2.3.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 79/1
I (Resolutions, recommendations and opinions)
RESOLUTIONS
COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS 152ND COR PLENARY SESSION, 30.11.2022-1.12.2022
Resolution of the European Committee of the Regions on the European Commission Work Programme and the CoR political priorities for 2023 (2023/C 79/01)
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (CoR),
Having regard to: — the European Commission Work Programme (ECWP) for 2023 (1), — the Protocol of Cooperation with the European Commission of February 2012, — the CoR Resolution on the European Committee of the Regions' priorities for 2020-2025 (2), — the CoR Resolution on the European Committee of the Regions' proposals in view of the European Commission Work Programme for 2023 (3), — the CoR's EU Annual Report on the State of Regions and Cities (4); 1.
Welcomes that the European Commission Work Programme is largely based on the proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE).
As the implementation of some proposals would require Treaty amendments, the CoR shares the call of the European Parliament and of the President of the European Commission for establishing a Convention based on article 48 TEU.
The CoR regrets, however, that the ECWP lacks reference and concrete proposals related to the CoFoE conclusions that foresee better recognition of the added value of regional and local authorities for European democracy; 2.
Welcomes the renewed commitment of the Commission to use the Sustainable Development Goals as its overall guiding objective, especially by their integration into the European Semester and in the better regulation tools.
The CoR invites the Commission to review the full potential of SDG localisation, including in the expected EU Voluntary Review, in order to achieve a sustainable recovery and complete the SDGs by 2030; 3.
Stresses that the consequences of the ongoing climate emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's war against Ukraine and the current record inflation rates triggered by increased food and energy prices as well as the structural migration and humanitarian crisis at the EU borders, with particular virulence in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic,
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COM(2022) 548 final.
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