Brussels, 08/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - MEPs, meeting in plenary session in Strasbourg from Monday 12 to Thursday 15 March, will give their response to the European Council and will debate gender equality and EU enlargement. They will also discuss the Dutch discriminatory website. On Wednesday, the Parliament will vote on setting up a special committee to investigate misappropriation of public funds by organised criminal groups.
Monday 12 March
5.00pm-11.00pm
Statement by the president of Parliament on lessons learned one year on from the Fukushima disaster
Joint debate on gender equality: reports by Sophie in 't Veld and Sirpa Pietikäinen
Jurisdiction, applicable law, recognition and enforcement of decisions and authentic instruments in matters of succession and the creation of a European certificate of succession (report by Kurt Lechner)
Oral question on judicial training
Statute for a European cooperative society with regard to the involvement of employees (report by Luigi Berlinguer)
Tuesday 13 March
9.00am-12.20pm
European Council and Commission statements on the European Council meeting (1-2 March 2012)
Oral question on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (crisis derogation)
12.30pm-2.00pm
Votes
3.00pm-4.00pm
Council and Commission statements on discriminatory internet sites
4.00pm-5.30pm
Question Time (Commission) on the role of the EU in stimulating the competitiveness of the economies of the 27 member states
5.30pm-8.00pm
General guidelines for the 2013 Commission budget (report by Giovanni La Via)
International Cocoa Agreement 2010 (report by Vital Moreira)
Commission statement on child labour in cocoa sector
Council and Commission statements on addressing the EU diabetes epidemic
9.00pm-11.00pm
European Fisheries Fund (increasing joint funding for countries in difficulty) (report by João Ferreira)
Autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef (report by Godelieve Quisthoud-Trowohl)
Wednesday 14 March
9.00am-11.50am
Enlargement Debate: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Midday-2.00pm
Votes
3.00pm-9.00pm
Statements by Catherine Ashton on: the outcome of the presidential elections in Russia; Kazakhstan; the situation in Nigeria; and by the Commission on maritime piracy
Thursday 15 March
9.00am-11.50am
Debate on a competitive low carbon economy by 2050
Oral question on the 6th World Water Forum
Midday-2.00pm
Votes
3.00pm-4.00pm
Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law: human trafficking in Sinai; Palestine (raids by Israeli forces on Palestinian TV stations); Bahrain. (LC/transl.rt)