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Next generation of own resources

In voorbereiding (updated on 25/09/2023)
Referentie: 
ECO/626-EESC
Referral: 
COM(2023) 330 final COM(2023) 331 final 2021/0430 CNS
Rapporteur: 
Katrīna ZARIŅA (Employers - GR I / Latvia)
Co-rapporteur: 
Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Workers - GR II/Malta)
Zitting: 
582 -
Oct 25, 2023 Oct 26, 2023

As committed during the negotiations on the long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the European Commission has on 20 June 2023 completed its proposal for a next generation of own resources. The package includes a new temporary statistical own resource based on company profits. The Commission  also proposes to adjust the own resources proposals based on the Emissions Trading System (ETS) and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) compared to the original proposals from December 2021.  

Mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework

Goedgekeurd on 20/09/2023
Referentie: 
ECO/625-EESC-2023-2023-03172
Referral: 
COM(2023) 336 final
Rapporteur: 
Elena-Alexandra CALISTRU (Diversity Europe - GR III/Romania), Konstantinos DIAMANTOUROS (Employers - GR I/Greece), Stefano PALMIERI (Workers - GR II/Italy) (Diversity Europe - GR III / Romania)
Zitting: 
581 -
Sep 20, 2023 Sep 21, 2023

The EESC has issued key recommendations for the mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2021-2027. The Committee calls for a prompt agreement on the MFF revision still this year, to guarantee continued financial backing of Ukraine and financing the EU´s evolving political priorities. However, the EESC criticizes the proposed changes as being too limited and lacking ambition, resembling mere patches. It advocates for long-term strategies centred on fiscal sustainability, efficient resource allocation, and measures to guard against unexpected events. Civil society should be engaged for effective planning and monitoring of MFF programmes.

advies EESC: Mid-term revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework

Second set of new own resources

Goedgekeurd on 14/06/2023
Referentie: 
ECO/617-EESC-2023
Rapporteur: 
Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Workers - GR II / Malta)
Zitting: 
579 -
Jun 14, 2023 Jun 15, 2023

The EESC emphasises that the designing of proposals for new sources of own revenues should be done in context of the budgetary pressures faced by Member States following the pandemic and the ongoing international tensions. This has become all the more important in the current higher interest rate environment. The EESC also emphasises that the second set of own resources measures should be in line with the proportionality and social fairness principles. An EU-wide tax on digital transactions could be potentially considered to increase own resources in case the agreed rules of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework are not respected by other major trading partners.

advies EESC: Second set of new own resources

Proposal for an own resources decision

Goedgekeurd on 18/05/2022
Referentie: 
ECO/561-EESC-2021-03929
Referral: 
COM(2021) 566 final COM(2021) 569 final 2021/0429 APPCOM(2021) 569 final 2021/0429 APPCOM(2021) 570 final 2021/0430 CNS
Rapporteur: 
Philip VON BROCKDORFF (Workers - GR II / Malta)
Co-rapporteur: 
Antonio GARCÍA DEL RIEGO (Employers - GR I/Spain)

The EESC considers that it is necessary to add new own resources to cover the debt repayment resulting from borrowing under the NextGenerationEU initiative without jeopardising the budgets of other EU programmes and instruments, or substantially increasing the Gross National Income (GNI)-based resource contribution. Although the Commission proposals as set out in the communication are deemed necessary, EESC believes that the Commission should ensure that the design of the new system is based on achieving equity and fairness, efficiency, transparency, simplicity and stability, with a focus on competitiveness and applying solidarity where necessary.

advies EESC: Proposal for an own resources decision

Recovery plan for Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027

Goedgekeurd on 15/07/2020
Referentie: 
ECO/523-EESC-2020-02886-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2020) 441 final 2020/0111 NLECOM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 442 final COM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 443 final 2018/0166 APPCOM(2020) 445 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 446 final 2020/0109 APPCOM(2020) 456 final COM(2020) 459 final 2018/0224 COD
Rapporteur: 
Petru Sorin DANDEA (Workers - GR II/Romania), Tommaso DI FAZIO (/Italy), Petr ZAHRADNÍK (/Czech Republic) (Workers - GR II / Romania)

The EESC strongly supports the Commission's proposal – Next Generation EU – as a specific tool for a quick and effective recovery.

The EESC takes a very positive view of the Commission's two main decisions:

  1. to introduce an extraordinary financial recovery instrument as part of the multiannual financial framework
  2. to raise common debt, which will be repaid over a long period of time, and prevent the extraordinary financial burden from falling directly on the Member States in the short run.

The EESC strongly welcomes the fact that the newly proposed instrument should be closely coordinated with the European Semester process, and furthermore welcomes the Commission's proposal to introduce additional genuine own resources based on different taxes (revenues from the EU Emissions Trading System, digital taxation, large companies' revenues).

advies EESC: Recovery plan for Europe and the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027

Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

Goedgekeurd on 19/09/2018
Referentie: 
ECO/460-EESC-2018-02072-00-00
Referral: 
COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 321 final COM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 322 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 325 final 2018/0135 CNSCOM(2018) 326 final 2018/0131 NLECOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 327 final 2018/0132 APPCOM(2018) 328 final 2018/0133 NLE
Rapporteur: 
Javier DOZ ORRIT (Workers - GR II / Spain)

Europeans need more (and better) Europe. The powers and financial resources currently allocated to the EU have been increasingly misaligned with the concerns and expectations of Europeans. The EESC, in accordance with the European Parliament's position, therefore proposes that the expenditure and revenue figure reach 1.3% of GNI. The proposed level of commitments of 1.11% of the EU's GNI is too modest to credibly deliver on the political agenda of the EU.

The EESC recognises the high European added value of the programmes where the MFF 2021-2027 concentrates the main increases in expenditure. However, the Committee questions the fact that these increases are made at the cost of strong cuts in cohesion policy (-10%) and the Common Agricultural Policy – CAP (-15%).

advies EESC: Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

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