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Promoting a housing debate in the European Union
For a housing lobby in 2004
Housing policy and European integration problems
and perspectives Contribution to the 15th
informal meeting of Housing Ministers of the
European Union Padova, 27-28 November 2003
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Contribution to the Housing Ministers
Housing policy and European integration problems
and perspectives
The members of the Forum welcome the initiative
of the Housing Ministers to debate housing
policies and European integration as this theme
reflects the request made by the Forum during the
Ministers meeting in Brussels in
2001. Statement of the members of the Forum on
the interactions between housing policies and
European policies 1 - Defining the objectives
of housing policy must remain the competence of
the Member States in accordance with the Treaty
and its principle of subsidiarity 2 - The
housing policies of Member States are fully in
line with the basic objectives of the European
Union, notably for social and territorial
cohesion and Fundamental Rights 3 - Instruments
for implementing housing policies defined at the
national, regional and local levels, are
increasingly framed by Community law, notably in
relation to - Stability pact pressure on
budgetary resources and housing budgets - VAT
on Housing reduced rates for the social and the
private housing sectors - Procurement
tendering procedures social and environmental
clauses - State Aid compatibility of housing
subsidies to undertakings - Mortgage loans -
Basel II consumer protection and prudential
ratios for banks - SGIs organisation and
financing of the social housing sector -
Standardisation urban security and extension
into the fields of services and town
planning.   4 - The increasing convergence
between the objectives of national housing
policies and Community policies must be
exploited, notably in relation to -
Fundamental rights human dignity and access to
decent housing - Employment, mobility, growth
key role of housing - Social inclusion strategy
common objective of access for all to decent
housing - Immigration integration through
housing and the urban environment - Tax system
extension of low rates of VAT to the housing
sector - Structural funds 2007 and Community
programmes eligibility of housing in urban
areas - Energy policy potential for energy
savings in the housing sector - Sustainable
development town planninghousingtransportenvi
ronment relationship.   5 The Members of the
Forum ask the European Housing Ministers to join
them in actively lobbying on housing issues in
2004 by   - taking part in the Community
legislative process in view of the increasing
impact of Community law on national housing
policies - by intensifying their
representation in their national body for
European coordination - by nominating a housing
Councillor within their Permanent Representation
in Brussels - by finding an Institutional
anchor in the Council for their annual
meeting - by supporting the Forums proposal to
establish a housing intergroup within the future
European Parliament   - exploiting
European policies, notably by making a more
aggressive political statement - on
employment, growth and professional mobility
issues - on the debate on the future of
services of general interest - on intensifying
the housing dimension of the National Actions
Plans for Social Inclusion and within the
definition of common indicators - on the reform
of the structural funds 2007 with regard to the
urban dimension - on access to European funding
by housing operators.   For the members of the
European Housing Forum Michael Newey, President
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Interactions in 2004 main issues
EU POLICIES AND LAW
Community Law
EU policies

• State Aid regime
• Services of general interest
• Transparency directive
• VAT on housing
• Court of Justice (Altmark)

• Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Employment growth policy
• Cohesion policy 2007
• Strategy for social inclusion
• Sustainable urban development
• Energy
• Immigration
• Consumer protection
• Standardisation

European Funding

• Urban regeneration
• Energy
• NTIC
• Inclusion
• Anti-discrimination
• Structural Funds
• European Programmes
• European Investiment Bank

Objectives
Instruments
NATIONAL HOUSING POLICIES
Operators
Community Law

• Concessions in services
• PPP
• Exclusive and special rights
• Public procurement
• Transparency directive
• Competition rules

EU POLICIES AND LAW
EU POLICIES AND LAW
on the EU agenda in 2004
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Members
Established following the European Parliament
resolution on the social aspects of housing (in
May 1997), the European Housing Forum is a place
of exchange and debate amongst the various actors
in housing represented within the European Union
(local governments, social landlords, private
developers, real estate professionals, housing
associations and associations of homelessness,
tenants, researchers).   The Forums objectives
are to exchange information amongst its members,
to identify themes, to apply common initiatives
to the European institutions and to promote the
importance of the housing sector.   The Forum
brings together the most representative European
organisations in the field of housing
EUROCITIES Hans Verdonk Square de Meeûs
18 B-1050 Brussels Phone [phone]
88 h.verdonk_at_eurocities.be www.eurocities.org FE
ANTSA Freek Spinnewijn 194 chaussée de
louvain B-1210 Brussels Phone 322
538.66.69 freek.spinnewijn_at_feantsa.org www.feantsa
.org International Union of Tenants Magnus
Hammar PO Box 7514 SE-103 92 Stockholm Phone
46 8791 02 24 25 magnus.hammar_at_hyresgastforeninge
n.se / info_at_iut.nu www.iut.nu Réseau Habitat
et Francophonie Michel Lachambre 14, rue Lord
Byron F-75008 Paris Phone [phone]
83 reseau.habitat.francophonie_at_union-habitat.org
www.reseauhabitatetfrancophonie.com UEPC Laurent
WiIIe rue de la Violette 43 B-1000 Brussels
Phone [phone] Info_at_uepc.org www.uepc.org

CECODHAS Claire Roumet 59b rue Guillaume
Tell B-1060 Brussels Phone [phone]
21 claire.roumet_at_cecodhas.org www.cecodhas.org C
OFACE Luc Laurent Rue de Brabant 1 B-6000
Charleroi Phone [phone] fonds.log.wal_at_inf
onie.be ENHR Bengt Turner Uppsala
UniversityBox 785 SE-801 29 Gävle, Sweden Phone
46 26 420 65 00 bengt.turner_at_ibf.uu.se www.enhr
.ibf.uu.se European Observatory for Social
Housing Laurent Ghekiere Avenue Boileau 16 B-1040
Brussels Phone [phone] laurent.ghekiere_at_u
nion-habitat.org www.cecodhas-observatory.com RI
CS Europe Jill Craig Avenue de Cortenbergh,
52 B-1000 Brussels Phone 322 733
1019 jcraig_at_rics.org www.rics.org