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  • Usvojeno on 14/12/2016 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/404-EESC-2016-01-01-00828-00-00-ac-tra
    (Czech Republic

    The Committee considers transparency essential as it is important for all parties, for the companies themselves, and for improving their image and boosting the trust of workers, consumers and investors. While the EESC recognises that most companies operating in the EU are indeed transparent and that investors and shareholders are increasingly paying attention to qualitative corporate social responsibility (CSR) indicators, it is important to focus simultaneously on both the effectiveness and scope of the information being filed and on its quality and veracity. The EESC believes that any further initiative on disclosure of information should include a common set of indicators and at the same time should take into consideration the nature of the company and the sector in which it is operating.

    EESC opinion: An appropriate framework for the transparency of companies (own-initiative opinion)
  • Usvojeno on 14/12/2016 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/403-EESC-2016-01-01-00899-00-01-ac-tra
    Employers - GR I
    Spain

    The EESC encourages the Commission to pursue its efforts to develop policy proposals aimed at promoting the creation of innovative and high growth firms. These policy proposals should strengthen the single market, reinforce the clusters and ecosystems in which innovative start-ups are created, develop the equity component of the European capital markets, encourage an academic agenda focusing on jobs for the future and minimise the cost and red tape involved in starting a new entrepreneurial venture.

    EESC opinion: Promoting innovative and high growth firms (own-initiative opinion)
  • Usvojeno on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/399-EESC-2016-01-01-00760-00-00-ac-tra
    (Czech Republic
    EESC opinion: A performance-based EU budget and its focus on real results: The key to sound financial management (own-initiative opinion)
    Article EU Budget - Zahradnik
    Article Europost 4.11.2016 - EU Budget
  • Usvojeno on 19/10/2016 - Bureau decision date: 24/05/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/408-EESC-2016-01-01-04274-00-01-ac-tra
    Workers - GR II
    Spain

    The EESC believes that the fight against terrorism and its financing and efforts to combat money laundering and other related forms of economic crime should be permanent EU policy priorities. These efforts should be linked more closely with the efforts needed to combat tax fraud and tax avoidance. Therefore, the EESC considers creating public national registers of the beneficial owners of bank accounts, businesses, trusts and transactions, and access to them by obliged entities, to be a priority. Furthermore, all obligations laid down in the Anti Money Laundering Directive should be extended to all territories or jurisdictions whose sovereignty resides with the Member States. And free trade and economic partnership agreements should include a chapter on measures to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing, tax fraud and tax avoidance.

    EESC opinion: Revision of anti- money-laundering directive
    Presentation "Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 2015/849"
  • Usvojeno on 21/09/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/407-EESC-2016-01-01-02391-00-00-ac-tra
    (Romania
    Workers - GR II
    Romania

    Fighting against tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning, both at the EU and at a global level, is an important political priority for the European Union. The EESC welcomes and endorses the Commission proposal, which aims to make the taxation system more transparent as this measure will boost public confidence. The EESC suggests that the Commission should aim for a more ambitious package. It proposes the disclosure of a wider range of data, the gradual reduction of the turnover threshold of EUR 750 Million and that the disclosed data is made publicly available in one of the official languages of the EU in order to achieve the objective of giving the public genuine access to data for the whole single market.

    EESC opinion: Proposal on public tax transparency (country-by-country reporting)
  • Usvojeno on 13/07/2016 - Bureau decision date: 15/03/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/406-EESC-2016-02343-00-01-ac-tra
    (Belgium
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy

    The EESC welcomes the "Action Plan on VAT", and calls for a  definitive VAT system that is clear, consistent, robust and comprehensive, as well as proportionate and future-proof. The Committee  welcomes the strong focus on closing the VAT gap and tackling the susceptibility of VAT to fraud. There should be results delivered without delay, including by improving cooperation between tax administrations. “Bona fide” enterprises should be protected and no new excessive measures should be imposed on them. The future system of reduced rates must combine flexibility and legal certainty, be transparent, and for the sake of simplicity the number of reduced rates and exemptions must be limited.

    EESC opinion: Action Plan on VAT
    VAT Action Plan - Measures to modernise VAT in the EU - Bertrand LAPALUS - DG TAXUD
  • Usvojeno on 27/04/2016 - Bureau decision date: 16/02/2016
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/405-EESC-2016-01-01-01284-00-00-AC-TRA
    Workers - GR II
    Romania
    (United Kingdom

    The EESC has in numerous opinions urged for a fair, efficient and growth-friendly corporate tax system, based on the principle that companies should pay taxes in the country where profits are generated. Thus, the Committee welcomes the Commission’s initiatives intended to combat aggressive tax planning and broadly supports the proposed measures as regards the essential elements of the two legislative proposals, the Anti-Tax-Avoidance-Directive as well as the Directive on Administrative Cooperation. It advocates for a more precise scope and framework in certain specific areas (such as e.g. the switch-over clause). The Committee urges to finish drawing up the list of countries or regions which refuse to apply good governance standards and considers that the envisaged legislative measures should not apply to SMEs.

    EESC opinion: The Anti Tax Avoidance Package
  • Usvojeno on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 08/12/2015
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/398-EESC-2016-00122-00-00-ac-tra
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Greece
    EESC opinion: Structural Reform Support Programme for the period 2017 to 2020 and amending Regulations (EU) No 1303/2013 and (EU) No 1305/2013
  • Usvojeno on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 08/12/2015
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/397-EESC-2015-01-01-06712-00-01-ac-tra
    (Austria
    (Belgium

    The EESC welcomes the establishment of economic priority programmes for the euro area at the start of the European Semester. To achieve a recovery of growth and employment a mix of financial, taxation, budgetary, economic and social policies is needed. In contrast to the recommendation of the Commission, the focus of fiscal policy should be designed to be more expansionist than neutral. The EESC advocates the reduction of taxation on labour insofar as it does not threaten the financial sustainability of social protection systems. The EESC calls for a coordinated effort to create a more business-friendly environment for SMEs through better regulation, adequate financing and facilitation of exports to markets outside the EU. There is a particular need to open up new funding opportunities for micro-enterprises and start-ups.

    EESC opinion: Economic policy of the euro area
  • Usvojeno on 16/03/2016 - Bureau decision date: 10/11/2015
    Referentni dokument
    ECO/395-EESC-2015-01-01-06711-00-00-ac-tra
    (Austria
    (Ireland

    Competitiveness is not an end in itself. It is only a sensible objective if it improves people's well-being in practice. The EESC therefore recommends that an updated definition of competitiveness ("competitiveness 2.0") be used in future, taking into account "the ability of a country to deliver the beyond-GDP goals for its citizens". The EESC urges that future discussions refer not to "competitiveness boards" but to "boards for competitiveness, social cohesion and sustainability". The EESC asks the Commission to present concrete proposals on how the following necessary requirements with regards to these boards can be safeguarded: accountability, legitimacy and transparency; representation of balanced unbiased expertise; non-binding character of proposals of the boards; inclusion of the dual role of wages, both as a cost factor and as the main determinant of domestic demand.

    EESC opinion: Establishment of National Competitiveness Boards within the Euro Area