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industriAll Europe Sector Committee Energy Luxemburg, 4 March 2014

industriAll Europe Sector Committee Energy Luxemburg, 4 March 2014. Draft Agenda. Welcome and adoption of draft agenda Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting Secretariat report Activities of the European Social Dialogue Committees in the relevant sectors

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industriAll Europe Sector Committee Energy Luxemburg, 4 March 2014

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  1. industriAll Europe Sector Committee Energy Luxemburg, 4 March 2014

  2. Draft Agenda • Welcome and adoption of draft agenda • Approval of theminutes of thepreviousmeeting • Secretariat report • Activities of the European SocialDialogueCommittees in the relevant sectors • Presentationanddiscussion of the 2030 Framework forEnergyandClimatePolicies • Revisedstateaidguidelinesforassessingpublicsupportprojects in thefield of energyandenvironment • Information about a potential workshop on energyandclimatepolicy • Select Working Party fortheEnergySectorCommittee – nominationsandplanning 2014 • Anyotherbusiness

  3. 3. Report of the Secretariat Industriall European, High-Level Conference, Madrid 2nd April 2014 with manifesto to put industry back to work Hairdressing Social Partners‘ Agreement 15 Years of EU Sectoral Social Dialogue – 11 December 2013 Meeting of the Social Dialogue Committee 20/02/14 ETUC Proposal to set up a Think Tank for the next congress Information on the solidarity for the Greece Employment in Europe (younger and older workers) Information on Refining “What Future”

  4. 4. Activities of the European SocialDialogueCommittees • SD Electricity • SD Gas • SD Extractive Industries

  5. 4.1 SectorSocialDialogueCommittee Electricity • 2030 Framework  focus on just transition/social dialogue • Nuclearsafety/nuclearliability • Joint Framework of actionstrainingandcompetences – implementation/progressreports • Skills andqualifications in theelectricitysector – settingup a WG • CSR Declaration adopted early 2014  follow up with Eurelectric • European Energy Community – Social Forum/Creating a WG on SD in Countries of the SEE Energy Community

  6. 4.2 SectorSocialDialogueCommittee Gas • What relation with Eurogas • Meeting in late 2013 with Jean Paul Tricart • Position of EPSU and IndustriallEuropean Trade Union

  7. 4.3 Sector Social Dialogue Committee Extractive Industries • NO2 occupational exposure limits – joint response to the Commission consultation(s) • Unconventional fossil fuels • 7th environment action programme – soil and water quality • 2030 Framework • Carbon leakage and the value of indigenous resources • Restructuring of the extractive industries in Europe, and setting up of a European database on skills (ESCO working group for mining and heavy industries)

  8. 5. Presentationanddiscussion of the 2030 Framework forEnergyandClimatePolicies • industriAll Europe responsetoconsultation on the Green Paper „A 2030 frameworkforclimateandenergypolicies“ • 2030 Framework published on 22 Jan 2014: • Binding GHG reductiontarget 40% • Binding (on EU level) Renewablestarget 27% • Nobindingtarget on energyefficiency implementation of thedirective due in June 2014 (assessment  Public consultation on energyefficiencypolicyuntil 28 April 2014

  9. 5. Drafting an industriAll position Work on 5 priorityheadings: • Reflection on legislative process • Cop 2015, EU 2030 Energy Framework • Trade unionvision • Longterm targets  2050 • Just Transition • Employment • Skills and Training • Just transition principles • Competitiveness • Carbon (investment) leakage • development of energy costs • Investments in all energy technologies • Demands • Role of energy intensive industry, ETS reform, energyefficiencytarget, R&D, role of renewables, completion of theinternalenergymarket, technologicaldeveopment

  10. 6. DraftEnergyand Environmental AidGuidelines Position by the industriAll European Trade Union • development and promotion of renewable sources of energy without any threat to jobs • compatible with the goals to revitalise European industry, combat global warming and develop renewable energy sources • Restriction of the current support schemes for renewable energy sources only advisable for mature technologies • State aids to promote renewable energy sources must under no circumstances be more conducive to precarious forms of employment such as temporary work and contracts for work labour, than to regular, insurable, normal employment relationships.

  11. 6. DraftEnergyand Environmental AidGuidelines Position by the industriAll European Trade Union • Energy-intensive companies are exposed to international competition with their products inside and outside the EU  Limitations to the allocation of costs for the promotion of renewable energy sources • Innovative products constitute a precondition for the successful development of industry and employment in the EU and its Member States. • A tax-financed promotion of renewable energy sources should not be taken out of the environmental and energy aid rules, • nor should efficiency-conducive, industrial own power generation be burdened with the costs for the promotion of renewable energy sources

  12. 6. DraftEnergyand Environmental AidGuidelines Position by the industriAll European Trade Union • Efficiency-conducive, industrial own power generation should not be burdened with the costs for the promotion of renewable energy sources • The plants therefore must be able to fulfil the following criteria as an alternative: • Rise in costs with regard to the gross value creation and intensity of trade inside and outside the EU to a relevant extent or, • Rise in costs to a great extent with regard to the gross value added, or • Particularly high intensity of trade inside and outside the EU and rise in costs above a minimum threshold, or • Consumption level by added value (kWh/€VA) which can be modulated by sector.

  13. 7. Information: Conference on energypolicy “Creating Industrial Jobs in East and West: What European Industrial Unions expect from EU Energy Policy” • Cooperationwiththe Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Regional Project Labour Relations andSocialDialogue in CEE • When: September 2014 in Warsaw (tbc.)

  14. 7. Information: Conference on energypolicy Idea • Energy policy extremely politicised in EU • Different economiccapacities/perspectives • TUs in CEE feelsingled out in thediscussionwithotherregions • Invite TUs to Poland todiscussadopt different perspectives Objectives • Learnabout different viewpoints on energypolicy • Discuss TU demands/ opportunities of policychoices • Formulate expectations towards the new European Parliament

  15. 8. Select Working Group fortheEnergySectorCommittee – nominationsandplanning 2014

  16. 9. Anyotherbusiness?

  17. Thank you for your attention! • Contacts: • sylvain.lefebvre@industriall-europe.eu • corinna.zierold@industriall-europe.eu

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