03/07 - 09/07

Monday 3 July

• Strasbourg (France). European Parliament. Plenary session (to 06/07). *Debates: - Micro-financial assistance to Moldova (Moisä – INTA); - European standards (Mizzi – IMCO); - Life-cycle of products (Durand – IMCO); - Violations of human rights in the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity (Preda – AFET); - Private security companies (Vautmans – AFET); - Working conditions and precarious employment (Sylikiotis – EMPL); - Franchising in retail trade (de Jong – IMCO); - Pan-European covered bonds framework (Lucke – ECON); - The role of tourism in diversifying the fisheries sector (Briano – PECH). – AFET-DEVE-BUDG: vote on the agreement on creating a European Sustainable Development Fund. – DEVE: vote on the opinion on the revision of the peace and stability instrument.
• Strasbourg (France). European Parliament. Activities of the committees (TO06/07). – PANA: hearing of Commissioner Jourova, who is responsible for the fight against money laundering, on the fourth and fifth anti-money laundering directives in particular. 

Tuesday 4 July                                                                           

• Strasbourg (France). European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Summing up the Maltese Presidency of the Council (Council and Commission); - Notification by certain companies and their subsidiaries of information regarding taxes on profits (country-by-country reporting) (Bayet – ECON; Regner – JURI); - Preparations for the Commission’s programme of work for 2018 (Commission); - EU defence plan and the future of Europe (topical debate); - Reflection document on the future of the EU finances up to 2025 (Commission); - 2018 budget: trialogue mandate (Muresan – BUDG); - Election of Saudi Arabia to UN’s women’s rights commission (HR Mogherini); - Recommendations to the Council on the 72nd session of the UN Assembly (Kovatchev – AFET); - EU-Cuba political dialogue and cooperation agreement (Valenciano – AFET); - Criminal sanctions against fraud harming the financial interests of the EU (Grässle – CONT; Aguilar – LIBE); - EU strategy for international cultural relations (Brok – AFET; Costa – CULT). *Votes: - Extension of the mandate of the committee of investigation into money laundering and tax evasion. - Appointment of Mariya Gabriel to the European Commission; - Measures in favour of Ukraine (Walesa – INTA); - Draft amending budget no. 2 2017 (Geier – BUDG); - Mobilisation of GAF Spain (Vana – BUDG); - EU/Kosovo framework agreement (Lunacek – AFET). Texts on which the debate is closed and reports discussed on 03/07, Bayet-Regner report (see above).
• Strasbourg (France). European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Preparations for the G20 Summit (see below).
• Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Conclusions: - C-320/16 (Uber France – possibility for States to criminally sanction illegal exercise of UberPop transport activity without giving the Commission advance notice of the law bill).

Wednesday 5 July

• Strasbourg (France). European Parliament. Plenary session. *Priority debates: - Conclusions of the European Council of 22-23/06 (Council and Commission); - Presentation of the programme of the Estonian Presidency (Council and Commission). *Votes: - Amendment of the Montreal agreement on substances harmful to the ozone layer (Konecna – ENVI); - Agreement on long-distance cross-border pollution (Valean – ENVI); - European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems/Eurojust agreement (Moraes – LIBE); - Legal framework on customs infringements and sanctions (Kallas – IMCO); - Reemergence of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis C in Europe; - Preparations for the Commission’s 2018 working programme; - Grässle/Aguilar, Valenciano, Brok, Muresan reports debated the day before (see above). *Debates: - 2016 report on Turkey (Piri – AFET); - European Sustainable Development Fund (ESDF), guarantee and ESDF guarantee fund (Kukan – AFET; - Frunzulica – DEVE; Gardiazabal Rubial – BUDG); - Action in favour of sustainability (Dance – ENVI); - Single seat for European Parliament; - Cohesion and development in the extremely remote regions (Omarjee - REGI); - Forest fires in Portugal and Spain; - Dual taxation dispute settlement (Theurer – ECON); - CJEU judgment on EU/Singapore agreement (INTA).
• Brussels. Council of the EU and European Council. Coreper I.
• Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgements: - C-190/16 (Fries – The validity of the age limit of 65 provided for in the EU for commercial aviation pilots). - *General Court of the EU: #Interim hearings: joined cases T-849/16 R, T883/16 R and T-130/17 R (Pnig Supply & Trading, Poland, Poksie Gornictzo Naftowe i Gazownictwo/Commission - Provisional suspension of the Commission decision of 28/10/2016 on derogation conditions for OPAL gas pipeline) 

Thursday 6 July

• Tallinn (Estonia). Council of the EU. Informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (and 07/07). – Migration: application of the principles of accountability and solidarity; returns policies and measures to accelerate returns of illegal migrants. – Ukraine: cooperation with Ukraine in the field of internal security and coordination between the member states. – Databases: interoperability of European and national databases (defence of the borders, migrants, terrorism, crime). - Retaining data to fight crime. – Simplification of formalities and improvement of legal security for online and distance sales. – Action plan on online justice (mobility of the citizens, controls on migration, fighting terrorism). – Mutual recognition and acceleration of the execution of decisions to freeze and confiscate assets (fighting organised crime and the financing of terrorism). – On the sidelines of the meeting: informal meeting of the EU/Eastern Partnership justice and home affairs ministers.
• Brussels. Council of the EU. EU/Japan summit.
• Brussels. Council of the EU and European Council. Coreper II.
• Strasbourg (France). European Parliament. Plenary session. – Treaty of Marrakech: use and exchange of works (Andersson – JURI); - cases of human rights violations: Chinese Nobel Prize winners, Eritrea, Burundi). *Votes: - Mandate on a temporary committee on terrorism: - Resolutions on cases of human rights violations; - Piri, Kukan/Frunzulica/Gardiazabal Rubial, Andersson, Theurer, Dance and Omarjee reports debated the day before (see above)
• Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgements: - C-180/16 P (Toshiba/Commission – application for cancellation of the fine of €61.44 million to Toshiba for its participation in a cartel in the gas-isolated switchgear sector); - C290/16 (Air Berlin – possibility of legal checks on the abusive nature of cancellation fees charged by airlines).

Friday 7 July

• Hamburg (Germany). International meetings. G20 summit under German presidency (and 08/07) on the theme “Shaping an interconnected world”. – Economy. – Finance. – Climate. – Development. – Migration. – Fight against terrorism.