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EU Strategy for Energy System Integration

Goedgekeurd on 27/01/2021
Referentie: 
TEN/717-EESC-2020
Referral: 
COM(2020) 299 final
Rapporteur: 
Lutz RIBBE (Diversity Europe - GR III / Germany)

The European Economic and social Committee (EESC) supports the Commission's intention as set out in its Communication: integration of the electricity system with the heat and transport system is vital to reach the goals of climate neutrality, security of energy supply, including reduction of energy imports, and the goal of affordable prices for Europe's consumers and the European economy.

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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

New institutional framework for energy and climate policy by 2025

Goedgekeurd on 26/09/2019
Referentie: 
TEN/694-EESC-2019
Referral: 
COM(2019) 177 final
Rapporteur: 
Baiba MILTOVIČA (Diversity Europe - GR III / Latvia)
Co-rapporteur: 
Dumitru FORNEA (Workers - GR II/Romania)

The EESC welcomes the proposal to use the passerelle clauses to establish a qualified majority in the Council and a co-decision system with the European Parliament. In this new set-up, the EESC could play an important role in supporting the trilogue and should be involved.

advies EESC: New institutional framework for energy and climate policy by 2025

Report on the State of the Energy Union

Goedgekeurd on 17/07/2019
Referentie: 
TEN/695-EESC-2019-01938
Referral: 
COM(2019) 175 final COM(2019) 175 final
Rapporteur: 
Christophe QUAREZ (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.

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Transport, energy and services of general interest as drivers of sustainable European growth through the digital revolution (own-initiative opinion)

Goedgekeurd on 17/07/2019
Referentie: 
TEN/691-EESC-2019
Rapporteur: 
Alberto MAZZOLA (Italy)
Co-rapporteur: 
Evangelia KEKELEKI (Greece)

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Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2021-2025 complementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

Goedgekeurd on 12/12/2018
Referentie: 
TEN/678-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 437 final 2018/0226 NLECOM(2018) 437 final 2018/0226 NLE
Rapporteur: 
Giulia BARBUCCI (Workers - GR II / Italy)

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) welcomes the proposal for a regulation for the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) research and training programme 2021-2025.

The EESC considers the EURATOM budget to be proportionate to the objectives set and considers it essential to maintain this financial allocation regardless of the outcome of the Brexit negotiations. The Committee also considers it crucial in this respect to manage the United Kingdom's exit from the Euratom programme with the utmost care, particularly with regard to research already in progress, shared infrastructure and the social impact on staff  (e.g. working conditions) both on British soil and elsewhere.

advies EESC: Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community for the period 2021-2025 complementing Horizon Europe – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation

The effects of a new carbon-free, decentralised and digitalised energy supply structure on jobs and regional economies (own initiative opinion)

Goedgekeurd on 11/07/2018
Referentie: 
TEN/660-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Lutz Ribbe (Diversity Europe - GR III / Germany)
Zitting: 
536 -
Jul 11, 2018 Jul 12, 2018

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.

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Strengthening Europe's energy networks (communication)

Goedgekeurd on 18/04/2018
Referentie: 
TEN/656-EESC-2017
Referral: 
COM(2017) 718 final
Rapporteur: 
Andrés BARCELÓ DELGADO (Employers - GR I / Spain)

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

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