Senior Officials Group on Telecommunications | SOGT [Abbr.] | SOG-T [Abbr.]

Senior Officials Group on standardisation in the field of Information Technology | SOGITS [Abbr.]

Senior Officials Group on Information Security | Senior Officials Group on the Security of Information Systems | SOG-IS [Abbr.]

Ad Hoc Preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials Environment for Europe

Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Group of Senior Officials on Co-operation Among Developing Countries in the Area of Shipping,Ports and Multimodal Transport

Ad Hoc Preparatory Working Group of Senior Officials

To improve the transparency and coherence of ET 2020 activities, the Commission — in cooperation with the Member States (including the trio of Council Presidencies) — will prepare an ET 2020 indicative rolling Work Plan, integrating and providing a clear overview of key activities and peer learning events planned for the informal meetings of senior officials, i.e. during the meetings of the Directors General for schools, for vocational education and training and for higher education (‘DG meetings’) and the High-Level Group on Education and Training, the ET 2020 Working Groups, the EQF Advisory Group and the Standing Group on Indicators a ...[+++]nd Benchmarks.

The Groups will report regularly to the relevant informal groups of senior officials (i.e. the DG meetings and the High-Level Group on Education and Training) which provide steering, and to the Education Committee which brings relevant outputs to the attention of the Council.

Given the importance of maintaining the highest possible security level, security certificates should be issued by a certification body recognised by the Management Committee within the framework of the ‘Mutual Recognition Agreement of Information Technology Security Evaluation Certificates’ of the Senior Officials Group on Information Systems Security (SOG-IS).

125. Calls on the Member States, in a spirit of good cooperation, to endorse the proposals included in the Commission’s action plan of 17 June 2015 for fair and efficient corporate taxation in the EU; believes that the Group’s legitimacy would benefit from increased transparency and accountability; advocates therefore that the Group’s governance and mandate be reshaped, including through the appointment of a permanent, politically accountable Chair, the improvement of its working methods, including a possible enforcement mechanism, the regular participation in the Group by finance ministers or senior officials, in order to raise its pr ...[+++]ofile, and enhanced information exchange within the Group with a view to effectively addressing BEPS issues; calls also for the criteria set in the Code to be updated and broadened in order to cover new forms of harmful tax practices, including in third countries; calls on the Chair of the Group and on the Council to regularly report to and exchange with its competent committee on the activities of the Group, in particular with regard to the presentation of its biannual reports to ECOFIN;