ISSN 1725-2423

Official Journal

of the European Union

C 175

English edition

Information and Notices

Volume 50
27 July 2007

Notice No

Contents

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III   Preparatory Acts

European Economic and Social Committee

436th plenary session, held on 30 and 31 May 2007

2007/C 175/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 92/84/EEC on the approximation of the rates of excise duty on alcohol and alcoholic beverages’COM(2006) 486 final

1

2007/C 175/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Community Statistical Programme 2008 to 2012’COM(2006) 687 final — 2006/0229 (COD)

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2007/C 175/03

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on quarterly statistics on Community job vacancies’COM(2007) 76 final

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2007/C 175/04

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 1059/2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) by reason of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union’COM(2007) 95 final — 2007/0038 (COD)

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2007/C 175/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘The internal market in services — requirements as regards the labour market and consumer protection’

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2007/C 175/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Quality standards for the contents, procedures and methods of social impact assessments from the point of view of the social partners and other civil society players’

21

2007/C 175/07

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 on the implementation of Directive 1997/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 1997 on the Protection of Consumers in respect of Distance Contracts’COM(2006) 514 final

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2007/C 175/08

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 78/855/EEC concerning mergers of public limited liability companies and Council Directive 82/891/EEC concerning the division of public limited companies as regards the requirement for an independent expert's report on the occasion of a merger or a division’COM(2007) 91 final — 2007/0035 (COD)

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2007/C 175/09

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation No 11 concerning the abolition of discrimination in transport rates and conditions, in implementation of Article 79(3) of the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council on the hygiene of foodstuffs’COM(2007) 90 final — 2007/0037 (COD)

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2007/C 175/10

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to the installation of lighting and light-signalling devices on wheeled agricultural and forestry tractors’COM(2007) 192 final — 2007/0066 (COD)

40

2007/C 175/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council concerning the export and import of dangerous chemicals’COM(2006) 745 final — 2006/0246 (COD)

40

2007/C 175/12

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market’COM(2006) 388 final — 2006/0136 COD

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2007/C 175/13

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community’COM(2006) 818 final — 2006/0304 (COD)

47

2007/C 175/14

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Council Regulation laying down specific rules as regards the fruit and vegetable sector and amending certain Regulations’COM(2007) 17 final — 2007/0012 (CNS)

53

2007/C 175/15

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the Directive 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission’COM(2007) 93 final — 2007/0036 (COD)

57

2007/C 175/16

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘The Challenges and Opportunities for the EU in the Context of Globalisation’

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2007/C 175/17

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Green Paper — Modernising labour law to meet the challenges of the 21st century’COM(2006) 708 final

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2007/C 175/18

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of the European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning’COM(2006) 479 final — 2006/0163 (COD)

74

2007/C 175/19

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 — An EU strategy to support Member States in reducing alcohol related harm’COM(2006) 625 final

78

2007/C 175/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on common rules for the operation of air transport services in the Community (recast)’COM(2006) 396 final — 2006/0130 (COD)

85

2007/C 175/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘European Road Safety Policy and Professional Drivers — Safe and secured parking places’

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2007/C 175/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Future eAccessibility legislation’

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