Official Journal
of the European Communities

ISSN 0378-6986

C 158
Volume 40
26 May 1997

English edition

Information and Notices

Notice No

Contents

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I Information

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II Preparatory Acts

Economie and Social Committee

Session of March 1997

97/C 158/01

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on:
— the 'Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the Economic and Social Committee concerning regulatory transparency in the internal market for information society services', and
— the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive amending for the third time Directive 83/189/EEC laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations'

1

97/C 158/02

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Annual Report of the Cohesion Fund 1995'

5

97/C 158/03

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) establishing a European monitoring centre for racism and xenophobia'

9

97/C 158/04

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a Council Directive on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to collective redundancies'

11

97/C 158/05

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Decision establishing the Community action programme "European voluntary service for young people"'

12

97/C 158/06

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on 'Employment, Competitiveness and Economic Globalization'

14

97/C 158/07

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Communication from the Commission - The challenges facing the European defence-related industry, a contribution for action at European level'

32

97/C 158/08

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on 'Relations between the European Union and China'

42

97/C 158/09

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on 'Craft industries and small- and medium-sized enterprises'

53

97/C 158/10

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on:
— the 'Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the basic Decision relating to the Socrates programme to include Turkey among the beneficiary countries',
— the 'Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council amending the basic Decision relating to the third phase of the Youth for Europe programme to include Turkey among the beneficiary countries', and
— the 'Proposal for a Decision of the Council amending the basic Decision relating to the Leonardo programme to include Turkey among the beneficiary countries'

74

97/C 158/11

Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the 'Proposal for a European Parliament and Council Directive concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous preparations'

76

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