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  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 14/06/2023 - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2023
    Reference
    ECO/609-EESC-2023
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Employers - GR I
    Greece
    Plenary session number
    579
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    Since 2016, as requested by the Council, every second year the Commission publishes a report on the implementation of the existing macro-regional strategies (MRS). This is the fourth report, covering the period from mid-2020 to mid-2022. It assesses the state of play and progress on implementing the MRS and examines ways forward especially in the context of the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 crisis. 

    EESC opinion: Implementation of EU macro-regional strategies
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 22/03/2023 - Bureau decision date: 25/10/2022
    Reference
    TEN/791-EESC-2022
    Plenary session number
    577
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    EESC opinion: State of the Energy Union 2022
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 26/10/2022 - Bureau decision date: 20/01/2022
    Reference
    TEN/770-EESC-2022
    EESC opinion: A strategic vision on energy transition to enable the EU's strategic autonomy
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 19/01/2022 - Bureau decision date: 21/09/2021
    Reference
    ECO/565-EESC-2021
    (Sweden
    Workers - GR II
    France
    EESC opinion: Revision of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD)
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 10/06/2020 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2020
    Reference
    ECO/504-EESC-2020
    (Italy
    (Czech Republic
    EESC opinion: Just Transition Fund and amendments to the Common Provisions Regulation
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 17/07/2019 - Bureau decision date: 19/03/2019
    Reference
    TEN/695-EESC-2019-01-01-01938
    Workers - GR II
    France

    The EESC takes note of the Fourth Report on the State of the Energy Union (SEU), supports the objectives of the Energy Union and welcomes the emphasis on the engagement and mobilisation of EU society to take full ownership of the Energy Union.

    EESC opinion: Report on the State of the Energy Union
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 11/07/2018
    Reference
    TEN/660-EESC-2018
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Germany
    Plenary session number
    536
    -

    The key message of the opinion is that transforming the energy system towards carbon-free, decentralised and digitalised supply offers enormous opportunities, in particular for structurally weak and rural regions in Europe. The development of renewable energy (RE) can have a major and beneficial impact on employment, and can be configured so as to provide a completely new stimulus for the regional economy. There is therefore potential for mutually reinforcing the positive effects of Europe's energy and cohesion policies. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) finds it regrettable that both the Commission and the Member States have yet to properly recognise this potential, let alone exploit it.

    EESC opinion: The effects of a new carbon-free, decentralised and digitalised energy supply structure on jobs and regional economies (own initiative opinion)
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 19/04/2018 - Bureau decision date: 05/12/2017
    Reference
    TEN/653-EESC-2018
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Latvia
    EESC opinion: Common rules for the internal market in natural gas (amendment)
  • Tuairimí a glacadh on 19/04/2018
    Reference
    TEN/657-EESC-2018
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Croatia
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Plenary session number
    534

    The European Economic and Social Committee welcomes the opportunity to provide an opinion on the Third report on State of the Energy Union by the European Commission, as it did before for the first and second reports. As expressed in previous opinions, the EESC strongly supports the idea of a European Energy Union and would like to stress that the Energy Union is not only relevant to sectoral policies such as energy, transport and climate but offers opportunities to make Europe more democratic, more cohesive, more competitive, and more just.

    EESC opinion: Third report on the State of the Energy Union
  • The Moravian-Silesian Region as a testing ground

    While the EU is increasing its ambitions under the "Fit for 55" package, Europe's coal regions in transition are facing unprecedented structural change, exacerbated by the major energy crisis resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the damage caused by the COVID -19 pandemic.