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Information and Notices

Volume 51
19 August 2008

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Contents

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III   Preparatory Acts

EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE

444th plenary session, held on 22 and 23 April 2008

2008/C 211/01

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission — Competitive European regions through research and innovation’COM(2007) 474 final

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2008/C 211/02

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of pedestrians and other vulnerable road users’COM(2007) 560 final — 2007/0201 (COD)

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2008/C 211/03

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on type-approval of motor vehicles and engines with respect to emissions from heavy duty vehicles (Euro VI) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information’COM(2007) 851 final — 2007/0295 (COD)

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2008/C 211/04

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on roll-over protection structures of wheeled agricultural or forestry tractors (static testing)’ (Codified version) COM(2008) 25 final — 2008/0008 (COD)

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2008/C 211/05

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Towards a common energy policy’

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2008/C 211/06

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the

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2008/C 211/07

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 Integrated Maritime Policy for the European Union’COM(2007) 575 final

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2008/C 211/08

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 1172/98 on statistical returns in respect of the carriage of goods by road as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission’COM(2007) 778 final — 2007/0269 (COD)

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2008/C 211/09

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 — Small, clean and competitive: A programme to help small and medium-sized enterprises comply with environmental legislation’COM(2007) 379 final {SEC(2007) 906, SEC(2007) 907, SEC(2007) 908}

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2008/C 211/10

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 on the review of Recommendation 2001/331/EC providing minimum criteria for environmental inspections in the Member States’COM(2007) 707 final

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2008/C 211/11

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional uses (Recast)’COM(2008) 3 final — 2008/0003 (COD)

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2008/C 211/12

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Adaptation to the regulatory procedure with scrutiny — Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission’COM(2008) 104 final — 2008/0042 (COD)

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2008/C 211/13

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, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission, Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds’COM(2008) 105 final — 2008/0038 (COD)

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2008/C 211/14

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 999/2001 (laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission’COM(2008) 53 final — 2008/0030 (COD)

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2008/C 211/15

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 — Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity: More and better jobs through flexibility and security’COM(2007) 359 final

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2008/C 211/16

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 — Tackling the pay gap between women and men’COM(2007) 424 final

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2008/C 211/17

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Prevention of terrorism and violent radicalisation’

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2008/C 211/18

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Communication from the Commission to the Council and the European Parliament on VAT rates other than standard VAT rates’COM(2007) 380 final — SEC(2007) 910

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2008/C 211/19

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Strategy for the outermost regions: Achievements and future prospects’COM(2007) 507 final

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2008/C 211/20

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on ‘Freedom of association in the Euromed partner countries’

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2008/C 211/21

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘New trade agreements negotiations — The EESC position’

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2008/C 211/22

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on the ‘Commission Communication: “Communicating Europe in Partnership”’COM(2007) 568 and Annex COM(2007) 569

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