Europaudvalget 2017-18
KOM (2017) 0650 Bilag 1
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EUROPEAN
COMMISSION
Strasbourg, 24.10.2017
COM(2017) 650 final
ANNEX 1
ANNEX
to the
COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
Commission Work Programme 2018
An agenda for a more united, stronger and more democratic Europe
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Annex I: New initiatives
Nº
Title
Description
1
A New Boost for Jobs, Growth and Investment
1.
Delivering on the Circular Economy
Action Plan
2
This includes a strategy on plastics use, reuse and recycling
(non-legislative, Q4 2017);
a proposal for a Regulation on
minimum quality requirements for reused water
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 192 TFEU, Q4 2017);
a
REFIT revision of the Drinking Water Directive
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 192 TFEU, Q4 2017);
an
initiative to address legal, technical or practical bottlenecks at the interface of chemical, product and waste
legislation
(non-legislative, Q4 2017);
and a monitoring framework for the circular economy
(non-legislative, Q4
2017)
Comprehensive proposal for the future Multi-annual Financial Framework beyond 2020 (Q2 2018) followed by
proposals for the next generation of programmes and new own resources
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 311
TFEU plus sectoral bases, Q2 2018)
Reflection Paper "Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030, on the follow-up to the UN Sustainable Development
Goals, including on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change"
(non-legislative, Q2 2018)
2.
Multi-annual financial framework
(initiative to be launched with a 2025
perspective)
A sustainable European future
(initiative to be launched with a 2025
perspective)
3.
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In this annex the Commission provides further information, as far as available, on the initiatives included in its Work Programme, in line with the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-
making. This information, which is provided in brackets under the description of each initiative, is indicative only and subject to change during the preparatory process, notably in view of the
outcome of an impact assessment process
2
The Circular Economy package was already included in Annex I to the Commission Work Programme 2017
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Nº
Title
Description
1
A Connected Digital Single Market
4.
Completing the Digital Single Market
Proposal on fairness in platform-to-business relations
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018);
an initiative addressing online platform challenges as regards the spreading of fake information
(non-legislative, Q1
2018);
and a revision of the Commission guidelines on market analysis and assessment of significant market power
in the electronic communications sector
(non legislative, Q2 2018)
A Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy
5.
Completing the Energy Union
Follow-up to the solidarity aspect of the Energy Union, including a proposal on common rules for gas pipelines
entering the European internal gas market
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 194 TFEU, Q4 2017)
6.
Future of EU energy and climate policy Communication on the future of EU energy and climate policy, including the future of the Euratom Treaty (taking
(initiative
to be launched with a 2025
account of Declaration No 54 of five Member States added to the Final Act of the Lisbon Treaty) and on the possible
use of Article 192(2), second subparagraph TFEU
(non legislative, Q2 2018)
perspective)
A Deeper and Fairer Internal Market with a Strengthened Industrial Base
7.
Fair taxation in the digital economy
Proposal establishing rules at EU level allowing taxation of profits generated by multinationals through the digital
economy
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 113, 115 TFEU, Q1 2018)
Proposal to establish a European Labour Authority (legislative; Q2 2018); an initiative on access to social protection
for atypical self-employed workers
(legislative/non-legislative, Art. 153-155, 352 TFEU, Q2 2018);
an initiative on a
European Social Security Number that could be used across policy areas where appropriate
(legislative, incl. impact
assessment, Q2 2018);
a REFIT revision of the Written Statement Directive establishing the employer's obligation to
inform employees of the conditions applicable to the contract or employment relationship
(legislative, incl. impact
assessment/non-legislative, Art 153, 154 TFEU, Q4 2017)
Proposal to improve the EU food supply chain
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 42 and 43 TFEU, Q1 2018)
8.
Social fairness package
9.
EU food supply chain
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Nº
10.
Title
Completing the Capital Markets Union
Description
1
A revised framework for investment firms
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q4/2017);
an Action
Plan on sustainable finance with regulatory measures
(legislative, incl. impact assessment/non legislative, Q1 2018);
an
initative on Financial Technology (FinTech)
(non legislative, Q1 2018);
a proposal for an EU framework on crowd
and peer to peer finance
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018);
a European enabling
framework for covered bonds
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018);
and a REFIT initiative
on reducing barriers to cross-border distribution of alternative investment funds and UCITS
(legislative, incl. impact
assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018)
Communication on the possibility of further enhancing the use of qualified majority voting and of the ordinary
legislative procedure in internal market matters on the basis of Article 48(7) TEU
(non-legislative, Q3 2018)
11.
More efficient Single Market law-
making (initiative
to be launched with a
2025 perspective)
A Deeper and Fairer Economic and Monetary Union
12.
Completing the Economic and
Monetary Union
Proposals for the transformation of the European Stability Mechanism into a European Monetary Fund within EU
law
(legislative, Q4 2017);
the creation of a dedicated euro area budget line within the EU budget providing for four
functions: (1) structural reform assistance, (2) a stabilisation function, (3) a backstop for the Banking Union, and (4)
a convergence instrument to give pre-accession assistance to Member States on their way to euro membership
(non-
legislative, Q4 2017);
and the integration of the substance of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance
in the Economic and Monetary Union into EU law, taking into account the flexibility built into the Stability and
Growth Pact and identified by the Commission since January 2015
(legislative, Q4 2017)
Proposals on the development of secondary markets for non-performing loans
(legislative, incl. impact assessment,
Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018);
protection of secured creditors from business borrowers' default
(legislative, incl. impact
assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018);
and an enabling framework for the development of EU Sovereign Bond-
backed Securities
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q1 2018)
Communication on the possible creation of a permanent European Minister of Economy and Finance who is
democratically accountable
(non-legislative, Q4 2017)
13.
Completing the Banking Union
14.
Creation of a permanent and
accountable European Minister of
Economy and Finance
(initiative to be
launched with a 2025 perspective)
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Nº
Title
Description
1
Trade: A balanced and progressive trade policy to harness globalisation
15.
Delivering on the Trade for All
Strategy
Finalising agreements with Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, pursuing negotiations with Mexico and Mercosur and
advancing negotiations with Australia and New Zealand once the Council will have approved the mandates
recommended by the Commission
An Area of Justice and Fundamental Rights Based on Mutual Trust
16.
Completing the Security Union
Implementation of the Security Union agenda and advancing the fight against terrorism: proposals to allow
interoperability between EU information systems for security, border and migration management
(legislative, incl.
impact assessment; Art. 74, 77, 79, 85, 87, 88; Q4 2017);
a proposal to improve cross-border access of law enforcement
authorities to electronic evidence
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 82 TFEU, Q1 2018);
REFIT revision of the
Regulation on marketing and use of explosive precursors
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 114 TFEU, Q2
2018);
initiatives to facilitate cross-border access to and use of financial data by law enforcement authorities
(legislative, incl. impact assessment/non-legislative, Q2 2018)
Proposal for a Decision of the EP and of the Council on the revision of Decision No. 1313/2013/EU for a fully-fledged
European Union Civil Protection Mechanism with own operational capacities
(legislative, Art. 196 TFEU, Q4 2017)
Communication on a possible extension of the tasks of the new European Public Prosecutor's Office to include the
fight against terrorism on the basis of Article 86(4)TFEU
(non-legislative, Q3 2018)
17.
EU Civil Protection Mechanism
18.
Extension of the tasks of the new
European Public Prosecutor's Office
(initiative
to be launched with a 2025
perspective)
Rule of law
(initiative to be launched
with a 2025 perspective)
19.
Initiative to strengthen the enforcement of the Rule of Law in the European Union
(non-legislative, Q4 2018)
Towards a New Policy on Migration
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Nº
20.
Title
Delivering on the EU Agenda on
Migration
Description
1
Revision of the common visa code
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 77 TFEU, Q1 2018);
REFIT revision of the
Visa Information System
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Art. 77 and 87 TFEU, Q2 2018);
revision of the
Immigration Liaison Officers Regulation
(legislative, incl. impact assessment, Q2 2018)
A Stronger Global Actor
21.
Delivering on the Global Strategy
Including an EU strategy on connecting Europe and Asia; a renewed partnership with Latin America and the
Caribbean; and new frameworks for engagement with India, Iran and Iraq
(non-legislative, Q1 and Q2 2018)
Strategy for a succesful EU accession of Serbia and Montenegro as frontrunner candidates in the Western Balkans,
with a particular emphasis on the rule of law, fundamental rights, the fight against corruption and organised crime
and on the overall stability of the region
(non-legislative, Q1 2018)
Communication on the possibility of further enhancing the use of qualified majority voting in Common Foreign
Policy, on the basis of Article 31(3)TEU, as well as on enhancing the consistency of the Common Foreign Policy
(non-legislative, Q3 2018)
22.
A credible enlargement perspective
(initiative to be launched with a 2025
perspective)
More efficiency and consistency in
implementing the Common Foreign
Policy
(initiative to be launched with a
2025 perspective)
23.
A Union of Democratic Change
24.
Communicating Europe
Communication on how to make the Union more united, stronger and more democratic in communication terms
(non-legislative, Q2 2018)
Communication on further enhancing subsidiarity, proportionality and better regulation in the daily operation of
the European Union
(non-legislative, Q3 2018)
Communication on options for enhancing efficiency at the helm of the European Union
(non-legislative, Q3 2018)
25.
Doing less more efficiently
(initiative to
be launched with a 2025 perspective)
A more efficient and democratic
Europe
(initiative to be launched with a
2025 perspective)
26.
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