Task Forces

  • Carbon Market Forum: post-2020 EU Climate Policy
    Climate change has become a very important domain for EU policy. This refers not only to showing EU leadership in combating climate change, but also at a more general level, as a centrepiece of the “Europe 2020” economic growth strategy. This strategy has identified “sustainable...
  • The Quantity and Quality of Human Capital: Comparing the EU, US and China
    Chair: Jan-Eric Sundgren, Executive Vice President Public & Environmental Affairs, Volvo; former President of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Lead Rapporteur: Felix Roth, Research Fellow, CEPS; Postdoctoral Lecturer & Editor of Intereconomics Meetings: • 1st: 16 April...
  • CEPS Digital Forum Task Force on Building the Business Case for Smart and Sustainable Energy in Europe
    Prospectus (incl. registration form and agenda 1st meeting) Meetings Informal pre-Launch meeting: 18 April 2013 1st meeting 14 June 2013 (for agenda see Prospectus above) Rapporteurs and contact persons: Christian Egenhofer, Senior Fellow, CEPS, Head of the Energy and Climate programme Andrea...
  • CEPS Digital Forum Task Force on Online Personal Data Processing in the Context of the EU Data Protection Reform
    Rapporteur: Kristina Irion, Assistant Professor and Research Director at the Center for Media and Communication Studies of the Central European University Meetings 1st meeting: 7 November 2012  2nd meeting: 11 December 2012    3rd meeting: 9 January 2013 ...
  • CEPS Digital Forum Task Force on Copyright in the EU Digital Single Market
    Rapporteur: Giuseppe Mazziotti, CEPS Research Fellow & Co-Manager of the Digital Forum. Meetings Launch event: 7 November 2012 (16.30-18.00 at CEPS), keynote speaker: Michel Barnier, Commissioner responsible for copyright.   Workshop 1: 14 November 2012...
  • Supporting Long-term Investing and Retirement Savings
    Task Force Report under preparation. CEPS and ECMI wish to engage market participants, together with international experts, academics and regulators, in a discussion on long-term investing and long-term saving products, including private retirement savings. The purpose of this Task Force is to...
  • Towards Better Use of Credit Reporting in Europe
    In today’s world, financial and technological innovations are changing the space of information and the increasing use of electronic commerce is creating new demand for credit data and its security. The proposal for data protection regulation adopted earlier this year by the Commission is...
  • CEPS Carbon Market Forum: Review of EU ETS Issues
    The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on the EU ETS Review Issues is the third initiative of the  CEPS Carbon Market Forum, a three-year umbrella programme for carbon market-related activities, which will provide a neutral space where policy-makers and regulators can meet carbon market...
  • CEPS Carbon Market Forum: CDM Policy Review
    The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on the CDM Policy Review is the second initiative of the CEPS Carbon Market Forum, a three-year umbrella programme for carbon market-related activities, which will provide a neutral space where policy-makers and regulators can meet carbon market...
  • CEPS Carbon Market Forum: New Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC
    The CEPS Carbon Market Forum Task Force on New Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC is the first initiative of the CEPS Carbon Market Forum, a three-year umbrella programme for carbon market-related activities, which will provide a neutral space where policy-makers and regulators can meet...
  • Does the revised EU ETS Market produce the 'right' price signal?
    According to the EU ETS Directive (Art. 1), the objective of the ETS is to “promote GHG reductions in a cost-effective and economically efficient manner”. Hence, the over-arching objective is cost-effective achievement of a politically given target. By some, including most conventional...
  • Price Formation in Commodities Spot and Futures Markets
    The unstoppable race of commodity prices comes at a critical moment, when European and US economies are languishing in regaining the ground lost as a result of the recent financial crisis. Policy makers and the public opinion are shrouded in a mist of mounting worries and anger around commodity...
  • Transport and Climate Change
    CEPS launches a new Task Force which deals with “EU Transport Policy – Innovation, Integration and 21st Century Infrastructure”. The transport sector is a strategic sector, which is fundamental to all economic activity. However, EU transport greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are...