PNG fond transparent

1
Influencing European law and policy
Proposition of the European Commission
EP
CoR
EESC
Council
Others
2
3
Commission
EP
CoR
2
1
EESC
National associations of towns, municipalities
and regions
Others
1. CEMR informs its members 2. Feedback from
associations to CEMR 3. CEMRs policy position
sent to stakeholders
3
Fields of activities

• Local and regional government as an employer
• North South Cooperation
• Local and regional democracy
• Equal opportunities
• Employment
• Energy
• Environment
• Governance future of the EU

• Twinning
• International local government
• Regional Policy
• Social Affairs
• Urban and rural policies
• Public services / Procurement
• Transport
• Information Society

4
Public services

• White Paper on Services of General Interest
• Communication on the social services of general
  interest
• Green paper on Public-Private Partnerships and
  Community Law on Contracts and Concessions
• Draft regulation on public service obligations
  in public transport

5
Public services

• Draft Directive on Services in the Internal
  Market
• Inter-communal co-operation and the Inhouse issue
  
• Internal Market strategy Modernisation of the
  water sector

6
Environment

• Batteries Directive
• Bathing Water Directive
• Directive on the protection of groundwater
• Directive on Infrastructure for Spatial
  Information in Europe (INSPIRE)
• Thematic strategy on the prevention and
  recycling of waste
• Sewage sludge and biowaste

7
Environment

• Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment
• Thematic Strategy on Soil protection
• Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution
• Flood Risk Management
• Review of the EU Sustainable Development
  Strategy
• Climate change medium and long term strategies
  and targets

8
Energy

• Directive energy end-use efficiency and energy
  services
• Energy Guidebook
• Green Paper on Energy Efficiency
• Future of the Intelligent Energy Europe
  Programme
• Action Plan on biomass
• Communication on renewable energies

9
Cohesion Policy

• Future of the Structural Funds
• Draft regulation on the general provision
• Draft regulation on the European Regional
  Development Fund (ERDF)
• Draft regulation on the future of the rural
  development
• Draft regulation on the European Social Fund
• Draft regulation on a European Grouping on Cross
  Border Co-operation

10
Employment and Social Affairs

• Review of the Lisbon Agenda
• New Social Policy Agenda
• Green Paper on the consequences of the
  demographic changes in the EU
• Employment Report / employment guidelines and
  recommendations
• Report on social protection and social inclusion
  
• Green Paper on an EU approach to managing
  economic migration

11
Employers Platform

• Working time directive
• Social dialogue in an enlarged Europe
• Communication on restructuring employment and
  the role of the EU
• Directive on simplifying procedures for
  coordinating social security systems
• Updating the EU legal framework for labour law
  to address the needs created by new forms of work

12
Information Society / e-Government

• Patentability of computer-implemented inventions
• European Information Society beyond 2005 i2010
• eAccessibility
• 7th Framework Programme on Research and
  Development