society in the participation structures under the European Union/Colombia/Peru/Ecuador Agreement (information report)
  • Hyväksytyt on 16/07/2020 - Bureau decision date: 16/07/2019
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    TEN/702-EESC-2019-01-01
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Information report: Evaluating the European Energy Union – The social and societal dimension of the energy transition
  • Hyväksytyt on 16/07/2020 - Bureau decision date: 22/01/2019
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    TEN/701-EESC-2019-01-01
    (Italy
    Information report: Evaluation on Trans European Network – Transport (TEN-T) guidelines 2013–2020
  • Hyväksytyt on 10/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2020
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    CCMI/172-EESC-2020-01-01
    Employers - GR I
    Romania
    (Italy

    The EESC welcomes the Commission's current efforts to analyse and possibly improve the performance of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC as part of its regulatory fitness and performance (REFIT) programme. The EESC consider that the Machinery Directive is a very important and successful instrument for European industry, and its basic approach must be left unchanged. While EESC agree some changes are needed, massive changes of the Machinery Directive, in particular to the Essential Health and Safety Requirements (EHSRs) in Annex I, would have a deep negative impact on the work of developing needed harmonised standards and must be avoided.

    Information report: Revision of the Machinery Directive
  • Hyväksytyt on 20/02/2020 - Bureau decision date: 20/02/2020
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    REX/526-EESC-2020
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Croatia
    Information report: Sustainable development in the Mediterranean region (information report)
  • Hyväksytyt on 11/12/2019 - Bureau decision date: 20/02/2019
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    REX/519-EESC-2019-01-01
    Employers - GR I
    Spain

    At the 2018 Euromed Summit, it was agreed that the next Information Report to be presented to the 2019 Summit of ESCs and Similar institutions will deal with the topic of the impact of digitalisation on SMEs in the Mediterranean area.

    The integration of millions of young graduates into the job market each year constitutes a major challenge for the countries of the Southern Mediterranean. Small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) play a decisive role in the fight against youth unemployment as they are important drivers of job creation and provide 80% of employment in the region.

    Information report: Digitalisation and SMEs in the Mediterranean region (information report)
  • Hyväksytyt on 11/12/2019 - Bureau decision date: 22/01/2019
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    NAT/767-EESC-2019-01597
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    France
    (Czech Republic
    Information report: Evaluation on Environmental Crime Directive
    Evaluation on the Environmental Crime Directive - Technical Appendix
  • Hyväksytyt on 30/10/2019 - Bureau decision date: 16/05/2019
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    ECO/499-EESC-2019-01-01
    (France

    The Information Report lays out the results of visits to 12 Member states, seeking policy input from organised civil society to the Semester process. It describes how the consultation in the Member states is often inadequate and tries to remedy this by direct, on the ground-contacts between the involved parts of civil society and the European level. It also argues why this novel way of working is a success, which should therefore be continued beyond the 12 Member states examined so far.

    Information report: 2018-2019 European Semester country visits (Information report)