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Valmisteilla (updated on 08/06/2023)
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SOC/747-EESC-2022
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Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

The EESC asserts that businesses and workers must have proper channels for participating in efforts to support environmental protection and combat climate change. While respecting the role of national industrial relations systems and the autonomy of the social partners, the EESC considers that issues related to the green transition could be a stronger focus of collective bargaining at the appropriate levels. It highlights collective bargaining as a key tool that can help companies and workers face the challenges of the climate crisis, including the derived costs for companies.

ETSK:n jaoston lausunto: Green collective bargaining

Valmisteilla (updated on 08/06/2023)
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INT/969-EESC-2022
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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’.

ETSK:n jaoston lausunto: Green claims

Valmisteilla (updated on 07/06/2023)
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ECO/617-EESC-2023
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Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

The EESC emphasises that the designing of proposals for new sources of own revenues should be done in context of the budgetary pressures faced by Member States following the pandemic and the ongoing international tensions. This has become all the more important in the current higher interest rate environment. The EESC also emphasises that the second set of own resources measures should be in line with the proportionality and social fairness principles. An EU-wide tax on digital transactions could be potentially considered to increase own resources in case the agreed rules of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework are not respected by other major trading partners.

ETSK:n jaoston lausunto: Second set of new own resources

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