Policy Co-ordination Officer

Minister for Community Policy Co-ordination (ad interim)

The tasks of examining the national reports, promoting a policy debate on the implementation of policies and strategies, inter alia by using peer review methods, and drafting the Joint Social Protection Report require close and regular joint work between the EU-level Committees concerned with social protection, employment, economic policy coordination and healthcare.

Policy coordination is addressed through the 'open method of coordination' and the use of voluntary guidelines and recommendations.

EUR 1 million to support developing countries in the OECD BEPS inclusive framework e.g. paying for their participation costs, assisting them with BEPS implementation. EUR 1 million to support the international implementation of Addis Tax Initiative by donor and recipient countries, by supporting an international coordinating secretariat. EUR 0. 3 million (to be added to later) to support the participation of developing countries in the UN Tax Committee and sub-committees. A tripartite initiative on transfer pricing (with OECD and WB/IFC) to provide technical and policy support to developing countries in the transfer pricing area.

19. Stresses that a genuine EU Common External Energy Policy should go hand in hand with its Common Foreign and Security Policy; urges in this context better coordination between the VP/HR and the relevant Commissioners with the goal of enhancing the coherence of EU external energy security policies; calls on the Commission, therefore, to create a stronger cluster under the leadership of the VP/HR with the position of an appointee responsible for the coordination of such policies;