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)
Date: 2007-05-30
Institutions: European Economic and Social Committee
Subjects: Bulgaria, EU Member State, Romania, data collection, regional statistics, statistical method, statistical nomenclature

27.7.2007

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 175/13

Furthermore,

3.7
in all EU countries, work contracts
currently provide for dozens of different forms of employment
relations. It would therefore be useful to know the types of job
vacancy involved (open-ended contracts, fixed-term contracts,
part-time contracts, projects, partnerships, etc).

3.8
A framework that was closer to the real potential of the
labour market, its trends and weaknesses in certain sectors and
regions, would make it possible to focus better on the strategies
to be implemented in order to achieve the Lisbon goals.

This is another

3.9
reason why the EESC believes that
consultation with the European social partners and their direct
involvement is particularly necessary in these areas.

The EESC welcomes the Parliament's powers of scrutiny over
the proposal which will be subject to co-decision with the Euro-
pean Parliament. Implementing regulations will be subject to
comitology under the regulatory procedure with scrutiny,
in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Council Decisions
1999/468/EC and 2006/512/EC.

Brussels, 31 May 2007.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Dimitris DIMITRIADIS

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 establish-
ment 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)

(2007/C 175/04)

On 25 April 2007 the Council of the European Union decided to consult the European Economic and
Social Committee, under Article 262 of the Treaty establishing the European Community, on the abovemen-
tioned proposal.

The Committee Bureau instructed the Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social
Cohesion to prepare the Committee's work on the subject.

Given the urgent nature of the work, the European Economic and Social Committee appointed Mr Burani as
rapporteur-general at its 436th plenary session, held on 30 and 31 May 2007 (meeting of 30 May 2007),
and adopted the following opinion unanimously.

1. Introduction

Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of

1.1
the European
Parliament and of the Council established a common classifica-
tion of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) for the Member
States.

An initial amendment was made in 2005 following the
1.2
accession of 10 new Member States. A further amendment has
become necessary following the accession of Bulgaria and

Brussels, 30 May 2007.

Romania,
Member States into the annex to the regulation.

to insert

in order

tables concerning these new

2. Comments and conclusions

The EESC takes note of

2.1
the Commission's proposal.
Given that the need for the proposal has arisen following the
accession of new Member States, and that it is of a purely tech-
nical nature, the Committee gives its full agreement.

The President

of the European Economic and Social Committee

Dimitris DIMITRIADIS