NEPSI COUNCIL

Each signatory European industry sector association and trade union federation is represented within a bi-partite Council composed of 30 Members, including 4 chairpersons, with an equal number of representatives of the employers’ and workers’ delegations.

The NEPSI Council is the only decision-making body under the Agreement. Two permanent co-chairmen (from the producing industries) and two permanent vice-co-chairmen (from the downstream-user industries) are appointed among the Employer and Employee delegations to chair NEPSI Council meetings.

This Council is in charge of:

• Follow-up of the application and implementation of the agreement
• Interpretation and application issues
• Adaptation of the Good Practices
• Communication with third parties
• Review of the sectors’ biennial consolidated reports
• Drafting of summary reports and executive summaries every two years.

The Council takes decisions by consensus or at a double majority of 75%.

The NEPSI Council is supported in its tasks by a Secretariat, which assures relations with public institutions, the press or the general public on its behalf.