1. EUROPEAN COMMISSION
2014-2019
The policy commitments
of the Juncker commission
This chart,produced by Burson-Marsteller Brussels,outlines the policy commitments given by members of
the Juncker Commission during their hearings before the European Parliament,allowing you to evaluate the
commissioners’progress in matching their words with actions during the Commission’s five-year mandate.
• Boost growth and jobs through an Investment Package focused on energy and broadband networks,transport
infrastructure,education,research and innovation
• Introduce a digital single market package,including a proposal to modernise copyright rules
• Establish a new Energy Union based on diversity,affordability and efficiency of energy sources,and make Europe
the leader in renewable energy
• Exploit the full potential of the internal market in products and services,bringing the industrial sector back to 20%
of EU GDP by 2020
• Complete banking reform with stricter supervision and resolution rules,and complete the financial services
regulatory framework
• Promote labour mobility in fields with persistent vacancies and skills mismatches,and review
the Posted Workers Directive
• Work for a common corporate tax base and implement measures to combat money laundering
• Continue reform of the Economic and Monetary Union to preserve the stability of the euro
• Negotiate a reasonable and balanced EU-US free trade agreement based on reciprocal benefits and transparency
• Conclude a comprehensive EU-US data protection agreement and conduct a review of the Safe Harbour agreement
• Conclude EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights
• Launch a new policy on legal migration,starting with a review of the Blue Card Directive and implementation of
a common asylum policy
• Step up operational capacity of the EU border agency,Frontex,vigorously enforcing rules to penalise human traffickers
• Position Europe as a stronger global actor in foreign,trade,financial,development and neighbourhood policies
• Review the legislation for authorisation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
• Propose an inter-institutional agreement on a mandatory transparency register for interest representatives
• Further develop and integrate capital markets into a future Capital Markets Union
Jean-Claude
Juncker
• Review existing legislation and propose,
by early 2015,the withdrawal of unnecessary
legislation and regulation
• Adopt a revised or new inter-institutional agreement
on better regulation by the end of 2015
• Work for an inter-institutional agreement creating a
mandatory lobby register covering the European
Commission,the European Parliament and the Council
• Swiftly conclude the EU’s accession to the European
Convention of Human Rights
• Systematically monitor the compliance of
proposals with fundamental rights at each stage of
the legislative process
• Organise an annual colloquium on the state of
fundamental rights
• Consult the Parliament on the main policy choices
of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and
fully implement the Framework Agreement between
the Commission and Parliament;resume negotiations
to review Parliament’s access to classified
CFSP information
• Work with Parliament for pragmatic solutions
to improve implementation of the Declaration of
Political Accountability (DPA)
• Facilitate the organisation of parliamentary work by
holding meetings with Parliament before and/or
after Foreign Affairs Council meetings
• Enhance Parliament’s involvement in
international agreements
• Ensure full co-ownership by all member states when
setting the strategic priorities of EU foreign policy
• Restructure the European External Action Service
(EEAS) management system and streamline EEAS
decision-making structures to improve the integration
of crisis management and other issues
• Improve the deployment of staff and budgets to adapt
to changing political priorities on the ground
• Recommend increased use of qualified majority voting
(QMV) in the CFSP and the Common Security and
Defence Policy (CSDP),when appropriate
• Create a better understanding of the LisbonTreaty
provisions on permanent structured cooperation
to support stronger defence cooperation between
member states
Frans
Timmermans
Federica
Mogherini
Kristalina
Georgieva
• Table a proposal for the revision of the Multiannual
Financial Framework
• Tackle the issue of unpaid bills in the EU budget
• Ensure that the EU budget is focused on results:
contribute to a stronger performance culture in
relation to the EU budget,including by enhancing
performance-based budgeting across the Commission
• Ensure sound financial management of EU
programmes,in particular by reinforcing
the effectiveness and efficiency of control strategies
• Demonstrate zero tolerance of fraud,suspending
payments in cases of repeated irregularities
• Increase the financial transparency system for
beneficiaries of EU funds by improving the quality
and comparability of data provided
• Improve staff mobility and develop a corporate
talent management policy
• Achieve a 40% target for women in senior and
middle management in the Commission by 2019
• Tackle fragmentation,technical standards,
interoperability and red tape to ensure that
consumers have access to cross-border online content
within a real digital single market
• Support Věra Jourová in reforming data
protection rules
• Strengthen Europe’s capacity to respond to cyber
threats,including swift adoption of the proposed
Directive on network and information security
• Develop a proposal to reform copyright,taking into
account new technologies,new uses and new market
conditions,supporting innovation,fair remuneration
for creators and better consumer choice beyond
national borders
• Work with Günther Oettinger to abolish roaming
charges for normal phone use and to enshrine net
neutrality in legislation
• Work to abolish barriers to cross-border e-commerce,
ensure adequate levels of data protection within
the online marketplace,and boost trust in
the digital economy
• Set up an EU-wide online dispute resolution platform
by 2016
• Identify solutions to enable research institutes and
universities to deal with text- and data-mining
• Implement digital government and public e-services
in the Commission by introducing e-invoices and
e-procurement by 2015 and e-signature by the end
of the mandate
Andrus
Ansip
• Ensure energy security through the diversification
of supply and energy efficiency
• Make the EU the world’s number one in
renewable energies­
• Improve,reinforce and apply EU energy
market legislation
• Develop a more assertive approach to European
energy diplomacy
• Ensure that Russian energy companies operating in the
EU unequivocally respect European rules
• Take forceful action,including infringement procedures,
to complete the internal energy market
• Promote improved energy efficiency
• Lead the fight against climate change,including
in the COP-21 talks
• Maintain the carbon leakage mechanism beyond 2020
• Step up efforts in research and innovation
in support of the Energy Union
Maros
Sefcovic
Valdis
Dombrovskis
• Present,in 2015,proposals to deepen Economic and
Monetary Union (EMU) and ensure the stability of the
euro,including a review of the‘six pack’and‘two pack’
legislation and a proposal for a more efficient external
representation of the EMU
• Improve implementation of Country-Specific
Recommendations (CSRs) to boost growth,
competitiveness,investment and job creation
• Streamline and reinforce the European Semester to
ensure a more joined-up approach to economic,social
and employment policies,including the establishment
of a real dialogue with employers and trade unions at
national and European level
• Bring the‘Troika’under the EU framework,making
it more legitimate and accountable
• Promote economic and social impact assessments
as an integral part of any future stability support
programme for eurozone countries
• Encourage all member states to set a minimum wage
• Ensure close cooperation with Parliament and promote
the full use of the Economic Dialogue mechanism
between the EU institutions and the Eurogroup
Jyrki
Katainen
• Stimulate investment and strengthen
competitiveness to boost growth and jobs
• Propose an Investment Package,within three months
of taking office,based on both public and private
investment and minimising debt and deficit
• Create jobs while preserving the EU’s social market
economy model
• Increase the lending capacity of the European
Investment Bank,of national promotional banks,
and of other European financial instruments
• Enforce the Services Directive
• Foster innovation and sustainable competitiveness,
concentrating on research and development and
fair free trade agreements
• Deepen the EU’s economic governance framework
and increase member states’commitment to reform
• Promote the digital single market
• Promote the energy single market;focus on
renewables from the non-food sector and reform
the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS)
• Support SMEs by developing standards for high-
quality securitisation and cross-border credit
information;develop the European market for
private placement
• Complete the banking union and build a Capital
Markets Union
Günther
Oettinger
• Reform EU copyright rules
• Preserve,protect and support the European cultural
sector and creative industries,and promote quality
media content
• Make progress on the Directive on web accessibility
• Turn Europeana into a major European digital cultural
platform for borderless access and use of all types
of cultural content
• Encourage the early adoption of the Directive on
network and information security
• Make full use of digital technologies to drive public
sector modernisation
• Promote greater transparency,more participation,
better interoperability and more openness in the way
the Commission works with its stakeholders
• Provide legal certainty for the telecoms sector to
foster investment and innovation
• Promote digital industrial innovation
• Conclude an ambitious European Data Protection
Regulation in 2015 and prepare reform of
the e-Privacy Directive
Johannes
Hahn
• Ensure‘quality before speed’in enlargement talks,
with a focus on the rule of law,market economy
and democracy
• Encourage enlargement countries to comply with
the acquis,values and principles of the EU;involve
national parliaments and civil society in reform
• Implement pre-accession funding and work with
international financial institutions to multiply EU
leverage on reform
• Communicate the benefits of enlargement to
EU citizens
• Promote regional cooperation in theWestern Balkans,
focusing on infrastructure and mobility
• Pursue accession talks withTurkey in line with the
Ankara Protocol;strengthen economic dialogue with
Ankara and modernise the EU-Turkey Customs Union
• Ensure that there is no‘cherry-picking’on the EU’s
four freedoms for EEA and EFTA countries
• In 2015 propose a new,reformed European
Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) to give the EU more
political and economic leverage to its East and South
• Support the sovereignty,independent decisions and
democratic development of the ENP partner countries
and boost their reform efforts
• Work for a political process in Syria;stronger state
institutions and political dialogue in Libya;an
improvement of the humanitarian situation in Gaza;
and a strong and vibrant civil society in Egypt­­­
Cecilia
Malmström
• Ensure the presence of democratic freedoms,
transparency and accountability in trade policy,
to improve people’s quality of life
• Ensure that EU trade policy is driven by citizens’
interests and that negotiations are open and
transparent
• Maintain the jurisdiction of courts based in the EU
in the case of investor disputes
• Conclude a truly comprehensive agreement on the
TransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
• Maintain the current level of protection offered by
existing EU labour,environment and public
health standards
• Keep decision-making powers for new regulation
under current European democratic control
Neven
Mimica
• Launch an ambitious post-2015 framework
to eradicate poverty through inclusive and
sustainable development
• Launch a new framework for the EU’s partnership
with African,Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
• Bring a development dimension into free trade and
economic partnership agreements
• Ensure that all member states commit to invest 0.7%
of their gross national income in development aid
• Allocate 20% from development funds to basic social
services and secondary education,and more than
20% to climate change-related action
• Address corporate social responsibility,including
child labour and labour standards,in the garment
and textile industry
Miguel
Arias Cañete
• Build an internal energy market that ensures safety,
sustainability and competitiveness,and that
addresses issues of security of supply
• Contribute to the implementation of the 2030
climate and energy framework
• Lead the fight against climate change and achieve
ambitious goals,including making the EU the world
leader in renewables,taking steps to reach an energy
efficiency target of 30% by 2030,and integrating
climate action in all other Commission policies
• Assess the environmental and socio-economic impact
of shale gas and put forward ideas for new legislation
• Adopt the existing legislative proposal for a Market
Stability Reserve in the EU EmissionsTrading System
(ETS),and propose legislation for the distribution
between member states of the 2030 greenhouse
gas emissions targets in non-ETS sectors
• Ensure efficient use of EU funding for energy
networks,renewables,energy efficiency and low-
carbon technologies,such as carbon capture
and storage
• Work with theTransport Commissioner to move
the entire transport system towards a more
efficient management of traffic flows and
non-road alternatives
Karmenu
Vella
Vytenis
Andriukaitis
• Complete implementation of the Cross-border
Healthcare Directive and improve access to medicines
in Europe through cooperation on health technology
assessments (HTA)
• Work with member states to complete implementation
of theTobacco Products Directive and ensure timely
adoption of related secondary legislation
• Defend EU health and food safety standards in
theTransatlanticTrade and Investment Partnership
(TTIP)
• Continue work on a performance assessment of
member state health systems,including the creation
of a common methodology
• Focus on three‘Ps’:prevention,promotion and protection
• Support the pooling of member states’
healthcare resources
• Review legislation on the authorisation of Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture within
the first six months
• Make progress on the definition of criteria of
endocrine disruptors
Dimitris
Avramopoulos
• Carry out a fitness check of current legal migration
legislation and establish a new European approach
on legal migration
• Complete the review of the Blue Card scheme
• Ensure effective enforcement of rules such as the
Employer Sanctions Directive,relating
to irregular migrants
• Clarify legal pathways for all categories of workers
seeking to reach Europe
• Deal with irregular migration by ensuring smooth
returns,in cooperation with non-EU member states
• Reach out to citizens,notably by making use of
the‘Europe for Citizens’programme
• Ensure the Common European Asylum System is fully
implemented and develop a strategy to improve
the EU’s response to emergency situations
• Analyse possible further steps based on the results
of the health check on the Dublin system
• Table,in 2015,new proposals on the smart borders
package and reinforce the effectiveness of Frontex
• Step up fight against terrorism,in particular by
launching measures to address the issue of
‘foreign fighters’
• Fully implement EU law in the fight against organised
crime,terrorism and corruption,including by
strengthening police cooperation
• Review the Europe 2020 Strategy to support
sustainable growth
• Reinforce the European Semester,taking into
account employment and social policies and
involving social partners
• Take into account the social impact of all upcoming
EU measures
• Develop social impact assessments for future
conditional stability support programmes for
eurozone countries in difficulty
• Develop tools to identify skills needed in sectors of
strong job creation potential,such as information
technology,health,and the green economy
• Reform the EURES platform to increase mobility
• Accelerate implementation of theYouth Guarantee,
the European Alliance for Apprenticeships and
the Quality Framework forTraineeships
• Increase action on vocational training and
adult education
• Review progress on the European Disability Strategy
• Review theWorkingTime Directive
• Improve health and safety of workers following
an evaluation of existing legislation
Pierre
Moscovici
Christos
Stylianides
Phil
Hogan
Jonathan
Hill
Violeta
Bulc
Elzbieta
Bienkowska
Vera
Jourová
Tibor
Navracsics
Corina
Cretu
Margrethe
Vestager
Carlos
Moedas
VICE PRESIDENTS’ TEAMS
Marianne
Thyssen
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• Encourage swift adoption of the revised Small Claims
Regulation and break the deadlock on the market
surveillance and product safety package
• Bring negotiations on the data protection reform
package to a conclusion within six months
• Wrap-up a comprehensive data protection agreement
between the EU and the United States and review
the Safe Harbour agreement
• Ensure equal enforcement of consumer protection
legislation throughout the EU
• Further develop civil justice cooperation,and give
priority to the establishment of the European Public
Prosecutor’s Office by 2016
• Ensure adoption of the anti-discrimination directive
and develop a lesbian,gay,bisexual,transgender and
intersex (LGBTI) action plan with member states
• Adopt a strategic framework on gender equality,with
an emphasis on pay,employment,pensions,and
ending violence against women
• Adopt a directive on women on boards by the end
of 2015 and make progress on the Maternity
Leave Directive
• Ensure that the Europe 2020 targets are met:
more students completing higher education,and
fewer pupils leaving school early
• Ensure Erasmus+ gets the“funding it deserves”
• Make improvements to the Bologna system,in
particular to make it more flexible
• Ensure that the creative industries flourish in the
digital world,that copyright reform promotes the
cultural diversity that is at the core of Europe’s
identity,and that trade agreements do not
undermine the role of culture
• Fight youth unemployment,including through
the Youth Guarantee,and develop new platforms
to ensure youth participation in policy-making
• Spread the popularity of the European
Voluntary Service
• Support grassroots sport with a new €300m fund and
the EuropeanWeek of Sport,and fight against fraud
in sport (including doping and match-fixing)
• Preserve and protect minority languages
• Ensure impartiality and rigour in the enforcement
of competition law
• Tackle the key obstacles for the creation of growth
and jobs
• Ensure a level playing field in the single market,with
high priority on the digital single market through
close cooperation with the commissioners responsible
for data privacy and ownership of personal data
• Build on state aid modernisation and continue
investigations into tax benefits for corporations
• Work towards more competition abroad in EU trade
negotiations and at theWorldTrade Organisation,
and against less competition at home
• Pay particular attention to the issue of‘gender
balance’,to ensure that talent is not wasted
• Encourage and provide incentives to the private
sector to invest more in research and development,
to achieve the 3% R&D expenditure target
• Defend science,research and innovation,including
from funding cuts by member states
• Ensure that Europe is a leader in‘green growth’
• Horizon 2020:address on the problem of financial
continuity for research programmes,ensure a
particularly strong focus on participation of small and
medium-sized enterprises,and pay special attention
to societal challenges faced by citizens
• Horizon 2020:respect the target of investing 85%
of funding allocated to energy in‘climate-friendly’
research and development
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• Ensure zero tolerance of fraud and a stronger focus on
performance in cohesion policy,including compliance
with the new rules on ex-ante conditionality
• Maximise the contribution of regional policy to
investment in the real economy,contributing to job
creation and growth,in particular for SMEs
• Pay particular attention to the integration of smart
specialisation strategies and synergies between
cohesion policy,other EU funds and
urban development
• Ensure that environmental policy is fully considered
in cohesion policy in the new programming period
within a smart and sustainable development strategy
• Launch a debate with Parliament about cohesion
policy post-2020 in the latter part of the year
• Ensure that multi-annual stability of partnership
agreements and programmes is the general rule,
with an emphasis on simplification and institutional
capacity-building in those regions and countries
that are less advanced
• Defend the specificities and principles of
humanitarian aid on the basis of the Consensus
on Humanitarian Aid
• Visit the three Ebola-affected countries,to understand
what needs to be done to draft a plan for cooperation
and coordination
• Speak up with added vigour for the respect of
international law,including international
humanitarian law,international human rights law
and refugee law,as well as for the four
humanitarian principles
• Continue the core mandate of providing essential
assistance to victims including in‘forgotten crises’–
“act as the voice of the voiceless”
• Work closely with the High Representative and
other commissioners to coordinate action;insist on
the‘in-but-out’approach for the EU’s humanitarian
aid policy
• Continue work on resilience:investing in resilience
today is much more cost efficient than responding
to a crisis tomorrow
• Sustain recognition of the specificity of humanitarian
aid in the EU budget and secure the Emergency Aid
Reserve (EAR) as a flexible instrument to respond to
new crises and disasters with sufficient commitments
and payments
• Build an open,transparent and trustful relationship
with MEPs,and especially with the Development
Committee;explore options with Parliament on
how to provide the best input to the 2016World
Humanitarian Summit
• Look,in the first year of the mandate,into the need
to revise the Humanitarian Aid Regulation
• Protect the integrity of the Stability and Growth Pact,
including ensuring the compliance of member states
with any excessive deficit procedures
• Reduce deficits and boost investment through a
€300bn package to create jobs and infrastructure
for the future
• Work towards the adoption of the Financial
TransactionTax (FTT)
• Fight against tax fraud and evasion,and put the
proposed Directive for a Common Consolidated
CorporateTax Base (CCCTB) back on the
political agenda
• By 1 May 2016,move to a more ambitious Customs
Code that includes rules for the interpretation of the
‘last substantial transformation’principle
• Strengthen the“architecture”of the euro by
improving both its social and its economic
dimensions
• Ensure taxation on sales in the digital sphere:
it should apply where profits are made,and
this needs to be monitored closely
• Carry out a comprehensive screening of Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP) legislation and propose a
simplification and subsidiarity strategy in 2015,
ensuring stakeholders are properly involved in
the process
• Look at the potential for further simplifying direct
payments,in particular for‘greening’the CAP,rural
development and the fruit and vegetable scheme
• Conduct a mid-term review of CAP reform,once
proper data is available
• Support the use of the ordinary legislative procedure
for the new School Scheme for distribution of
agricultural products
• Improve implementation of theWater
Framework Directive
• Examine how the agriculture sector can contribute
to boosting energy efficiency and cutting emissions
• Ensure sufficient funding for start-up investments
in rural areas
• Improve traceability standards for sheep
• Maintain essential border protection for sensitive
sectors in theTransatlanticTrade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP)
• Ensure harmonisation of animal welfare
across the EU
• Assess need for a legal instrument to address unfair
trading practices in the food supply chain
• Develop a Capital Markets Union including,in the
short term,standards for high quality securitisation,
better cross-border credit information for small
businesses,and a review of the Prospectus Directive
• Create an effective resolution regime for non-bank
financial institutions
• Give priority to proposals that encourage European
long-term investment funds
• Tackle remaining sources of risk to financial stability
by seeking agreement on outstanding legislative
proposals such as those on Money Market Funds
and benchmarks
• Work for rapid adoption of the proposed banking
structural reform to limit the systemic risk of
the trading activities of‘too-big-to-fail’banks
• Monitor the impact of the Deposit Guarantee
Scheme and consider alternatives before July 2019
• If necessary,propose a strengthening of the oversight
and regulation of shadow banking
• Ensure that transport contributes to the EU’s
environmental goals by promoting renewables
and alternative fuels
• Give priority to implementation of the Single
EuropeanTransport Area and ofTrans-European
Transport Networks (TEN-T)
• Work for the rapid adoption of the Single European
Sky and Fourth Railway packages
• Push for the deployment of the European RailTraffic
Management System (ERTMS)
• Press for the swift adoption of the revised
Air Passenger Rights Regulation and address gaps
and shortcomings regarding passenger rights
• Promote the use of Intelligent Transport Systems
across all modes of transport
• Maintain the highest level of safety and security
in transport
• Oppose social dumping and consider action to
make transport an attractive profession
• Report,early in the mandate,on the remaining barriers
to a fully-functioning single market for services
• Ensure efficient implementation of the Services
Directive and a modernised Professional
Qualifications Directive
• Propose new strategy for the internal market,with
priorities for legislative and non-legislative action
• Unveil measures in 2015 to make EU industry fit for
a globalised economy and for technological,
demographic and ecological changes
• Review implementation of the Public Procurement
Directive to tackle corruption,and help SMEs apply
the new rules
• Implement the eCall system as a priority
• Reach agreement on the Car Registration Regulation
• Report on implementation of the Standardisation
Regulation
• Ensure implementation of the Defence Procurement
Directive for a well-functioning internal market
for defence
• Improve REACH implementation
• Encourage worldwide harmonisation of automotive
legislation
• SMEs:review the Small Business Act,facilitate handling
of honest bankruptcy,and simplify legislation for SMEs
• Ensure implementation of the Entrepreneurship
2020 Action Plan
• Enforce the Late Payment Directive,and reduce
payment deadlines from 60 to 30 days
• Complete implementation of the patent package
and finalise reform of theTrade Mark Law and
Trade Secrets proposal
• Mainstream environmental policy in every area of
economic policy
• Ensure member states comply with EU environmental
legislation,including REACH and the‘polluter pays’
principle
• Assess the Habitat,Birds and Environmental Liability
Directives as well as the circular economy and air
packages,to determine the way forward
• Meet the 2020 biodiversity targets
• Put in place multiannual plans and regionalisation
­­­for fisheries,beginning with the Baltic Sea and
the North Sea
• Consider eco-labelling for fisheries and aquaculture
products,following consultation and debate