This report was prepared to support the preparation of an Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy prepared by the Commission and adopted in January 2018. This report as required by the Tender Specifications provides an assessment of the...
In December 2016, the European Commission launched the mid-term review/revision (MTR) of the EU budget, which resulted in a large number of proposed amendments to the Regulation on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and other related EU regulations. These aimed to ...
The EU dairy sector crisis is still on the agenda of policy makers as protests by farmers and farmers’ representative organisations on low farm-gate milk prices continue. The farm aid package of EUR 500 million proposed by the European Commission (EC) and endorsed by the Council of Agriculture M...
This brochure covers the priorities of the Dutch Presidency from a regions and cities perspective. The Forewords by the CoR President, Markku Markkula and the Dutch Minister of the Interior, Ronald Plasterk, are complemented by interviews with the Dutch Delegation to the European Committee of th...
This Monitoring Report aims to follow the analysis developed in the previous report about the usefulness and added value of territorial foresight, as a tool for decision making for Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs) as well as a support mechanism for the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in the ...
This study deals with the following issues: Climate change scientific evidence, impacts, mitigation and adaptation; Role of the European Union in achieved international agreements; EU leadership role in international agreements to fight climate change and European energy policy; Member States ma...
This report sets out to offer an illustrative presentation of the roles, approaches, efforts and achievements of Local and Regional Authorities (LRA) in implementing the Knowledge and Innovation priority of the Lisbon Strategy. It forms a contribution to the establishment of the Committee of the...
