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Transcript of European Economic and Social Committee
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European Economic and Social Committee
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Where is the EESC located?
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Institutional position of the EESC
European Commission
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Who sits on the EESC?
• Treaty of Rome 1957• Representatives of the various categories of economic and social
activity
• Treaty of Nice 2000• Representatives of the various economic and social components of
organised civil society
• Treaty of Lisbon 2009• Representatives of organisations of employers, of the employed,
and of other parties representative of civil society, notably in
socio-economic, civic, professional and cultural areas
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What is the structure of the EESC?
• It is an assembly of 344 members from the 27 Member
States of the EU.
• Members are appointed for a renewable five-year term.
• They are appointed by the Council of Ministers on the
basis of lists drawn up by national governments.
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An assembly divided into three GROUPS
• Group I – Employers• Public and private sectors of industry, commerce, finance, etc. (large
companies)
• Group II – Employees• National trade union confederations
• Group III – Various Interests• Farmers, consumers, the social economy, craftsmen and SMEs, social
and environmental NGOs, the professions…
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Decision-making bodies of the EESC
• The Presidency• Elected for a two and a half-year term
• The Bureau• Elected for a two and a half-year term
• The plenary assembly• Elected for a five-year term
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The EESC’s working bodies
• Six sections…• Single Market, Production and Consumption – INT
• Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society – TEN
• Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment – NAT
• Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion – ECO
• Employment, Social Affairs and Citizenship – SOC
• External Relations – REX
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• …and five other bodies• The Consultative Commission on Industrial Change – CCMI
• The Single Market Observatory – SMO
• The Sustainable Development Observatory – SDO
• The Labour Market Observatory – LMO
• The Lisbon Strategy Observatory – LSO
• The members and the various working bodies are assisted
by a secretariat-general.
The EESC’s working bodies
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The activities of the EESC
• The role of the Committee is to issue opinions • (approx. 150 per year)
• 1957 Treaty of Rome• The Committee may be consulted by the Council or the European
Commission
• 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam• The Committee may be consulted by the Council, the European
Commission or the European Parliament
• Mandatory or optional referrals
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The activities of the EESC
• In addition, the EESC• has the right of initiative
• may issue exploratory opinions
• takes on the role of facilitator and promoter of civil dialogue
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Working methods
• To issue opinions, the sections usually set up “study
groups”, each with a rapporteur
• A continual quest for a “dynamic compromise”
• Constructive debate based on expertise
• A vote is taken in the section, and then in the plenary
session
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Pattern of work
• 9 plenary sessions per year
• Each of the 6 sections generally meets once a month
• Each study group meets between one and three times
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The Committee, facilitator of civil dialogue
• Regular contact and cooperation with networks of national
economic and social councils and with civil society
organisations• at the level of the European Union
• in Member States and other European countries
• in Euromed partnership countries
• in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states
• in Mercosur states and other Latin American countries
• in India, China, etc.
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Challenges for the future…
• to optimise the Committee's role as a consultative body to
the European Parliament, Council and European
Commission by stepping up cooperation
• to improve the EESC's representativeness and credibility
as the institutional representative of civil society
• to reinforce the EESC's presence in the debate on the
future of Europe
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The added value of the EESC
• a major repository of expertise
• the search for consensus (“dynamic compromise”)
• its role as a channel of communication between
civil society organisations and the European Union’s
institutions
• a real impact on the European Union’s legislative process
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Its consultative role and its dialogue with civil society
organisations……make the EESC one of the most active protagonists and promoters of…
… PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY.
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The president The vice-presidents
Mario SepiItaly
Employees Group (II)
Irini PariGreeceEmployers Group (I)
Seppo KallioFinlandVarious Interests Group (III)
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The Group presidents
Henri MalosseFrance
Employers Group (I)
Georgios DassisGreece
Employees Group (II)
Staffan NilssonSweden
Various Interests Group (III)
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The Section presidents
Bryan CassidyINT (United Kingdom)
Leila KurkiSOC (Finland)
Filip Hamro-DrotzREX (Finland)
Krysztof PaterECO (Poland)
János TóthTEN (Hungary)
Hans-Joachim WilmsNAT (Germany)
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Rue Belliard 99, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
www.eesc.europa.eu
Tel.: +32 2 546 90 11
Fax: +32 2 513 48 93