Eurochild Response Papers to European Policy Developments

One of the working areas of Eurochild is Policy development. In this section you can find Policy Papers and positions which Eurochild has drafted until now: 

• Response to the EC Consultation of European NGOs on the Reconciliation of professional, private and family life, 11 March 2008
• Response to the EC Public Consultation on 'Europe's Social Reality', 15 February 2008
• Contribution to EC Communication "Promoting Solidarity between the Generations", 29 June 2007
• Contribution to Peer Review Seminar on Community Resource Centre Project offering family-centred network services, 12-13 June 2007, Malta
• Response to the Questionnaire on a EC proposal to designate 2010 as the European Year of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, 25 May 2007
• Contribution to the Civil Society Consultation on a European Agency for Fundamental Rights, 18 May 2007
• Preliminary Position on the proposed "European Alliance for Families", 20 November 2006
• Position on the EC Communication "The demographic future of Europe - from challenge to opportunity", 26 October 2006
• Response to the EC Communication "Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child", 5 September 2006
• Position concerning Employment and the concept of "Flexicurity", 24 August 2006
• Position on the EC Guidelines for Preparing National Reports on Strategies for Social Protection and Social Inclusion, 10 May 2006

To download the Guidelines, click here.
For more information on the National Reports, please go to the website of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

• Position on the EC draft Communication "Working together, working better: A new framework for the open coordination of social protection and inclusion policies in the European Union" (Communication on Streamlining). 13 October 2005

• Contribution to the Consultation about the EC Green Paper on "Confronting democratic change - a new solidarity between the generations". 13 October 2005

For more information about the Green Paper on Demographic change click here.

• Position on the EC "Draft recommendations to member states regarding a code of conduct for non-profit organisations to promote transparency and accountability best practices". 26 August 2005

In order to download the draft recommendation of the EC, click here.

• Response to the Questionnaire concerning the evaluation of Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) in the field of social protection. 28 June 2005

• Letter to Commissioner Frattini on his intention to draft a Communication on the Rights of the Child. 2 June 2005

Joint Policy Action

• Joint Eurochild - Euronet response to the EC consultation on the revised impact assessment guidelines, July 2008 

• Letter to the Group of Commissioners on Fundamental Rights on how the Child Rights Action Group (CRAG) sees the EU strategy on child rights and organisation of the Forum on Child Rights, 3 December 2007

• Letter to Francisco Fonseca Morillo, Director of DG Justice, Freedom and Security on civil society participation in the European Forum on lacking progress for the organisation of the second Forum on the Rights of the child, 10 October 2007

• Letter to Francisco Fonseca Morillo, Director of DG Justice, Freedom and Security on civil society participation in the first European Forum on the Rights of the Child in Berlin in June 2007, 30 May 2007

• Letter to Commissioner Franco Frattini by CRAG on the Implementation of the Communication on the Rights of the Child, 16 February 2007

• Letters to Commissioners Franco Frattini (Justice, Freedom and Security), Vladimir Spidla (Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities), Benita Ferrero-Waldner (External Relations and European neighbourhood policy) and Louis Michel (Development and Humanitarian Aid) on the planned Commission Communication on Child Rights, 12 November 2005