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Document 52016AE2804

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of the calendar year 2016’ (COM(2016) 159 final — 2016/0086 COD)

OJ C 303, 19.8.2016, p. 148–148 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

19.8.2016   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 303/148


Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of the calendar year 2016’

(COM(2016) 159 final — 2016/0086 COD)

(2016/C 303/22)

On 11 April 2016 the Council decided to consult the European Economic and Social Committee, under Article 43(2) of the TFEU, on the:

Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of the calendar year 2016

(COM(2016) 159 final — 2016/0086 COD).

Since the Committee has already set out its views on the content of the proposal in question in its opinions CES2942-2013_00_00_TRA_AC, adopted on 22 May 2013 (*), EESC-2014-02897-00-00-AC, adopted on 5 June 2014 (**) and EESC-2015-02052-00-00-AC-TRA, adopted on 22 April 2015 (***), it decided, at its 517th plenary session of 25 and 26 May 2016 (meeting of 25 May), by 161 votes to 2 with 8 abstentions, not to draw up a new opinion on the subject, but to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned documents.

Brussels, 25 May 2016.

The President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Georges DASSIS


(*)  EESC opinion NAT/602 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on fixing an adjustment rate to direct payments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 in respect of calendar year 2013 (OJ C 271, 19.9.2013, p. 143).

(**)  EESC opinion NAT/646 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on fixing an adjustment rate for direct payments provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 in respect of calendar year 2014 (OJ C 424, 26.11.2014, p. 73).

(***)  EESC opinion NAT/668 on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of calendar year 2015 (OJ C 291, 4.9.2015, p. 60).


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