The opinion analyses the extension at European level of the ban on the export of prohibited pesticides, initiated by Belgium in response to environmental and health concerns and unfair competition in the agricultural and food sectors. Belgium is seen as a key player in promoting an EU-wide...
Cet avis recommande une série de politiques de « Transition Juste » à mener dans le cadre des engagements de la communauté internationale pour l’humanité, la planète et la prospérité afin de rendre le développement des sociétés socialement et écologiquement soutenable.
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This opinion identifies certain PCD issues linked to the European Green Deal. It looks more specifically at strategies linked to sustainable food systems, in particular the “Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system”. The introduction recalls that the...
Opinion of the Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development on the UN Global Social Protection Fund. This opinion was ratified by the Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development on 25 October 2021. The original opinion was drafted in Dutch.
Selon la loi de 1997 sur « la Coordination de la politique fédérale de développement durable », l’avant-projet de plan élaboré par la Commission interdépartementale a été soumis à la consultation publique du 9 avril au 8 juin 2021. Le gouvernement belge doit en effet adopter un tel plan endéans...
This report comes at the end of the mandate of the Advisory Council on Policy Coherence for Development. It presents the Council’s vision on policy coherence together with an overview of its recommendations and recent developments in the field of policy coherence for development.
The subject of this opinion is European and Belgian policymaking in the field of biofuels in transport, in the context of Belgium’s National Energy-Climate Plan 2030 and the 2018/2001 Renewable Energies Directive (2021-2030). This directive allows Member States to reduce and even eliminate the...
This opinion refers to the coherence of Belgian policies in terms of food and nutritional security with the international commitments undertaken by Belgium within the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as well as with regard to the right...
This opinion relates to Belgium’s mandate within the World Bank group. It analyses the working of the World Bank and raises instances of lack of policy coherence in terms of agriculture and food security, and of decent work and human rights as a whole. On this basis, it makes recommendations to...
This opinion relates to the coherence of policies for development in Central Africa, namely Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC plays a predominant role in this opinion. Coherence is addressed from various angles: trade and investment, agriculture and food, migration and...