26.8.2022   

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 323/133


Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1628 as regards the extension of the empowerment of the Commission to adopt delegated acts

(COM(2022) 113 final — 2022/0080 (COD))

(2022/C 323/23)

Referral

Council of the European Union, 24.3.2022

European Parliament, 23.3.2022

Legal basis

Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Section responsible

Single Market, Production and Consumption

Adopted at plenary

18.5.2022

Plenary session No

569

Outcome of vote

(for/against/abstentions)

199/2/1

Since the Committee unreservedly endorses the contents of the proposal and has already set out its views on the subject in its earlier opinion INT/763 (1), adopted on 18 February 2015, it decided, at its 569th plenary session of 18 and 19 May 2022 (meeting of 18 May), by 199 votes to two, with one abstention, to issue an opinion endorsing the proposed text and to refer to the position it had taken in the above-mentioned document.

Brussels, 18 May 2022.

The President of the European Economic and Social Committee

Christa SCHWENG


(1)  OJ C 251, 31.7.2015, p. 31.