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Financing the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy and the Challenges in Financing Climate Change Adaptation (Exploratory opinion at the request of the Croatian presidency)

Pågående (updated on 16/11/2019)
Dokumentreferens: 
NAT/778-EESC
Rapporteur: 
Toni Vidan (Diversity Europe - GR III / Croatia)
Co-rapporteur: 
Dimitris Dimitriadis (Employers - GR I/Greece)
Plenarsession: 
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Apr 29, 2020 Apr 30, 2020

The transition to a low-carbon economy is the EU's goal and obligation and the EU committed itself to implement this transition in a socially just and cost-effective manner. It is thus important to examine all the feasible ways of financing climate neutrality, and possibly find new and innovative financing models in the near future.

Populism and fundamental rights - suburban and rural areas (own-initiative opinion)

Pågående (updated on 16/11/2019)
Dokumentreferens: 
NAT/771-EESC-2019
Rapporteur: 
Karolina Dreszer-Smalec (Diversity Europe - GR III / Poland)
Co-rapporteur: 
Jukka Ahtela (Employers - GR I/Finland)
Plenarsession: 
548 -
Dec 11, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

Informationsmeddelande: Populism and fundamental rights - suburban and rural areas (own-initiative opinion)

Common minimum standards in the field of unemployment insurance in EU Member States – a concrete step towards the effective implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (own-initiative opinion)

Pågående (updated on 15/11/2019)
Dokumentreferens: 
SOC/583-EESC-2018
Rapporteur: 
Oliver Röpke (Workers - GR II / Austria)
Plenarsession: 
548 -
Dec 11, 2019 Dec 12, 2019

Against a background of rising poverty levels during the crisis, levels that remain high in many Member States, in particular among the unemployed, this own-initiative opinion would address the huge differences in levels of protection under national unemployment insurance systems within the EU.
Possible standards in this respect could be:

  • a minimum standard for the net replacement rate of unemployment benefits;
  • a minimum standard of coverage ratio of unemployed people receiving unemployment payments;
  • a minimum standard for the duration of unemployment benefit entitlement;
  • a right to (re)qualification and training

With the objective of promoting upward social convergence within the EU, the proposal for such standards is a concrete step towards effective implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights recently announced by the EU institutions in Gothenburg.

Informationsmeddelande: Common minimum standards in the field of unemployment insurance in EU Member States – a concrete step towards the effective implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (own-initiative opinion)

Artificial intelligence in the automotive sector (supplementary opinion)

Pågående (updated on 15/11/2019)
Dokumentreferens: 
CCMI/170-EESC-2019
Referral: 
COM(2019) 168 final
Rapporteur: 
Ulrich Samm (Employers - GR I / Germany)
Co-rapporteur: 
Monika Sitárová Hrusecká (Slovakia)

The INT section is currently preparing an opinion on the Commission's Communication "Building Trust in Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence" COM(2019)168. The Commission considers that in order to achieve ‘trustworthy AI’, three components are necessary: (1) it should comply with the law, (2) it should fulfil ethical principles and (3) it should be robust. Based on these three components and the European values, the guidelines identify seven key requirements that AI applications should respect to be considered trustworthy. The guidelines also include an assessment list to help check whether these requirements are fulfilled. The CCMI previous experience on the automotive sector is a solid asset to produce a supplementary opinion on this particular Automotive Sector.

Sektionens yttrande: Artificial intelligence in the automotive sector (supplementary opinion)

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