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Information and Notices

Volume 51
16 February 2008

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Contents

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III   Preparatory Acts

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE

439th plenary session held on 24 and 25 October 2007

2008/C 044/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Green Paper on the European Research Area — New Perspectives’COM(2007) 161 final

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2008/C 044/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation setting up the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking’COM(2007) 241 final — 2007/0089 (CNS)

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2008/C 044/03

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation on the establishment of the “ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking” to implement a Joint Technology Initiative in Embedded Computing Systems’COM(2007) 243 final — 2007/0088 (CNS)

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2008/C 044/04

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation setting up the Clean Sky Joint Undertaking’COM(2007) 315 final — 2007/0118 (CNS)

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2008/C 044/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation setting up the ENIAC Joint Undertaking’COM(2007) 356 final — 2007/0089 (CNS)

22

2008/C 044/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of consumers in respect of certain aspects of timeshare, long-term holiday products, resale and exchange’COM(2007) 303 final — 2007/0113 (COD)

27

2008/C 044/07

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on non-automatic weighing instruments’ (Codified version) COM(2007) 446 final — 2007/0164 (COD)

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2008/C 044/08

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on rear registration plate lamps for motor vehicles and their trailers’ (Codified version) COM(2007) 451 final — 2007/0162 (COD)

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2008/C 044/09

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the suppression of radio interference produced by agricultural or forestry tractors (electromagnetic compatibility)’ (Codified version) COM(2007) 462 final — 2007/0166 (COD)

34

2008/C 044/10

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament Biofuels Progress Report Report on the progress made in the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels in the Member States of the European Union’COM(2006) 845 final

34

2008/C 044/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament — Results of the review of the Community Strategy to reduce CO2 emissions from passenger cars and light-commercial vehicles’COM(2007) 19 final

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2008/C 044/12

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/54/EC as regards the application of certain provisions to Estonia’COM(2007) 411 final — 2007/0141 (COD)

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2008/C 044/13

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the selection and authorisation of systems providing mobile satellite services (MSS)’COM(2007) 480 final — 2007/0174 (COD)

50

2008/C 044/14

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 95/50/EC as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission’COM(2007) 509 final — 2007/0184 (COD)

52

2008/C 044/15

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive amending Directive 98/70/EC as regards the specification of petrol, diesel and gas-oil and introducing a mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the use of road transport fuels and amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC, as regards the specification of fuel used by inland waterway vessels and repealing Directive 93/12/EEC’COM(2007) 18 final — 2007/0019 (COD)

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2008/C 044/16

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Compensation payments for disadvantaged areas beyond 2010’

56

2008/C 044/17

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Health check of the CAP and its future after 2013’

60

2008/C 044/18

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Climate Change and the Lisbon Strategy’

69

2008/C 044/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Credit and social exclusion in an affluent society’

74

2008/C 044/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Entrepreneurship mindsets and the Lisbon Agenda’

84

2008/C 044/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘EU immigration and cooperation policy with countries of origin to foster development’

91

2008/C 044/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on Community statistics on public health and health and safety at work’COM(2007) 46 final — 2007/0020 (COD)

103

2008/C 044/23

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 1408/71 on the application of social security schemes to employed persons, to self-employed persons and to members of their families moving within the Community COM(2007) 159 final — 2007/0054 (COD)

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2008/C 044/24

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Elder abuse’

109

2008/C 044/25

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2003/96/EC as regards the adjustment of special tax arrangements for gas oil used as motor fuel for commercial purposes and the coordination of taxation of unleaded petrol and gas oil used as motor fuel’COM(2007) 52 final — 2007/0023 (CNS)

115

2008/C 044/26

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2006/112/EEC with regard to certain temporary provisions concerning rates of value added tax’COM(2007) 381 final — SEC(2007) 910

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2008/C 044/27

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Croatia on the road to accession

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