This opinion will examine how to support the competitiveness of European automotive manufacturers and the overall enabling conditions, including targeted financing, regulatory simplification, ensuring the availability of skilled workforce and how to improve its supply chain resilience. It will also examine how to make electric vehicle battery cells and components production in the EU cost-competitive in the short term. Finally, it will look at autonomous driving technologies and the regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.
W toku (updated on 15/05/2025) - Bureau decision date: 16/01/2024
This opinion is prepared at the request of the upcoming Danish Presidency, which suggested that "The opinion could explore good national practices or policies fostering active and inclusive prevention strategies to ensure safer and healthier long-term workplaces in order to live up to the Zero death EU goal. The opinion could look at measures linked to social dialogue and social partners participation as well as on implementation and enforcement of Health and safety regulations in member states."
W toku (updated on 14/05/2025) - Bureau decision date: 23/01/2025
In the political guidelines of the new Commission, it was announced that the EEAS and the European Commission are working on a White Paper on the Future of European Defence, expected in the first 100 days of the mandate. The objective of the White Paper is to frame the new approach on defence and identify our investment needs.
Defence budgets are still predominantly spent on a national basis. A fraction of equipment spending in Europe is devoted to EU joint procurement. And the vast majority of defence acquisitions by Member States are still made from outside Europe.
W toku (updated on 14/05/2025) - Bureau decision date: 21/01/2025
EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a cornerstone of the EU's climate policy, requiring polluters to pay for their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under a “cap and trade” principle. Complementing this, the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aims to prevent carbon leakage by setting a price on the carbon emitted during the production of carbon intensive goods entering the EU and avoid the relocation of industries to higher-emitting regions encouraging cleaner industrial production in non-EU countries. This OIO will analyse the impact of EU ETS and CBAM on port competitiveness, examining some of the actual case studies of their implementation.
W toku (updated on 07/05/2025) - Bureau decision date: 18/01/2024
