The EESC issues between 160 and 190 opinions 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.
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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.
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.
"The EESC:
supports and endorses the Commission proposal to promote measures to prevent the manipulation of wholesale energy markets and to make them more transparent. This provision is based on a joint study that the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and the European Regulators Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) were asked to carry out, which highlighted a number of regulatory gaps concerning the wholesale gas and energy market; ..."