ISSN 1977-091X

doi:10.3000/1977091X.C_2012.043.eng

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 43

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 55
15 February 2012

Notice No

Contents

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I   Resolutions, recommendations and opinions

OPINIONS

European Economic and Social Committee

476th plenary session held on 7 and 8 December 2011

2012/C 043/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Industrial change to build sustainable Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) facing the resource efficiency objective of the Europe 2020 strategy’ (own-initiative opinion)

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III   Preparatory acts

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE

476th plenary session held on 7 and 8 December 2011

2012/C 043/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Concluding the first European semester of economic policy coordination: Guidance for national polices in 2011-2012’COM(2011) 400 final

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2012/C 043/03

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 1083/2006 as regards certain provisions relating to risk sharing instruments for certain Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability’COM(2011) 655 final — 2011/0283 (COD)

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2012/C 043/04

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 — Better governance of the Single Market through greater administrative cooperation: A strategy for expanding and developing the Internal Market Information System (“IMI”)’COM(2011) 75 final and the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on administrative cooperation through the Internal Market Information System (the IMI Regulation)’COM(2011) 522 final — 2011/0226 (COD)

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2012/C 043/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Towards a space strategy for the European Union that benefits its citizens’COM(2011) 152 final

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2012/C 043/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Report from the Commission — Report on Competition Policy 2010’COM(2011) 328 final

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2012/C 043/07

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on recreational craft and personal watercraft’COM(2011) 456 final — 2011/0197 (COD)

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2012/C 043/08

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 — An EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child’COM(2011) 60 final

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2012/C 043/09

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — Strengthening victims' rights in the EU’COM(2011) 274 final and on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime’COM(2011) 275 final — 2011/0129 (COD)

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2012/C 043/10

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the minimum health and safety requirements regarding the exposure of workers to the risks arising from physical agents (electromagnetic fields) (20th individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16(1) of Directive 89/391/EEC)’COM(2011) 348 final — 2011/0152 (COD)

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2012/C 043/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and on the right to communicate upon arrest’COM(2011) 326 final — 2011/0154 (COD)

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2012/C 043/12

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 1967/2006 concerning management measures for the sustainable exploitation of fishery resources in the Mediterranean Sea’COM(2011) 479 final — 2011/0218 (COD)

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2012/C 043/13

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Green Paper on promotion measures and information provision for agricultural products: a reinforced value-added European strategy for promoting the tastes of Europe’COM(2011) 436 final and the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 on information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries’COM(2011) 663 final — 2011/0290 (COD)

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2012/C 043/14

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 64/432/EEC as regards computer databases which are part of the surveillance networks in the Member States’COM(2011) 524 final — 2011/0228 (COD) and the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 as regards electronic identification of bovine animals and deleting the provisions on voluntary beef labelling’COM(2011) 525 final — 2011/0229 (COD)

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2012/C 043/15

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products’COM(2011) 530 final — 2011/0231 (COD)

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2012/C 043/16

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending European Parliament and Council Directive 2008/106/EC on the minimum level of training of seafarers’COM(2011) 555 final — 2011/0239 (COD)

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2012/C 043/17

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 — Trade, Growth and World Affairs: Trade Policy as a Core Component of the EU's 2020 Strategy’COM(2010) 612 final

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2012/C 043/18

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 (EEC) No 3821/85 on recording equipment in road transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council’COM(2011) 451 final — 2011/0196 (COD)

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2012/C 043/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council applying a scheme of generalised tariff preferences’COM(2011) 241 final

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2012/C 043/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Joint Communication to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions — A new response to a changing Neighbourhood’COM(2011) 303 final

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2012/C 043/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Amended proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 and Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards distribution of food products to the most deprived persons in the Union’COM(2011) 634 final — 2008/0183 (COD)

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2012/C 043/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accelerated phasing-in of double-hull or equivalent design requirements for single-hull oil tankers (recast)’COM(2011) 566 final — 2011/0243 (COD)

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