ISSN 1725-2423

doi:10.3000/17252423.C_2009.317.eng

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 317

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 52
23 December 2009

Notice No

Contents

page

I   Resolutions, recommendations and opinions

OPINIONS

European Economic and Social Committee

455th plenary session held on 15 and 16 July 2009

2009/C 317/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Integrating transport and land-use policies for more sustainable city transport’

1

2009/C 317/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘The competitiveness of the European glass and ceramics industry, with particular reference to the EU climate and energy package’ (Exploratory opinion requested by the Czech Presidency)

7

2009/C 317/03

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘EU-Bosnia and Herzegovina relations: the role of civil society’ (Exploratory opinion)

15

2009/C 317/04

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Emissions from road transport — concrete measures to overcome stagnation’ (Own-initiative opinion)

22

2009/C 317/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘The components and downstream markets of the automotive sector’ (Own-initiative opinion)

29

2009/C 317/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Urban areas and youth violence’

37

2009/C 317/07

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Protection of children at risk from travelling sex offenders’

43

2009/C 317/08

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘What future for non-urban areas in the knowledge society?’ (Own-initiative opinion)

49

III   Preparatory acts

European Economic and Social Committee

455th plenary session held on 15 and 16 July 2009

2009/C 317/09

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on consumer rights’COM(2008) 614 — 2008/0196 (COD)

54

2009/C 317/10

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2001/83/EC as regards the prevention of the entry into the legal supply chain of medicinal products which are falsified in relation to their identity, history or source’COM(2008) 668 final — 2008/0261 (COD)

62

2009/C 317/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Directive 78/660/EEC on the annual accounts of certain types of companies as regards micro-entities’COM(2009) 83 final/2 — 2009/0035 (COD)

67

2009/C 317/12

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council adapting a number of instruments subject to the procedure referred to in Article 251 of the Treaty to Council Decision 1999/468/EC, with regard to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Part Five’COM(2009) 0048 (COD)

72

2009/C 317/13

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Mid-term assessment of implementing the EC Biodiversity Action Plan’COM(2008) 864 final

75

2009/C 317/14

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Strategy for the internalisation of external costs’COM(2008) 435 final/2

80

2009/C 317/15

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on telemedicine for the benefit of patients, healthcare systems and society’COM(2008) 689 final

84

2009/C 317/16

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the rights of passengers when travelling by sea and inland waterway and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws’COM(2008) 816 final — 2008/0246 (COD)

89

2009/C 317/17

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning a European rail network for competitive freight’COM(2008) 852 final — 2008/0247 (COD)

94

2009/C 317/18

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws’COM(2008) 817 final — 2008/0237 (COD)

99

2009/C 317/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1321/2004 on the establishment of structures for the management of the European satellite radio navigation programmes’COM(2009) 139 final — 2009/0047 (COD)

103

2009/C 317/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Green Paper — European workforce for health’COM(2008) 725 final

105

2009/C 317/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum seekers’COM(2008) 815 final — 2008/0244 (COD)

110

2009/C 317/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person’COM(2008) 820 final — 2008/0243 (COD)

115

2009/C 317/23

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Directive concerning mutual assistance for the recovery of claims relating to taxes, duties and other measures’COM(2009) 28 final — 2009/0007 (CNS) and the ‘Proposal for a Council Directive on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation’COM(2009) 29 final — 2009/0004 (CNS)

120

2009/C 317/24

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the European Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Regional integration for development in ACP countries’COM(2008) 604 final

126

2009/C 317/25

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Amended proposal for a Council Directive on pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species’COM(2009) 235 final — 2006/0250 (CNS)

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