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21st NAT Commission meeting 5 February 2024  

​​​​​The 21st NAT commission meeting will take place on Monday 5 February 2024 at the European Committee of the Regions, Rue Belliard 99-101, Brussels room JDE 52. This meeting will be fully on-site. The public can follow the meeting in the listening room JDE53.​

For security reasons you need contact the NAT secretariat at the latest on the 1 February 2024 if you wish to participate in person.

This meeting will also being webstreamed here​.

All meeting documents are available through the CoR M​embers' Portal.

​Highlights of the meeting on 5 February 2024.

The following opinions will be discussed and adopted:

First discussion and adoption:

  • ​Plant reproductive material
  • ​​​​Erik KONCZER (HU/PES)​​

​On 5 July 2023, the European Commission adopted its proposals for a Regulation on plants obtained through new genomic techniques (NGT Regulation) and a Regulation on the reform of the rules governing the production and movement of plant reproductive material (PRM Regulation). The two legislative proposals have as their stated common objectives the development of improved plant varieties that require less fertiliser and pesticides and are better adapted to climate change.


  • ​​​Mental health
  • Mieczysław STRUK (PL/EPP)
The COVID-19 pandemic, Russia's aggression in Ukraine, the climate crisis, and other societal and economic pressures, have exacerbated the already poor levels of mental health in Europe. Before 2019, one in six Europeans suffered from mental health issues. The new Eurobarometer, published for the World Mental Health Day, highlights that almost half of respondents experienced an emotional or psychosocial problem, such as feeling depressed or anxious, in the past twelve months. There is no health without mental health and the EU citizens expect more from their healthcare services, their communities and the European Health Union.
 

On 7 June 2023, the Commission adopted the communication on a comprehensive approach to mental health. The communication has 20 flagship initiatives, identifies €1.23 billion in funding opportunities and has a focus on addressing vulnerable groups, such as children, young people, migrants and refugees.


The following opinions will be discussed:

  • ​The Future of the Common Agricultural Policy
  • ​Piotr CAŁBECKI (PL/EPP) and Isilda GOMES (PT/PES)

​Common agricultural policy (CAP) Strategic Plans (CSPs) are the key tool for delivering the CAP between 2023 and 2027. Drafted by Member States and approved by the Commission to ensure that overall EU objectives are met, the CSPs support farming and rural areas with a total of EUR 307 billion in public expenditure through the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (including national co-financing)

The first report on the CSPs published by the European Commission in November 2023 conclude that the new CAP strategic plans are overall an appropriate tool to pursue CAP policy objectives

 

    • Addressing medicine shortages
      ​Erika VON KALBEN (DE/GREENS) 

Every European citizen should have timely and equal access to critical medicines. In the last two decades however, drug shortages have increased significantly, affecting patients treatment options and threatening Europe's strategic autonomy in the field of public health.

Requested by the Member States and the Parliament, the Commission published in October a set of proposals for the immediate and short-to-medium term to enhance security of supply of critical medicines and make supply of medicines to Europe more resilient.

Read more about the medicine shortage.

 

    • ​​Creating an EU Blue deal from an agriculture and rural development perspective across EU Regions
    Karl VANLOUWE (BE/EA​)​​
​​​​​In recent years, we have witnessed extreme drought, but also extreme rainfall in which rivers flood entire areas. Climate change will further increase seasonal weather extremes, such as droughts and floods, and trigger more frequent incidences of high flows during the wet season and low flows during the dry season of the year.

On the one hand, there has never been a greater social awareness that climate change means that we need to step up the fight against droughts but also against floods. On the other hand, the understanding that 'water is a scarce and precious commodity' is something that does not translate enough into how we deal with our natural resource.

The opinion aims to contribute to the drafting of a European Blue Deal that, in collaboration with national, regional and local authorities, should map out the current challenges but also outline long-term solutions to coordinate water policy across borders



Contact:
Contact Person: Susanna Sjöström
Organizer: NAT secretariat
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