Brussels, 08/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - Alternative funds directive and preparation of EU-United States summit will be the main issues to be discussed and voted on at the plenary session on Brussels, on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 November.
Wednesday 10 November
3.00pm-midnight
Joint discussion on European Union-United States relations: Council and Commission statements on the forthcoming EU-US Summit and the Transatlantic Economic Council and on the EU-US data protection agreement
EU external strategy on Passenger Name Record (PNR): Council and Commission statements
Innovation partnerships Oral question
Strengthening the OSCE: a role for the EU (Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
Single Market Act (Commission statement)
Proposal for a directive on alternative investment fund managers (report by Jean-Paul Gauzès)
Joint debate on visas and readmission agreements: agreement between the EU and Georgia on the readmission of persons residing without authorisation and agreement between the European Union and Georgia on the facilitation of the issuance of visas; amendment of Regulation (EC) No 539/2001 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders of member states and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement (report by Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra)
Short presentations of the following reports: demographic challenge and solidarity between generations (report by Thomas Mann) and implementation of the Research Framework Programmes (report by Maria Da Graça Carvalho)
Thursday 11 November
9.00am-11.50am
Presentation of the Court of Auditors' annual report - 2009
Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 663/2009 establishing a programme to aid economic recovery by granting Community financial assistance to projects in the field of energy (report by Kathleen Van Brempt)
Crisis in the EU livestock sector (Oral question)
Midday-1.00pm: Votes (including on resolutions on the livestock crisis in the EU and Ukraine). (L.C./transl.rt)