CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
24/07 - 30/07
Monday 24 July
Tallinn. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of ministers with responsibility for competitiveness (and 25/07). *Research: - Mid-term review of Horizon 2020 and future of research and financing of innovation in the EU: impact of the societal value of research and drafting of a simplified, coherent funding programme. Brussels. Council of the EU. EU-Egypt Association Council (and 25/07).
Wednesday 26 July
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – 9th progress report on the Security Union (Timmermans). – 14th relocation and resettlement report (Timmermans).
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper II.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Opinion: 1/15 (EU-Canada PNR agreement – whether or not is possible to conclude the agreement as it stands between the EU and Canada on passenger name record data transfers). #Rulings: - C-599/14P (Council v LTTE) and C-79/15P (Council v Hamas – Appeal against the General Court ruling which, on the grounds of procedural irregularity, annulled the continued inclusion of Hamas on the European list of terrorist organisations. – C646/16 (Jafari) and C-490/16 (A.S. - Is Croatia responsible for handling requests for international protection from persons who crossed its border en masse in the migration crisis of 2015=2016?). #Opinions: C-643/15 (Slovakia v Council) and C-647/15 (Hungary v Council) – request for annulment of the relocation of 120,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece in other member states). – C-230/16 (Coty Germany – is a supplier of luxury goods able to prevent its authorised retailers from putting its products on sale on sites such as Amazon and eBay?). – C-358/16 (UBS and Alain Hondequin, Hozem and others – In the Luxalpha strand of the Madoff affair, could the Luxembourg financial sector supervision authority argue professional secrecy to refuse access to documents in its possession?). – C-518/15 (Matzak – Is it possible to apply EU working time rules to voluntary firefighters and is it possible to consider their time on stand-by at home as working time?).
