Brussels, 06/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament (EP) meets in plenary session in Strasbourg from Monday 6 June to Thursday 9 June to debate and vote on the next financial framework (2014-2020), the Eurovignette (the aim being to incorporate noise and atmospheric pollution into the cost of road transport), reform of the rules on credit rating agencies, and accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Schengen area (additional measures called for in the Bulgaria-Turkey-Greece area to respond to migratory pressure). The EP will also discuss the virulent Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) outbreak in Germany and other member states. This matter will be debated with the European Commission on Tuesday. On Wednesday, MEPs will question the Council and Commission on whether they are planning to bring an end to the disproportionate use of European arrest warrants.
Monday 6 June
5.00pm-midnight: Commemoration of the 1941deportations in the Baltic States
European environmental economic accounts (report by Jo Leinen)
Interim evaluation of the seventh EU programme for research, technological development and demonstration (report by Jean-Pierre Audy)
EU-Canada trade relations (oral question to the Commission)
Selection process of a new Managing Director for the IMF and external representation of the euro
Short presentations of a number of reports (including by Wolf Klintz on credit rating agencies)
Tuesday 7 June
9.00am-11.50am: Debate on EHEC outbreak in EU member states
Charging of heavy goods vehicles (report by Saïd El Khadraoui)
Midday-1.00pm: Votes on inter alia: the request for the waiver of Agnes Hankiss's parliamentary immunity; transport applications of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (report by Silvia-Adriana Þicãu); international air agreements under the Treaty of Lisbon (report by Brian Simpson); credit rating agencies: future perspectives (report by Wolf Klinz)
3.00pm-4.00pm: Question Hour with the president of the Commission
4.00pm-6.30pm: Sudan and South Sudan (statement by Catherine Ashton, European Commission Vice-President/High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
Application of the Schengen acquis in Bulgaria and Romania (report by Carlos Coelho)
6.30pm-8.00pm: Question Time (Commission)
Wednesday 8 June
9.00am-11.50am: Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe (report by Salvador Garriga Polledo)
Midday-1.00pm: Votes on inter alia a motion for a resolution on EU-Canada trade relations
3.00pm-8.00pm: Revised Hungarian constitution: statements by the Council and Commission
European Arrest Warrant (oral questions)
EU-Russia summit: statement by Catherine Ashton
EU relations with Mongolia (oral question)
Thursday 9 June
9.00am-11.50am: Application of EIA Directive in Austria (oral question)
Misleading business directories (petitions 0045/2006, 1475/2006 and others)
Stress tests of nuclear power plants in EU and nuclear safety in EU neighbourhood countries
Midday-1.00pm: Votes (resolutions on Sudan and South Sudan, the EU-Russia summit and misleading business directories)
3.00pm-4.00pm: Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: Madagascar, Guantánamo (imminent death penalty decision) and Ukraine (the cases of Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government)
4.00pm-5.00pm: Votes on the preceding motions for resolutions. (L.C./transl.rt)