Opinions

  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    REX/612-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Romania
    Workers - GR II
    Slovenia
    Plenary session number
    605
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 18/09/2025
    Nuoroda
    NAT/970-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Bulgaria
    Plenary session number
    605
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 02/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    ECO/694-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    604
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 16/09/2025
    Nuoroda
    TEN/862-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Romania
    Plenary session number
    604
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 17/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    NAT/971-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Spain
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Ireland
    Plenary session number
    604
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 17/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 02/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    NAT/978-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Netherlands
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    EESC opinion on GreenData4all.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 17/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    SOC/849-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Denmark
    Plenary session number
    605
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 16/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 02/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1116-EESC-04298-00-00-AC-TRA
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Croatia
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    This initiative aims to simplify EU legislation on medical devices and diagnostics to enhance competitiveness, foster innovation and ensure proportionate, cost-effective safety requirements while maintaining high levels of patient protection and public health.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 11/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    TEN/863-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Austria
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    The new European Grids Package seeks to strengthen and modernise the EU’s energy infrastructure, ensuring secure, affordable and increasingly clean energy flows across Member States. It introduces a more coordinated planning framework, accelerates permitting, and enhances investment to support a fully interconnected and future-proof European energy system.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 11/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 02/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1114-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    The Commission presents a proposal to enhance the control of drug precursors, the chemical substances that are used by both legitimate industries and in the production of illicit drugs. As Europe’s drug market evolves, the proposal strengthens authorities to respond to emerging drugs and production processes.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 09/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 02/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    ECO/695-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    605
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 08/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1108-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Germany
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    The opinion examines the digital omnibus, a set of two legislative proposals which focuses on bringing regulatory simplification and immediate relief to businesses active on digital.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 08/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 04/12/2025
    Nuoroda
    SOC/854-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Romania
    Plenary session number
    604
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 04/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1113-EESC-2025-03939-00-00
    Employers - GR I
    Romania
    Plenary session number
    605
    -

    The exploratory opinion examines how to balance the economic benefits of tourism with the protection of local communities by regulating short-term rentals, mitigating over-tourism, strengthening connectivity, and promoting sustainable, inclusive tourism across Europe.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 04/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 13/12/2022
    Nuoroda
    ECO/605-EESC-2025-02514
    Employers - GR I
    Italy
    (Poland
    Plenary session number
    603
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 04/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1109-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Slovakia
    Plenary session number
    605
    -

    The initiative revises the Cybersecurity Act to clarify ENISA’s mandate, strengthen EU cybersecurity certification, simplify legislation, and support a secure and resilient European supply chain and industrial base.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 02/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1110-EESC-03899-00-00-AC
    Workers - GR II
    Malta
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    The opinion analyses the legislative proposal on the EU Business Wallet  which aims at enabling secure digital identification, data sharing and legally valid notifications across the EU. Its purpose is to help economic operators manage regulatory requirements, cut administrative burdens and compliance costs. By ensuring interoperability with national systems, it also aims at supporting cross-border business, boosting SME competitiveness, fostering trust in digital interactions and advancing the EU’s digital single market.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 01/12/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    SOC/850-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    604
    -

    This opinion is prepared at the request of the incoming Cypriot Presidency of the EU. The EESC was invited to deliver an opinion on how the EU and its Member States can best:

    1. Introduce and promote effective tools, including AI-based solutions, to enhance the quality of employment and working conditions, ensuring transparency, fairness, and accountability in their use.

    2. Strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining as fundamental mechanisms for shaping fair and inclusive labour markets in a rapidly changing economic and technological context.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 28/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 16/09/2025
    Nuoroda
    NAT/968-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Ireland
    Employers - GR I
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    606
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 21/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1111-EESC-2025-03937-00-00
    Workers - GR II
    Bulgaria
    Plenary session number
    605
    -

    The upcoming Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU has asked the EESC to draw up an exploratory opinion aimed at providing insight and recommendation on the establishment of the European centre of clinical excellence for pharmaceuticals, with the view to serve as a unified, evidence-based authority issuing pharmacotherapy recommendations, guidelines, and protocols for a wide range of diseases. 

  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    REX/613-EESC
    Workers - GR II
    Austria
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Croatia
    Plenary session number
    605
    -
    • Infopack REX/613
  • Rengiamos (updated on 18/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    CCMI/253-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Germany
    (Belgium
    Plenary session number
    604
    -
  • Rengiamos (updated on 17/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1107-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    France
    Plenary session number
    605
    -

    The next Consumer Agenda 2025-2030, scheduled for adoption on 19 November 2025, will include a new action plan on consumers in the single market ensuring a balanced approach that protects consumers without overburdening companies with red tape.

  • Rengiamos (updated on 13/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 16/09/2025
    Nuoroda
    INT/1106-EESC
    Employers - GR I
    Germany
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Cyprus
    Plenary session number
    605
    -

    The European Commission (EC) is currently conducting an Evaluation of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 on market surveillance and compliance of products. 

  • Rengiamos (updated on 12/11/2025) - Bureau decision date: 22/10/2025
    Nuoroda
    SOC/851-EESC
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    605
    -