Traduction de «organised civil society » (Anglais → Français) :

16. Calls on the European Union, the Member States and organised civil society associations, as well as grass-roots/self-help organisations set up by people with experience of poverty, to make sure that, in meetings at various levels, more and more children from different cultures and social backgrounds have the opportunity to represent their region or country; calls on the EU and Member States to recognise national anti-poverty networks and organisations (such as the EAPN) as civil-society organisations and to support them systematically; calls on the EU and Member States to ensure that they incorporate these grass-roots organisations ...[+++] in their policy at all decision-making levels to make resources available to allow the most excluded children to express themselves by setting up long-term projects with them and providing sufficient financial and human resources; calls on all those concerned to support projects which enable children from different social and cultural backgrounds to meet, highlighting the multidisciplinary aspect of projects which allow artistic creation and giving children opportunities to express their own ideas about possible solutions and also to pass them on to others (peer exchange);

Civil society will be organising two events in preparation for the Lima Summit: the organised civil society conference, ESOSOC, and the conference of NGOs, non-organised societies. The Commission has provided financial backing for those conferences and a report will be presented on them at the Lima Summit.

2. Calls on all Member State governments, non-governmental organisations, civil society, and parent and professional associations to conduct exhaustive information campaigns on:

(6) In line with the earlier recommendation that the political and parliamentary dialogue should be extended to the social, business and trade union sectors and to the academic and scientific community, support should be given for the establishment of the Joint Consultative Committee provided for in Article 52 of the agreement to assist the Joint Committee in promoting dialogue with civil society; at the same time, in accordance with Article 43 of the Agreement, in which the parties recognise the role and potential contribution of organised civil society in the cooperation process and agree to promote effective dialogue with it, efforts ...[+++] shall be encouraged to devise formulas to enable civil society to take part in the framing of strategies for cooperation between the two regions.

43. Agrees with the Economic and Social Committee that the legitimacy of the Members of the institution derives primarily from their own expertise; recalls that it is the role of the Economic and Social Committee to represent the various forces within organised civil society; believes that the Committee will not fulfil its remit as a link between Europe and organised civil society by increasing its dependency on external expertise; has decided, therefore, to reduce appropriations against Article 260 ("Studies, surveys and consultations of a limited nature”) to EUR 575 000; insists, however, that these appropriations should not be use ...[+++]d exclusively for external experts at the expense of external studies and that remaining funds for external experts should be distributed proportionately between the various civil society groupings;

For a more precise definition of organised civil society, see the Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on "The role and contribution of civil society organisations in the building of Europe", OJ C329, 17.11.99 p.30.