Monday 5 October
Luxembourg. Council of Ministers. Employment and Social Affairs Council: - improvements to taking social issues into account in the framework of the European Semester, on the basis of the report by the 'five presidents'; - social protection priorities for 2016 on the basis of the report by the Social Protection Committee; - taking stock of the adequacy of pension schemes, income support and health and safety in the workplace; - examination of the recommendations for the long-term unemployed; - state of progress with the directive on women on company boards of directors.
Luxembourg. Council of Ministers. Informal meeting of the employment and social affairs ministers of the eurozone: social dimension in eurozone governance (functioning of the European Semester).
Luxembourg. Council of Ministers. Meeting of the Eurogroup: - implementation of the new financial assistance programme for Greece; - reform of the services sector in the eurozone; - preparations for the annual budgetary monitoring procedure for the eurozone (examination of the draft national budgets).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (to 08/10): debate with Presidents Tusk and Juncker on the recent informal summit on the refugee crisis (6/10); - debate with the High Representative on the situation in Libya, the war in Syria and elections in Turkey (6-7/10); - debate with Commissioner Bienkowska on the Volkswagen scandal (oral question of the committees - IMCO, ENVI, ITRE, TRAN -6/10); - debate with President Hollande and Chancellor Merkel on the refugee crisis, Syria, etc. and speech by King Felipe IV of Spain (7/10); - adoption of an own-initiative report on extending the protection of the geographical indications to local and craft products (report: V. Rozière (5-6/10); - debate and vote on the draft regulation on the resolution of small claims and recovery of small debts (report: .L. Geringer de Oedenberg - 6-7/10); - debate and vote on the updated rules on payment services (report: A. Tajani - 7-8/10). - Activities of the committees: - AGRI: debate with Commissioner Hogan on the EU's forestry strategy (05/10).
Tuesday 6 October
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Council of Ministers. Economy/Finance Council: - agreement on proposed directive on tax rulings; - examination of the action plan on the capital markets union; - lessons learned from the European Semester 2015; - examination of the work on the flexibility in the application of the Stability and Growth Pact; - state of progress with the implementation of banking union; - next steps from G20 and preparations for the next meeting.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - C-362/14 (Schrems - legality of suspending the transfer of data of European Facebook subscribers to the United States); - C-650/13 (Thierry Delvigne/Commune of Lesparre Médoc and Prefect of la Gironde - legality of France maintaining a permanent ban on voting in the EP elections for some of its nationals). #Conclusions: - C-308/14 (Commission/United Kingdom - legality of the British measure reserving the benefit of family allowances and child tax credit only for individuals holding residence permits); - C-443/14 and C-444/14 (Alo and Osso - legality of the obligation upon those in receipt of subsidiary protection to reside in a particular city or region of the host country)
Wednesday 7 October
Luxembourg. Council of Ministers. Informal meeting of the transport ministers: - the bicycle as a means of transport.
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Coreper I and II.
Luxembourg. Court of Justice of the EU. General Court of the EU. #Judgments: T-79/13 (Accorinti e.a./ECB - compensation for owners of Greek debt securities following the restructuring measures undertaken by the ECB in 2012)
Thursday 8 October
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Transport Council: - fourth railway package (liberalisation of rail passenger transport and governance of the railway infrastructure); - and railway safety; - priorities and objectives of transport policy on the basis of the 2011 White Paper; - new possibilities opened up to the sector by the EFSI.
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Justice/Home Affairs Council (and 09/10). Home Affairs (08/10) - management of the external borders and the returns policy (establishing a list of safe countries); - developments on the relocation of 40,000 people from Italy and Greece; - developments on the draft regulation on relocation in the event of crisis; - the fight against terrorism (state of play with anti-terrorist measures, stepping up the fight against the trafficking in weapons, railway security); - state of progress with work on the European PNR. - Work of the joint committee: - stock-take on work to revise the EU visa code and to create a roaming visa; - examination of the Commission's action plan on returns and recommendation on a 'returns handbook' for the use of the member states.
Friday 9 October
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Justice/Home Affairs Council. *Justice: - general orientation on the directive on the protection of personal data; - orientation on the creation of a European Public prosecutor's office; - state of negotiations on the EU's accession to the ECHR; - debate on the migration crisis (legal cooperation and the fight against xenophobia)
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Coreper I