The three Permanent Commissions of the Youth Forum of the European Communities (YFEC) study themes specified by the General Assembly and are composed of representatives from member organisations, consultative members or those having observer status. The composition is reviewed every two years. They are the venues for drawing up the positions of the Youth Forum on questions affecting young people either directly or indirectly, in relation to the existence of the European Communities and their policy.
The series hereafter comprises the documents and working papers produced for the meetings of the General Assembly and its minutes.
The PC no. 1 "Youth organisations and the political evolution of the EC" takes up the policy of the EC institutions, the intergovernmental EC work and the work of a single member state not only concerning youth, but also interesting the youth. PC no. 2 "Social Situation of Young Workers in the EC" deals with the struggle against youth employment, strategies of access to employment, the right of young people within the firm and improvement of young worker's life conditions. PC no. 3 "Youth Organisations and the Educative and Cultural Situation in the European Communities" deals with the schooling of young people, their work and leisure patterns and with the technological change.
During the General Assembly from 1983 a large majority decided that the PCs should be replaced by working groups and open meetings with a specific topic and objective. In 1993 the Permanent Commissions met again.