Monday 4 July
Strasbourg. European Parliament. European Parliament plenary sitting (until 07/07): *Debates: - Caps on portable non-road engine emissions (rapp. Gardini); - Social inclusion and integration of refugees (Benifei); - Tomorrow's trade strategy and human, social and environment rights - Social and environmental standards and company liability (Forenza) and New strategy for trade and investment (Beghin); - Tackling human trafficking in the EU's external relations (Lochbihler) [These reports will be voted upon on 5/07]. - Energy efficiency labelling (Tamburrano) [voting on 06/07]. *Oral question: Youth guarantee and Youth Employment Initiative (Händel).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Committee work (until 07/07). - CONT: adoption of an opinion on a definitive VAT system and tackling VAT fraud. - EMIS: hearing of the director of the European Federation for Transport and the Environment; - ITRE: discussion of report on freeing up the 470 to790 Mhz band for 5G; - LIBE: vote on the draft report on the fight against terrorism and the agreement that emerged from the interinstitutional talks on the creation of a European border guard and coastguard.
Tuesday 5 July
Strasbourg. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. - Agreement on building capacities to support security and development in non-EU countries. - EU-Canada Economic and Trade Agreement. - Revision of the directive tackling tax evasion and money-laundering. Commission decision on implementation of Privacy Shield EU/USA.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. European Parliament plenary sitting: *Debates: - Balance sheet of the Dutch Presidency (interventions by Council+Commission and debate); - Conclusions of the European Summit; - Revision of the MFF 2014-2020 (Olbrycht/Thomas); - Tax rulings (Kofod/Theurer); - European Border Guard (Pabriks); - Network security (Schwab); - Synergies Structural Funds /Horizon 2020 Agency for Maritime Security (Cramer) Agency for control of fisheries; - Secretariat of the OLAF surveillance committee (Grässle) [voting on all these reports on 6/07]. *Voting: - appointment of a member of the Court of Auditors; -EU-Peru agreement on short-stay visas (Gabriel); + above-mentioned reports
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Conclusions: combined cases C-164/15 P and C-165/15 P (Air Lingus and Ryanair/Commission - Request for cancellation of European Commission's decision ordering Ireland to recover air transport tax of 8 euros per passenger). * European General Court: #Ruling: T-518/13 (Future Enterprises/EUIPO - McDonald's International Property - Request from McDonald's to cancel the MACCOFFEE trademark registered by another company).
Wednesday 6 July
Strasbourg. European Parliament. European Parliament plenary sitting: *Debates: - Slovak Presidency programme (statement by Council+Commission); - Preparing the European Commission's 2017 programme (Commission); - The EU's global strategy for foreign policy and security (HR Mogherini); - EU's strategy for China (HR); - Annual report on human rights around the world 2015 (HR); - Seventy-first sitting of the United Nations (Kovatchev); - Protecting whistle-blowers (Council+Commission; - Revision by the Baal Committee of the standard approach for risk and credit (Commission); - Objection to health claims for food [voting on 7/07]. *Voting: - Azerbaijan's participation in EU policies (Nicolai); - Draft Amending Budget 2/2016 (Fernandes) + above-mentioned reports; - Resolutions and objections
Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER I.
Thursday 7 July
Bratislava (SLO). Council of Ministers. Meeting of Justice and Interior Ministers (also 8/07). Home affairs
Strasbourg. European Parliament =. European Parliament plenary sitting: *Debates: - Application of the UN convention of the rights of the disabled (Stevens); - Cases of human rights violations (albinos in Africa, Bahrain and Myanmar) [Voting the same day on all the above points]; - Non-tariff obstacles to food in the EU (Siekierski); Transfer of personal information to China (Commission); - Minimum wage the transport sector (Commission):
Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER II
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Ruling: C-494/15 (Tommy Hilfinger Licensing - Duty of operator of a physical market place to put an end to flouting of trademark rules by merchants). #Conclusions: C-321/15 (ArcelorMittal Rodange and Schifflange - Whether a member state can require the a company to hand back unused greenhouse gas emissions quotas); C-301/15 (Soulier and Doke - Who can authorise the reproduction of out-of-print books and how?)
Friday 8 July
Warsaw. NATO summit (also 9/07) attended by Mogherini, Tusk and Juncker. The main points covered by the sitting: - reinforcing the East flank; - NATO-Russia relations; - Afghanistan; - Commission NATO-Ukraine; - 'Stability projection' in the South; - NATO-EU Cooperation. On the fringes of the summit, Tusk and Juncker meet President Obama to discuss transatlantic relations
Bratislava (SLO). Council of Ministers. Meeting of Justice and Interior Ministers (also 8/07). Justice.