CALENDAR / Main events of the european institutions
7-13 November 2016
Monday 7 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Eurogroup. – Banking Union: Single Surveillance Mechanism (SSM) work since April. – Single Resolution Board SRB): briefing on SRB work. – Growth and employment: discussion about monitoring of member states’ insolvency systems. – Greece: report on second assessment of aid programme and a report on the EU’s technical assistance. – Cyprus and Spain: reports of the first post-programme surveillance mission in Cyprus and the sixth post-programme surveillance mission in Spain. – Briefing by European Commission and ECB on recent changes to eurozone inflation.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee work (until 11/11). – LIBE: public hearing on reform of the EU’s Blue Card. – EMPL: public hearing on health problems connected with new generation jobs.
Tuesday 8 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Economic and Monetary Affairs Council. – Presentation by the Commission and debate about new company tax proposals. – Taxation: conclusions document endorsing criteria and processes for establishing a list of uncooperative third countries and territories. – Report on application of regulation on retail investment product packages and insurance-based packages. – Point A: updating budget governance rules (presentation by the member states of their budget plans in the first fortnight of October each year); changes to VAT rules; guidelines on directive giving tax authorities access to information held by authorities fighting money-laundering; conclusions document on dangers to public health of over-relaxed healthcare policies. – Miscellaneous: information about new legislative proposals on financial services within Banking Union; progress in talks with Norway about administrative cooperation and fighting fraud; Court of Auditors’ report on 2015 budget.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee work. – EMIS: hearings of various managers of DG Industry and Climate. – PANA: debate with Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova on Commission’s role in strengthening EU legislation against money-laundering. – ENVI: debate with Employment, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Commissioner Jyrki Katainen about application of Circular Economy Action Plan over past six months. – FEMM: debate on high-quality research and innovation and gender equality. – AGRI: workshop on future of CAP; voting on report on tools to reduce price volatility on the markets. – CULT: public hearing on role of universities in developing entrepreneurship and innovation. – AFCO: EYE2016 participants describe the initiative’s ideas. – LIBE: debate about recommendations on terrorism-prevention agreement with the USA.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Rulings: - C-554/14 (Ognyanov – whether a prison sentence can be reduced for a detainee sent from one member state to another for the purpose of work carried out in prison in the first country); - C-41/15 (Dowling et al. – whether a bank’s capital can be increased without the general assembly’s agreement during periods of severe disruption to the economy).
Wednesday 9 November
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. Policy debate on European semester package. – Communication on boosting the EU’s trade defence instruments (deadline for measures in the protocol for China joining the WTO and draft amendment to EU anti-dumping legislation). – Seventh report on relocation and resettlement. – Amendment to 2010 framework agreement on Commission-European Parliament relations – Enlargement package. – Extension of application of regulation on investment products (PRIIPs).
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Committees: COREPER I and II an PSC.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee work. – TRAN: discussion with Vice-President Jyrki Katainen about EFSI investment in transport sector. – PECH: hearing on protected maritime zones for conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity. – IMCO: EYE2016 participants describe the initiative’s ideas. – INTA: debate with Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrôm and heads of international organisations and bodies about future of EU’s trade policy.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Rulings: C-42/15 (Home Credit Slovakia – whether it is lawful to punish lenders that forget key information in a consumer credit contract by removing the right to levy interest and charges). #Conclusions: - C-618/15 (Competition - competence of a member state’s justice system for ruling on unlawful sales carried out on Amazon sites abroad); - C-536/15 (Tele2 NL – whether companies that issue telephone numbers can provide telephone directory suppliers with personal information about their subscribers without the latter’s express consent)
Thursday 10 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Committees: COREPER II
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee work. – ITRE: public hearing of experts on new EU space strategy. – TRAN: voting on updating of air safety rules in line with increased traffic. – INTA: debate on CETA.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Rulings: - C-504/14 (Commission/Greece – non-protection by Greece of the Caretta marine tortoise in the Bay of Kyparissia); - C-449/14 P (Distribuidora de Televisión Digital/Commission – legality of financing system for Spanish public television channel RTVE); - C-30/15 P (Simba Toys/EUIPO – registering the Rubik’s cube as an EU trademark); - C-174/15 (Vereniging Openbare Bibliotheken – whether lending an ebook is legally comparable with lending a paper book). #Conclusions: C-568/15 (Zentrale zur Bekämpfung unlauteren Wettbewerbs Frankfurt am Main – Can the cost of a call to an after-sales service be higher than the cost of a normal call?)
Friday11 November
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Foreign Affairs Council. Trade: - Updating trade defence instruments. – Discussion about TTIP. – WTO multilateral negotiations. – Signature agreement for Ecuador to join EU-Colombia-Peru free trade agreement.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee work
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Committees: COREPER I and PSC.
