Monday 14 July
Brussels. Agriculture and Fisheries Council: - Working programme of the Presidency; - Agriculture: policy debate on organic farming; conclusions on the future of the dairy sector and planned increase of quotas; fruit and milk in schools; Commission proposal on the sales of seeds; fraud and food control; allocation of the domain names .vin and .wine. - Fisheries: communication on fishing possibilities in 2015; taking stock of partnership agreements in the fisheries sector with Morocco and Mauritania.
Brussels. European Commission. Adoption of a recommendation on online gambling.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Meetings of the committees. Hearings of four interim commissioners by various committees (Ms Reicherts, Mr Katainen, Mr Nelli Feroci and Mr Dominik); - the President of the ECB before the ECON committee for the first monetary dialogue of the new term (monetary situation, strong euro, ECB report with respect to EDF and Bank of England).
Strasbourg (to 17/07). European Parliament. Plenary session: - opening of the session and order of work.
Brussels (to 18/07). Opening of the sixth round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Tuesday 15 July
Strasbourg (two 17/07). European Parliament. Plenary session: - statement by the candidate and group round tables; - election of the president of the European Commission; - declarations: by the high representative on the situation in Ukraine; by the Commission on the TTIP; - by the Council and the Commission on the withdrawal of the maternity leave directive; - Langen report: Lithuania in the euro on 1/1/2015.
Wednesday 16 July
Brussels. European Council. Discussions on the nomination of the new president of the European Commission following the vote of the EP (see above), the future president of the European Council, of the future high representative for foreign affairs and security policy; of the future commissioners.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session: - nomination of the four interim commissioners (see above); - vote on the Langen report; - composition of the committees in terms of numbers; - declarations by: - Council and Commission on payments in the budget; Commission on youth employment; Commission and high representative on the situation in Iraq, Israel and Palestine, crime of aggression.
Thursday 17 July
Brussels. Economic and Financial Affairs Council (to be confirmed) budget session.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session: - debates on infringements of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Sudan, Egypt and Nigeria, followed by votes; - nominations for the inter-parliamentary delegations; - draft resolutions on: youth employment, the situation in Ukraine and Iraq, crime of aggression.
Luxembourg. Court of Justice of the EU: - Rulings: joined cases C-473/13 (Bero) and C-514/13 (Bouzalmate) (imprisonment of third-country nationals prior to expulsion from the country in the absence of detention centres in the region); C-600/12 (Commission/Greece- violation of environmental legislation over authorisation of the uncontrolled management of a landfill in a protected area); C-469/13 (Tahir - Italian rules on extended residency for members of the family of a third-country national who is a long-term resident); C-338/13 (Noorzia - legitimacy of the requirement for two foreign spouses to be 21 years of age when submitting a family reunification request); C-173/13 (Leone and Leone - absence in France of a legal framework allowing male officials paid holiday equivalent to that of female officials); - Opinions: C-354/13 (Kaldoft - ban on discrimination based on obesity); joined cases C-148/13 A, C-149/13 B and C-150/13 C (legitimacy of the credibility of the (homo) sexual orientation of an asylum seeker); C-364/13 (International Stern Cell Corp. - Possibility of considering unfertilised human ova to be “human embryos”, making any technique based on these ova non-patentable); joined cases C-22/13 and others (whether CDI is being used abusively in school education in Italy); joined cases C-58/13 and 59/13 (Torresi - obtaining lawyer's qualifications in another member state in order to avoid national testing); C-542/13 (M'Bodi - right to substitute protection for a third-country national suffering from a disability and risking ill-treatment in the event of return); - C-528/13 (Leger - permanent exclusion of homosexuals and bisexuals from giving blood in France); C-261/13 P (Schönberger/EP- lack of competence of the petitions committee); C-416/13 (Vital Perez - maximum age for recruitment of police officers in Spain). (Info: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/j_6/ )