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19/04/2018
Funding the European Pillar of Social Rights
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
ECO/457-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Anne DEMELENNE (Workers - GR II / Belgium)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

Making a reality of the European Pillar of Social Rights (the "Social Pillar")  will require improvements in Member States and a robust budgetary base, investment and current spending.

More public investment within Member States can be facilitated by reference to a Golden Rule for public investment with a social objective, which would allow more flexibility in budget rules with a view to achieving the aims of the European Pillar of Social Rights. More public investment can also be supported by the use of existing EU instruments, especially the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs), and by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). This support should explicitly include objectives linked to the Social Pillar.

Appropriate taxation policies, including effective fight against tax fraud, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning, should allow Member States and the EU to raise additional means to contribute to the financing of the Social Pillar.

Funding the European Pillar of Social Rights

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19/04/2018
Achieving low emission mobility targets (Communication)
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
TEN/655-EESC-2017-EESC-2017-05986-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2017) 675 final
Rapporteur: 
Ulrich SAMM (Employers - GR I / Germany)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

The EESC considers that the strong position of the European industry must be maintained and used to accelerate, transform and consolidate the EU economy's clean energy transition, with the important goal of achieving leadership in new technologies on the world market.

The Committee welcomes the general technology-neutral approach, notes, however, that it is far from sure that our future mobility will be all-electric, and other propulsion technologies, such as hydrogen or completely fossil-free liquid fuels, also provide big potential for clean mobility.

The EESC welcomes the initiatives intended to restore consumer confidence in the automotive industry and the regulatory system by means of realistic emission standards and new test procedures.

EESC opinion: Achieving low emission mobility targets (Communication)

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19/04/2018
Better Regulation/state of play
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
INT/838-EESC-2017-06085-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2017) 651 final
Rapporteur: 
Bernd DITTMANN (Employers - GR I / Germany)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

The EESC is of the view that the Better Regulation Agenda should become a permanent programme in delivering high-quality Union legislation without undermining key policy objectives or creating deregulation pressure.

EESC opinion: Better Regulation/state of play

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19/04/2018
Strengthening Europe's energy networks
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
TEN/656-EESC-2017
Referral: 
COM(2017) 718 final
Rapporteur: 
Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers - GR I / Spain)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

In response to the European Commission's communication on "Strengthening Europe's energy networks" (COM(2017)718 final), the European Economic and Social Committee shares the view that a sufficiently interconnected European energy grid is a prerequisite for achieving the aim of the Energy Union: to provide affordable, secure and sustainable energy that makes the energy transition to a low-carbon economy possible in a competitive way; considers that investments in grid infrastructure should be implemented with the same intensity as other energy investments, and in particular in coordination with the expansion of renewables; calls on the Commission and the Member States to draw up two-yearly monitoring reports on the achievement of the renewable development targets and national and transnational network; suggests that actively involving organised civil society in the design phases of the interconnection projects can help to mitigate the lack of public support for some projects; recomm

Strengthening Europe's energy networks

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19/04/2018
Third report on the State of the Energy Union
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
TEN/657-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2017) 688 final - Third Report on the State of the Energy Union Annex 1: Updated roadmap for the Energy Union – state of play: 23 November 2017Annex 2: Policy observations at Member State, Regional and EU LevelAnnex 3: State of Progress towards the National Energy and Climate PlansAnnex 4: Progress in Accelerating Clean Energy Innovation
Rapporteur: 
TONI VIDAN (Various interests - GR III / Croatia)
Co-rapporteur: 
CHRISTOPHE QUAREZ (Workers - GR II/France)
Plenary session: 
534 - Apr 19, 2018

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

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19/04/2018
EU Action Plan 2017-2019 - Tackling the gender pay gap
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
SOC/571-EESC-2018-00304-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2017) 678 finalCOM(2017) 671 final
Rapporteur: 
Demelenne (Workers - GR II / Belgium)
Co-rapporteur: 
Drbalová (Employers - GR I/Czech Republic)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

The EESC welcomes the efforts made by the EC to address the persistent pay gap between men and women by proposing an Action Plan with eight areas for action, but finds that each area should be further developed. It is important to look at the stereotypes that affect career choices, as well as to the underlying causes of labour market segregation, in order to counter them. It agrees with the EC proposal for pay transparency and pay audits to be introduced in order to facilitate the collection of individualised data and develop appropriate action plans at sector and business level. Moreover, it welcomes the EC recognition of the crucial role social partners play in this, while also highlighting the contribution of civil society organisations. Finally, it insists on the need to obtain additional resources, as part of the Multiannual Financial Framework, to implement the Action Plan, including the financing of childcare facilities and long-term care services.

EESC opinion: EU Action Plan 2017-2019 - Tackling the gender pay gap

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19/04/2018
Economic and Monetary Union Package
Adopted
Referentni dokument: 
ECO/446-EESC-2017-05489-00-00-ac-tra
Referral: 
COM(2017) 821 finalCOM(2017) 822 finalCOM(2017) 823 finalCOM(2017) 824 finalCOM(2017) 827 final
Rapporteur: 
Mihai IVASCU (Various interests - GR III / Romania)
Co-rapporteur: 
Stefano PALMIERI (Workers - GR II/Italy)
Plenary session: 
534 -
Apr 18, 2018 Apr 19, 2018

The EESC appreciates the proposed roadmap for completing the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) but its support is not full and enthusiastic, since a number of social, political and economic issues, highlighted in our previous opinions, were not taken into consideration. The completion of the EMU requires first of all strong political commitment, efficient governance and better use of the available finances, in order to actually cope with both risk reduction and risk sharing among Member States. For these reasons the EESC underlines that the principles of responsibility and solidarity at EU level should go hand in hand.

Information memo: Economic and Monetary Union Package

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