Brussels, 28/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is meeting on 28-29 April under the presidency of Roger Briesch, and for the last time at the Ravenstein building in Brussels. The next plenary session on 2-3 June will take place at the former seat of the European Parliament in Brussels. All EESC services will from then on will move to the new EESC building in rue Belliard in Brussels.
This end of April session will be marked by a contribution by M.N.N. Vohra, co-president of the EU/India round table, which will be speaking on relations between the two regions. The committee is expected to adopt an exploratory opinion on the EU sustainable development strategy, for which the rapporteur is Lutz Ribbe (Germany, director at the European Natural Heritage Foundation, Euronatur) and the co-rapporteur Ernst Erik Ehnmark (Sweden, white collar workers centre, SACO).
The committee will also speak on the opinions affecting: 1) the sustainable use of natural resources (rapporteur: Lutz Ribbe); 2) an internal market without any obstacles linked to corporate tax (Brian Cassidy, United Kingdom, consultant and former MEP); 3) food stuffs and packaging (Madi Sharma, United Kingdom, Director General of Original Eastern Foods Ltd); 4)pollution and hazardous substances/acquatic environment (Maria Candelas Sanchez Miguel, Spain, Union Confederation of Workers CCOO); 5) Europass (Gérard Dantin, France, CFDT union); 6) Economic and Social Cohesion in Poland (information report by Dagmar Boving, Germany, head of Service for Europe and European policy at the German Chamber of Commerce and industry DIHK).