Brussels, 01/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - Hungarian and Polish Presidencies, multi-annual financial framework, financial regulations, PNR and Schengen are the main points of the agenda of the plenary session of the European Parliament to be held in Strasbourg from Monday 4 to Thursday 7 July, the last before the summer break.
Monday 4 July - 5.00pm to midnight. Session resumes and order of work. Over-the-counter derivative products, central counterparties and central repositories (Langen report). Amendments to Directives 98/78/EC, 2002/87/EC and 2006/48/EC regarding supplementary supervision of the financial entities of financial conglomerates (Stolojan report). Shortselling and various aspects of credit swaps (Canfin report). Amendment s to Directive 97/9/EC of the European Parliament and Council on investor compensation schemes (Schmidt report). IT agency for the area of freedom, security and justice (Coelho report). Progress report on negotiations for agreements on PNR with the United States, Australia and Canada (oral question). One-minute speeches. Short presentations of the following reports: - universal service and emergency telephone number 112 (Sylvana Rapti report); - a more effective and fairer retail trade market (Corazza Bildt report) - the future of EU budgetary support for the developing countries (Goerens report); - priorities in the energy infrastructure for 2020 and beyond (Sosa Wagner report); - social services of general interest (De Rossa report); - report by Filip Kaczmarek on increasing the impact of the EU development policy.
Tuesday 5 July - 9.00 am- 11.50am. Examination of the Hungarian Presidency: declarations of the Council and the Commission. Possibility for the member states to restrict or ban the growth of GM crops on their territory (Lepage report). Midday-1.00pm. Votes. Election of two vice-president of the European Parliament. Requests for consultation of the European Economic and Social Committee (rights of airline passengers, EU-Chile relations). Matera report on the mobilisation of the European globalisation adjustment fund (Denmark). Mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund of the EU - Floods 2010 in Slovenia, Croatia and Czech Republic (Böge report). Draft rectifying budget no. 2/2011: floods of September 2010 in Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic (Jêdrzejewska report). Amendments to Decision 2004/162/EC regarding products entitled to an exemption or reduction of dock dues (Hoarau report). Draft rectifying budget no. 3/2011: surplus of budgetary year 2010 (Jêdrzejewska report). Reinforcing consumer protection legislation (Repo report). Debate on the revision of the Hungarian Constitution. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and assessment of risks of carbon leakage (Eickhout report). Fifth report on the cohesion of the European Commission and the strategy for the cohesion policy post-2013 (Pieper report). Texts on which the debate is closed. 3.00pm-6.30pm. Declaration of the president of the Commission on the multi-annual financial framework. Consumer information on foodstuffs (recommendation for second reading by Renate Sommer). EU legislation on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) and related controls on animal feed and foodstuffs - implementation and prospects (Roth-Behrendt report). Commission question time. 9.00pm - midnight. Cross-border exchange of information on road safety offences (Ayala Sender report). Aviation safety: - aviation safety, particularly safety scanners; - declaration of the Commission on a ban on liquids in hand baggage. Women and corporate management (Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou report).
Wednesday 6 July - 9.00am -Midday. Programme of activities of the Polish Presidency: declarations of the Commission and Council. Financial, economic and social crisis: recommendations on measures and initiatives to be taken (Pervenche Berès report). 12.30 pm-1.30pm. Votes. Proposal on the list of travel documents allowing travellers to cross external borders and which may bear a visa, and on the creation of a mechanism to establish this list (Fajon report). Broadband in Europe: investing in digital-borne growth (Tzavela report). A global approach to the protection of personal data in the EU (Voss report). Multi-annual financial framework (Böge report). Preparation of working programme of the Commission for 2012. Texts on which the debate is closed. 3 .00pm-10 00pm. Declaration by Catherine Ashton on the situation in the Arab world and North Africa, Syria and Yemen. The external policies of the EU in favour of democratisation (De Keyser report). Declarations by Catherine Ashton on: - the situation in the High Karabakh; - Russia's preparation for elections (Duma) in December. Declaration of the Commission on changes to be made to Schengen. Declaration of Catherine Ashton on the Parliament's approach to the application of Articles 9 and 10 of protocol 1 to the Treaty of Lisbon on parliamentary cooperation in the field of CFSP/EDSP.
Thursday 7 July - 9 00am- 11.50 am. Declaration of the Commission on the mechanism for the distribution of food to people in situations of poverty in the EU. Changes to the act to elect Members of the European Parliament (Duff report). Progress in the fight against mines (short presentation of the Van Orden report). Midday-1.00pm. Votes. European Year of Active Ageing (2012) (Kastler report). Texts on which the debate is closed. Debates on cases of infringement of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (mass rapes in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, minorities attacked in Indonesia, death sentence in India against Davinder Pal Singh). 4 .00pm-5.00pm. Adoption of resolutions on cases of infringements of human rights, democracy and the rule of law.