European Economic
and Social Committee
European Economic
and Social Committee
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is the voice of organised civil society in Europe.
Find out more about its role and structure at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/about
The EESC issues between 160 and 190 opinions, evaluation and information reports a year.
It also organises several annual initiatives and events with a focus on civil society and citizens’ participation such as the Civil Society Prize, the Civil Society Days, the Your Europe, Your Say youth plenary and the ECI Day.
Find the latest EESC opinions and publications at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/opinions-information-reports/opinions and http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/our-work/publications-other-work/publications respectively.
The EESC is active in a wide range of areas, from social affairs to economy, energy and sustainability.
Learn more about our policy areas and policy highlights at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/policies
The EESC holds nine plenary sessions per year. It also organises many conferences, public hearings and high-level debates related to its work.
Find out more about our upcoming events at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/agenda/our-events/upcoming-events
Here you can find news and information about the EESC'swork, including its social media accounts, the EESC Info newsletter, photo galleries and videos.
Read the latest EESC news http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/news and press releases http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/news-media/press-releases
The EESC brings together representatives from all areas of organised civil society, who give their independent advice on EU policies and legislation. The EESC's326 Members are organised into three groups: Employers, Workers and Various Interests.
Find out more about our Members and groups at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/members-groups
The EESC has six sections, specialising in concrete topics of relevance to the citizens of the European Union, ranging from social to economic affairs, energy, environment, external relations or the internal market.
Find out more at http://www.eesc.europa.eu/en/sections-other-bodies
O Comité insta a Comissão Europeia a realizar avaliações de impacto mais específicas das suas propostas de novas fontes de financiamento do orçamento da UE destinadas a reembolsar a dívida contraída no âmbito do Instrumento de Recuperação da UE (NextGenerationEU).
O CESE concorda, de modo geral, com a proposta de receitas de «recursos próprios» da UE para o orçamento. No entanto, estas devem ser estáveis e justas e não devem sobrecarregar os agregados familiares nem as empresas.
Num parecer adotado na reunião plenária de maio, o CESE insta também a Comissão a assegurar que as suas propostas são capazes de resistir a choques económicos e alerta para a possibilidade de estas propostas serem ineficazes perante as consequências do aumento dos custos da energia devido à guerra na Ucrânia.
«A conceção dos novos recursos próprios não deve comprometer os orçamentos dos outros programas e instrumentos da UE nem aumentar os recursos baseados nas contribuições em função no RNB», afirmou Philip von Brockdorff, relator do parecer. O correlator Antonio García del Riego acrescentou: «O CESE aplaude os esforços da OCDE para garantir que as empresas mundiais sejam tributadas onde ocorrem as atividades económicas e de criação de valor, mas adverte que a aplicação das novas regras antes dos principais parceiros comerciais não deve colocar as empresas da UE em desvantagem concorrencial». (tk)