EESC's Consultative Commission on Industrial Change to celebrate its 20th anniversary

To mark its 20th anniversary, the EESC's Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI) will hold an event on 8 June, at the Charlemagne building in Brussels, to look at the challenges ahead for European industry. 

The conference will address the role of the CCMI within the EESC and vis-à-vis other European institutions, and will look at how the CCMI can provide added value and help ensure a successful green and digital transition for European industry. It will reflect on how the EESC can best contribute to finding responses to the challenges that all European industrial sectors are facing in order to remain competitive and the need to progress towards open strategic autonomy. 

The Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (known by its French acronym of CCMI, from Commission consultative des mutations industrielles) took up the legacy of the Consultative Committee of the European Coal and Steel Community in 2002, when the latter's 50-year treaty came to an end. As such, it is the oldest EU body devoted to forecasting the future and accompanying the transition of industrial sectors. It was established as a distinct commission within the European Economic and Social Committee. While the CCMI's core business is rooted in its historic mission of analysing industrial change in coal and steel, its remit has been progressively extended to encompass all industrial ecosystems, covering both manufacturing and services.

For more information, see https://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-events/events/ccmi-20th-anniversary (ks)