CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
From Monday 5 to Sunday 11 December
Monday 5 December
Brussels. Council of Ministers. 'Transport, Telecommunications and Energy' Council. Energy: - Security of gas supply (guideline debate). - Green energy package: presentation of the package by the Commission; - External dimension of the energy policy (debate on progress made by the Twenty-Eight in aligning their positions). – Progress in work on the information exchange mechanism on inter-governmental agreements and common instruments with third countries in the field of energy. Energy labelling of low-energy ducts (stock take of work on draft regulation on a revised framework).
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Eurogroup. – Examination of the draft budgets for 2017 of 18 countries (excluding Greece): verifying compliance with the Stability Pact. - Third bailout plan of the ESM for Greece (debt relief measures for Greece)
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 08/12). – TRAN: vote on the recommendation at second reading on the 'market pillar' of the fourth railway package (passenger transport); seminar with the press on the subject (06-07/12). – LIBE: debate with Parliament president, Martin Schulz, the proposed Charter of Digital Fundamental Rights; vote on the results of the inter-institutional negotiations on the proposed directive on the fight against terrorism. – AFCO: public hearing on the constitutional implications of referendums on European issues. – ECON: public hearing with the president of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) on the actions of the Resolution Fund and the preparation of the resolution plans in Banking Union. -EMIS: meeting with representatives of the Parliaments of Germany, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom on the investigations into vehicle emissions. – CULT: vote on the report on the implementation of Erasmus+ and on the non-legislative report on an integrated approach to sports policy.
Tuesday 6 December
Brussels. Council of Ministers. 'Economic and Financial Affairs' Council. – Adoption of the negotiating position on the modification of the regulation concerning the European Fund for Strategic Investments (extension, increasing the EU guarantee and the EIB contribution); - Conclusion on actions aiming to remove obstacles to investment in the framework of the third pillar of the investment plan for Europe; - Financial transactions tax: state of negotiations between the 10 countries participating in the enhanced cooperation. – Conclusions on the Commission's proposal on the overall reform of corporate taxation. – Fight against tax evasion: general orientation on the proposed modification of the directive (dealing with mismatch mechanisms). – Reinforcing Banking Union: progress in the work on creating a European deposit insurance scheme and presentation by the Commission of actions to reduce risks in the banking sector. – European Semester: Annual growth review 2017 and examination of the report on the early warning mechanism for macro-economic imbalances.
Wednesday 7 December
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Guideline debate on monitoring the health check of the legislation on the protection of nature; - Youth Initiative, including the European solidarity corps, the continuation of the European youth guarantee, the mobility of apprentices and related initiatives in the field of education; - security agenda of the EU: action plan for security of travel documents; revision of the SIS (application of the legislation and management of the borders); - Recommendation on the conditions to resume transfers from Dublin to Greece; - fourth progress report on the implementation of the agreement with Turkey; - eighth report on relocation and resettlement.
Brussels. European Commission. Presentation of the Youth Initiative.
Brussels. Council of Ministers. Coreper I and II.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. – LIBE: negotiations with the Council and, possibly, vote in committee (on 08/12) on the rules to reinforce the European visa suspension mechanism. – PANA: hearing of Commissioner Moscovici on progress in the fight against tax evasion.
Thursday 8 December
Brussels. Council of Ministers. 'Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumers' Council. *Employment and social policy: - Examination of the directives on worker secondment and accessibility. - Debate on a European pillar of social rights. – Exchange of views on the European Semester 2017. – Adoption of conclusions on the youth guarantee and youth employment initiative, speeding up the integration of the Roma, women and poverty. – General orientation on the Eurofound, EU-OSHA and Cedefop regulations. *Health: - Exchange of views on the 'health' plank of the 2017 growth reviews. – European reference networks (pooling skills of specialists): presentation.
Brussels. Council of Ministers. 'Justice and Home Affairs' Council (and 09/12). *Justice: state of work on the directive to tackle fraud against the financial interests of the EU and the draft regulation on the European Public Prosecutor's office. – Strategy for the digital single market: discussion on the draft directive on various contracts for the provision of digital content (video, online, apps and cloud services).
Brussels. European Commission. Adoption of the monthly package of infringements.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. – ENVI: vote on bringing the European emissions quota system into line with the objectives of the Paris Climate. - AFCO: vote on proposals to improve the democratic responsibility and transparency of the European institutions.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Conclusions: C-527/15 (Stichting Brein – does selling a multimedia reader allowing protected works from streaming sites operated without the authorisation of the authors to be viewed on a television screen breach copyright law?).
Friday 9 December
Brussels. Council of Ministers. 'Justice and Home Affairs' Council. *Home Affairs: - European asylum system: discussion on the reform of the asylum system; state of the work on the reform of the asylum system; state of the work on the reform of the Dublin regulation and the institution of the European asylum agency; adoption of a negotiation mandate with Parliament on the draft Eurodac regulation (database of digital fingerprints of asylum seekers). – Fight against terrorism: presentation of political options to tackle foreign terrorists and potential terrorists returning from the Middle East. – Franco-German proposal for cooperation between the law enforcement services and telecommunications operators to tackle terrorism (cutting the time for data to be made available).
