Brussels, 12/05/2010 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's plenary on 17 to 20 May 2010 will be characterised by questions of economic governance, the repercussions of the economic crisis and addressing this with the new EU 2020 Strategy. Several other issues will be debated, including a European Refugee Fund, the EU joining the European Convention of Human Rights, organ donation and the EP's budget.
Monday 17 May.
5.00 - 11.00pm. Debates on - Equal treatment for men and women freelancers (Astrid Lulling); - Denominations of textile products and labelling (Toine Manders), - Energy performance of buildings (Silvia-Adriana Ticau).
Short presentations of following reports: - Changes in the award of public contracts (Heide Rühle); - Coherence of EU development and public 'development aid +' policies (Franziska Keller); - Penalties for serious infringement of social and welfare road transport rules (Hella Ranner).
Tuesday 18 May.
9.00 - 11.50am. Joint debate on the EP's budget: -Amending Budget 01/2010: Section I - Parliament (Vladimír Maòka): - Expected income and expenditure for 2011 - Section I - Parliament (Helga Trüpel).
Joint debate on the European Refugee Fund and the Schengen Information System: - European Refugee Fund for 2008-2013, amending Council Decision 573/2007/EC (Rui Tavares); - Migration of Schengen Information System (SIS 1+) to a second generation system (two reports of Carlos Coelho); - Creation of a joint EU returns programme (Rui Tavares)
Debate: - Special measures in the field of agriculture for the EU's outermost regions, amending Regulation (EC) 247/2006 (Luís Paulo Alves).
12.00 - 1.00pm. Voting on reports including: - Creation of an EU Asylum Support Bureau (Jean Lambert); - Simplifying the CAP (Richard Ashworth); - Key skills in a changing world - implementing the 2010 education and training work programme (Maria Badia i Cutchet) - An EU strategy on investing in young people and youth mobility (Georgios Papanikolaou); - Macro-financial aid for the Ukraine (Vital Moreira).
3.00 - 7.00pm. Joint debate on organ donation and transplants: - Quality and safety standards for human organ transplants (Miroslav Mikolášik); - Report on the Commission report on the 2000-2015 action plan on organ donation and transplant (Andres Perello Rodriguez).
Joint debate about the EU joining the European Convention to Protect Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the International Criminal Tribunal and the Rome Statutes: - The institutional aspects of the EU's joining of European Convention to Protect Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Ramón Jáuregui Atondo); - First conference on revision of the Rome Statutes (Statements from Commission and Council of Ministers).
Commission and Council of Ministers statements on the Stockholm Action Plan.
7.00 - 8.00pm. European Commission Question Time.
9.00pm - midnight. Oral questions to Commission on subsidiarity and universality in social public services in the EU and the Icelandic volcanic ash crisis.
Commission statement on safety and accident prevention on offshore oil platforms in the EU.
Wednesday 19 May.
9: 00 - 11.50am. Joint debate on strengthened economic governance mechanisms: - Commission and Council of Ministers statements on outcome of special eurozone summit on 7 May 2010 and meeting of ECOFIN Council on 9 May 2010; - Oral questions to Council and Commission on EU 2020 sStrategy against backdrop of current economic and financial crisis.
12- 1.00pm. Votes on reports including European Fund for Refugees for 2008-2013, amending Decision 573/2007/EC (Claude Moraes); - Energy consumption indications on labelling and uniform product information and other energy-related resources (Anni Podimata); Resolution on food additives; and Resolution on EU 2020 strategy.
3.00 - 7.30pm. Joint debate on EU 2020 strategy: - Making use of synergies between funding for research and innovation in Regulation 1080/2006/EC on the European Rural Development Fund and the seventh European Framework Programme for Research and Development (Lambert van Nistelrooij); - Giving consumers and Europeans a single market (Louis Grech): - Long-term viability of public finances in the economic recovery (Liem Hoang Ngoc); - How the Coheion Policy can help meet Lisbon objectives and EU 2020 strategy (Ricardo Cortes Lastra); - Oral question to Commission on Broad Economic Policy Guidelines and Global Governance in EU 2020 strategy.
Debates on: - University-business dialogue: a new partnership for updating European universities (Pál Schmitt); - EU financial aid for decommissioning of reactors 1 to 4 at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, the 'Kozloduy Programme' (Rebecca Harms).
9.00pm - midnight. Debate: - Organisation of working time (Edit Bauer); - Oral question to the Commission on cuts in education budgets/EU 2020 strategy.
Thursday 20 May.
10.00 - 11.50am. Debates on: - Union for the Mediterranean (Vincent Peillon); - The need for an EU strategy for the Southern Caucasus (Evgeni Kirilov)
12.00 - 1.00pm. Votes.
3.00 - 4.00pm. Debates and voting at 4.00pm on human rights resolutions: - Religious freedom in Pakistan; - Arrest of journalist Ernest Vardanyan in Transnistria; and Burma. (A.B./transl.fl)