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Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the Council has been asked to make a statement on the subject of social dialogue and the tripartite social summit. The Council is fully in agreement with Parliament’s positive assessment of the significance of the European social dialogue and notes the good progress and the encouraging results that have been achieved in connection with the informal summits to date, despite the lack of a formalised institutional framework for these meetings.
Close contact based on reciprocal trust between the public authorities and the parties of the labour market at European, national and local level is of crucial importance for strengthening economic progress, prosperity and social integration in Europe. The parties stated in the declaration of the European Council in Laeken that the Standing Committee on Employment was not living up to its aims and that the parties would like to see the committee replaced by an established practice of holding tripartite social summits. The Laeken European Council and the Barcelona European Council concluded that such a social summit should be held prior to each spring summit. On 26 June this year the Commission submitted a proposal for a decision by the Council on the establishment of a tripartite social summit together with the abolition of the Standing Committee on Employment. The Danish Presidency gave the proposal high priority and worked towards a rapid resolution. However, during the initial work in the Council it emerged that the proposal gave rise to a number of issues and legal and institutional problems which could not be resolved immediately. The Presidency wishes to work towards a position being taken at the Council summit on 3 December on how the efforts towards establishing the social summit are to continue. Should it be decided to continue working on a proposal for a formal decision, then devising the further details will not be possible until during the Greek Presidency. However, there is nothing to prevent the social summits being held on an informal basis without the basis of a decision, as has been the case to date.
I hope that this answers the question of what the Council intends to do to establish the social summit. The issue of consultation with Parliament has not yet been discussed by the Council. Once the Council has decided the details of how the social summit is to be established there will be a basis for discussing how Parliament can be involved.
I would like to end by thanking Parliament for having raised the issue of social dialogue and the tripartite social summit. Indeed, it provides a good opportunity to discuss various aspects of this important issue. I hope that we will have a good discussion and I can assure you that the Danish Presidency will take care to include the points of view put forward today in its further deliberations."@en1
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