The Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC), the third Chamber of the Republic with the advisory role, is criticized in a parliamentary report published Wednesday for the “too low investment of its members”, “of few publications.”
“Some written opinions are based on a very low number of hearings,” criticized the Macronist rapporteur (EPR) Daniel Laberonne before the Finance Committee of the National Assembly. “The rapporteur was surprised to notice that only six hearings had been organized to write a study on occupational health, which seems relatively modest given the problems raised by this topic,” according to the information report.
Daniel Labaronne pointed to the commission that for a remuneration of “2,500 euros net per month”, EESC advisers should only work in total “four days per month.” He also criticized “a real tropism in favor of environmental problems”, to the detriment of economic and social problems, and the fact that “his work is essentially the fruit of self -domaining” and not of the references by parliamentarians or the government.
Vary remuneration depending on participation in meetings
The EESC has 175 advisors, including 52 employee representatives, such as many companies, 45 under associative life and 26 under the defense of the environment. The report recommends “reduce the number of authorized excuses to justify the absence of a member to a meeting” or even “provide that the remuneration of the members increases, to a roof, as they are present during meetings.”
While the law establishes that citizens can seize the EESC based on a petition that has raised 150,000 signatures, the report asks the institution “rather than improve” their “platform for the deposit of requests and collection of signatures.” Finally, you want to “make public accounts” of the CSE, whose budget for 2025 amounts to 34.4 million euros, and wants to eliminate 12 “EESC days” of license from which the 154 agents of the institution benefit, pay an average of 5,678 euros of disgusting per month.
The EESC will also be the subject of a report from the auditing court that must be published before the summer holidays at the end of July. According to a “provisional observations report” of the court that was not made public, but revealed in March by Le Canard Enchaîné, the information provided by the EESC “about its financial situation is extremely succinct.”
Source: BFM TV
