In Brief
CEC and the EESC
Georges Liarokapis
The EEC offers many advantages:
• It is a wide source of expertise enabling constant research of consensus.
• It is an incontrovertible link between civil society and the institutions of the European Union.
• The EESC has a real impact on the legislative process of the European Union.
• It can and must affect the European economic and social policy
CFE-CGC holds one of the eight mandates assigned to French trade-union organisations at the EESC. Although the majority of Adivsors mandated in the employees’ group represent organisations member of ETUC, the presence of a representative of CFE-CGC – co-opted by the whole employees’ group – asserts the specificity of the organisation and strengthens the recognition of managers at a European level. As the president of CEC I also represent the interests of European managers at the EESC.
Maurizio Angelo
Since the very beginning of the European Economic and Social Committee, created by the Treaties of Rome in 1957, the Italian organisation of executives, managerial and professional staff (CIDA) has been part of this important European consultative body. I have the honour of being a member of the EESC since 1997.
Over the last three years, the dossiers involving managers’ interests have been quite numerous at EESC. I can mention the opinion of the European Parliament and Council on the establishment of a European Work Council (EWC) or a procedure in European-scale undertakings and European-scale group of undertakings for the purposes of informing and consulting employees, with M. Grief as rapporteur. On this matter I could raise the importance of giving a specific representation to executives, managerial and professional staff within the EWC. An amendment was adopted by the EESC to support this idea. I am sure that when all CEC member organisations will be involved in the transposition of this Directive, managers will benefit from this amendment.