537th Plenary session, 19-20 September 2018 - Related Opinions

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Action Plan on Sustainable Finance (communication)

Prijaté on 17/10/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
ECO/456-EESC-2018-01695-00-00
Referral: 
COM(2018) 97 final
Rapporteur: 
Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ (Spain)

The EESC supports the Commission's Action Plan on financing sustainable growth, aimed at reorienting capital flows towards sustainable investment, and welcomes the legislative proposals stemming from it, on fiduciary duties, a taxonomy and benchmarks. The proposed gradual approach for its implementation, beginning with the work on a European sustainability taxonomy, is preferable. However, a subsequent extension of the initial taxonomy, based on environmental aspects, to social sustainability and governance goals will be necessary. Attention should be paid to the feasibility and proportionality of legal obligations.

Stanovisko EHSV: Action Plan on Sustainable Finance (communication)

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Article by Carlos Trias, rapporteur

Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
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%).

Stanovisko EHSV: Multiannual Financial Framework after 2020

Trust, privacy and consumer security in the Internet of Things (IoT) (own-initiative opinion)

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
INT/846-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Carlos TRIAS PINTÓ (Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers - GR I/Greece)

The Internet of Things (IoT), thanks to its interconnectivity of persons and objects, offers a vast range of opportunities for individuals and businesses. These opportunities must be backed by a series of safeguards and controls so as to ensure introduction of the IoT is problem-free. With this opinion the EESC aims to  promote awareness-raising and digital capacity-building initiatives and calls inter alia on the European institutions and EU Member States to ensure that security and privacy are protection by building appropriate regulatory frameworks that contain strict monitoring and control provisions.

Stanovisko EHSV: Trust, privacy and consumer security in the Internet of Things (IoT) (own-initiative opinion)

Artificial intelligence for Europe (communication)

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
INT/851-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 237 final
Rapporteur: 
Giuseppe GUERINI (Diversity Europe - GR III / Italy)
Co-rapporteur: 
Gonçalo LOBO XAVIER (Employers - GR I/Portugal)

The EESC believes that AI and automation processes have enormous potential to improve European society in terms of innovation and positive transformation, but they also pose significant challenges, risks and concerns.

Stanovisko EHSV: Artificial intelligence for Europe (communication)

Access to social protection

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
SOC/581-EESC-2018-02514
Referral: 
COM(2018) 132 final 2018/0059 NLE
Rapporteur: 
Giulia BARBUCCI (Workers - GR II / Italy)

The EESC supports the proposal for a Council Recommendation on access to social protection for workers and the self-employed. A proper coverage of workers in non-standard forms of work and the self-employed would be in line with the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Access to social protection systems is key for fairer societies. The main outcomes would be: increasing the mutualisation of risk, income security, labour market dynamism, higher productivity, better allocation of resources, and reducing insecurity and poverty for individuals.

Stanovisko EHSV: Access to social protection

Fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
TEN/662-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 238 final 2018/0112 COD
Rapporteur: 
Marco VEZZANI (Italy)

The EESC welcomes the Commission's proposal for a regulation and considers it to be an important first step towards promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services. The EESC believes that this proposal is particularly important because it constitutes the first attempt to regulate B2B relations in the area of e-commerce, and recommends that it be approved swiftly in order to plug a clear legislative gap.

Stanovisko EHSV: Fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services

Regulation on European Territorial Cooperation 2021-2027

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
ECO/464-EESC-2018-02789-00-00-AC-TRA
Referral: 
COM(2018) 374 final 2018/0199 CODCOM(2018) 374 final 2018/0199 COD
Rapporteur: 
Henri MALOSSE (France)

The EESC underlines European territorial cooperation (ETC) is a unique instrument of cohesion policy and one of the very few frameworks in which national, regional and local players from different Member States are systematically called upon to carry out joint measures and exchange practices and strategies.

 

Stanovisko EHSV: Regulation on European Territorial Cooperation 2021-2027

Digital gender gap (Exploratory opinion from the European Parliament)

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
SOC/587-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Giulia BARBUCCI (Workers - GR II / Italy)

This exploratory opinion was requested by the European Parliament to feed into a mission to Tallinn, Estonia, on "Digitalisation and the women's role", organised by the EP's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) on 19-21 September 2018. The opinion looks into the digital gender gap in education system and the labour market. It analyses the reasons behind this phenomenon it and makes proposals on how to increase the participation of girls in STEM and ICT studies and boost the presence of women in the digital sector. It also looks into the pros and cons of digitalisation and its impact on women's life-work balance.

Stanovisko EHSV: Digital gender gap (Exploratory opinion from the European Parliament)

Initiative addressing online platform challenges as regards the spreading of disinformation (Communication)

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
TEN/664-EESC-2018
Referral: 
COM(2018) 236 final
Rapporteur: 
Martin SIECKER (Netherlands)

A variety of tools and methods are currently used to undermine European values and external actions of the EU, as well as to develop and provoke separatist and nationalistic attitudes, manipulate the public and conduct direct interference in the domestic policy of sovereign countries and the EU as a whole. Moreover, the growing influence of cyber offensive capabilities and increased weaponization of technologies to achieve political goals is observed. The impact of such actions is often underestimated.

The EESC agrees with the Commission's call for more responsibility on the part of social media platforms. However, despite the existence of several studies and policy papers produced by European specialists in the last few years, the Commission's communication lacks any practical mandatory steps to ensure this.

Stanovisko EHSV: Initiative addressing online platform challenges as regards the spreading of disinformation (Communication)

Regulation on the cross-border mechanism 2021-2027

Prijaté on 19/09/2018
Referenčné dokumenty: 
ECO/465-EESC-2018-02790-00-00-ac-tra
Referral: 
COM(2018) 373 final 2018/0198 COD
Rapporteur: 
Etele BARÁTH (Hungary)

The EESC welcomes the proposal for a regulation presented by the European Commission on a mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context.  The proposal reflects a new approach and is likely to strengthen the opportunities for cooperation based on subsidiarity between different Member States, and to contribute to more balanced and sustainable socio-economic development of border regions and to the growth of EU GDP.

 

Stanovisko EHSV: Regulation on the cross-border mechanism 2021-2027

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