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". – Mr President, as the President-in-Office has already said, the Commission has presented a proposal for this tripartite social summit for growth and employment by means of a Council decision. This proposal was not isolated; it was within the framework of the need to change and modernise the European social dialogue.
The aim of this proposal is to formalise the social dialogue summits held in Stockholm in March 2001 and Barcelona in March 2002. There is nothing to stop us from holding another informal meeting but, as the President-in-Office has already said, it is very important to formalise this tripartite social summit, because the social partners agreed to it at the European Summit at Laeken. In any case, it will be a summit on growth and employment and it will replace the existing Standing Committee on Employment.
This forum will play a very important role as far as the implementation of the Lisbon process is concerned, because it is the proper forum for the social partners to submit their proposals and their common agenda for the implementation of the Lisbon strategy.
The Commission chose Article 202 as the legal basis for the establishment of the tripartite social summit, since that was the legal basis for the Standing Committee on Employment.
Although there is no provision for consultation of the European Parliament under that article, the Commission anticipated in its proposal that Parliament would be consulted on the introduction of a tripartite social summit because it is a very sensitive and important issue.
The prerogative as to whether to follow this suggestion or not rests with the Council. The Commission considers it of the utmost importance for the proposal to be rapidly adopted. As I have already said, this view is strongly endorsed by the European interprofessional social partners. It will ensure greater consistency between the different dialogues in which the social partners are involved.
We held informal discussions in the Council and a large majority of Member States agreed on this issue. We believe we will overcome some of the problems – legal or not – which exist in some Member States. I hope that this proposal will receive political support in the Social Affairs Council on 3 December, which would allow it to be adopted at the General Affairs and External Relations Council on 9 and 10 December, so that we can have a formal tripartite social summit during the Greek Presidency."@en1
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