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Information and Notices

Volume 51
25 June 2008

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III   Preparatory Acts

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE

442nd plenary session held on 13 and 14 February 2008

2008/C 162/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Defining the collective actions system and its role in the context of Community consumer law (Own-initiative opinion)

1

2008/C 162/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee: EU Consumer Policy Strategy 2007-2013 — empowering consumers, enhancing their welfare, effectively protecting them COM(2007) 99 final

20

2008/C 162/03

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament: European Space Policy COM(2007) 212 final

24

2008/C 162/04

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on the implementation of Directive 1999/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 May 1999 on certain aspects of the sale of consumer goods and associated guarantees including analysis of the case for introducing direct producers' liability COM(2007) 210 final

31

2008/C 162/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Report from the Commission — Report on Competition Policy 2006 COM(2007) 358 final

35

2008/C 162/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the component type-approval of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (Codified version) COM(2007) 840 final — 2007/0284 (COD)

40

2008/C 162/07

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on textile names (Recast) COM(2007) 870 final — 2008/0005 (COD)

40

2008/C 162/08

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of a Member State (Codified version) COM(2007) 873 final — 2007/0299 (COD)

41

2008/C 162/09

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the colouring matters which may be added to medicinal products (Recast) COM(2008) 1 final — 2008/0001 (COD)

41

2008/C 162/10

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on: An independent evaluation of services of general interest

42

2008/C 162/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Promoting broad public access to the European digital library

46

2008/C 162/12

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on an Energy mix in transport

52

2008/C 162/13

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Energy efficiency of buildings — The contribution of end users (exploratory opinion)

62

2008/C 162/14

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on The possible positive or negative impact of increased environmental and energy requirements (policies) on the competitiveness of EU industry

72

2008/C 162/15

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 460/2004 establishing the European Network and Information Security Agency as regards its duration COM(2007) 861 final — 2007/0291 (COD)

79

2008/C 162/16

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Rights-based management tools in fisheries

79

2008/C 162/17

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, as regards the support scheme for cotton COM(2007) 701 final — 2007/0242 (CNS)

83

2008/C 162/18

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (Recast) COM(2007) 736 final — 2007/0259 (COD)

85

2008/C 162/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the European Environment Agency and the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Codified version) COM(2007) 667 final — 2007/0235 (COD)

86

2008/C 162/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Regulation (EC) No …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the general rules on the definition, description and presentation of aromatised wines, aromatised wine-based drinks and aromatised wine-product cocktails (Recast) COM(2007) 848 final — 2007/0287 (COD)

86

2008/C 162/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the exploitation and marketing of natural mineral waters (Recast) COM(2007) 858 final — 2007/0292 (COD)

87

2008/C 162/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on The Perspectives of European Coal and Steel Research

88

2008/C 162/23

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing Council Decision 85/368/EEC on the comparability of vocational training qualifications between the Member States of the European Community COM(2007) 680 final — 2007/0234 (COD)

90

2008/C 162/24

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Proposal for a Council Decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (under Article 128 of the EC Treaty) COM(2007) 803 final/2 (Part V) — 2007/0300 (CNS)

92

2008/C 162/25

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Financial integration: the case of European stock markets (own-initiative opinion)

96

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