CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
11/09 - 17/09
Monday 11 September
Tallinn. Council of the EU. Meeting of ministers with responsibility for Development. – EU commitment to the more developed countries and the middle-income countries. – Digital at the service of development: using digital tools to support sustainable development in developing countries (DCs), particularly in Africa. – Improving links between humanitarian aid and development aid to increase the resilience of DCs. – State of progress in negotiations on the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD)
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (to 14/09). *Debates: - EU’s accession to the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Revault d’Allonnes Bonnefoy – LIBE, Corazza Bildt – FEMM – vote on 12/09). – ETS system: maintaining restrictions for aviation activities and preparing a global mechanism for 2021 (Girling – ENVI – vote on 13/09). – Taking account of emissions in land use (Lins – ENVI – Presentation of reports: - Transparency and integrity in the institutions (Giegold – AFCO – vote on 14/09). - A space strategy for the EU (Krehl – ITRE – vote on 12/09). – Repercussions of the EU’s trade policies on global value chains (Arena – INTA – vote on 12/09). – Ongoing university training (Zver – CULT – vote on 12/09).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 14/09). – ENVI: hearing of Commissioner Andriukaitis on the crisis of eggs treated with Fipronil. – AFCO: debate on the proposal of two rapporteurs on a new distribution of seats in Parliament for the legislative period 2019-2024. – CONT: vote on the opinion on the governance of Eurojust and the agency’s relations with the new European Public Prosecutor’s Office
Tuesday 12 September
Strasbourg. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. Preparations for the State of the Union speech (Juncker).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: – Promoting Internet connectivity at local level (Zorrinho – ITRE – and vote). – Measures to guarantee the security of gas supply (Buzek – ITRE – and vote). *Statement by President Tajani. *Votes: - Request to lift immunity of M-C. Boutonnet (Hautala – JURI). Appointment of S. Busuttil to the Article 255 committee. – Names of the members of the special committee on terrorism. – EU/Iceland agreement on geographical indications of agricultural products (Borrelli – INTA). – EU/Iceland agreement on granting additional agricultural trade preferences (Borrelli – INTA). – Application of the directive on mediation (Chrysononos – JURI). - Franchising in retail trade (de Jong – IMCO). - Cancellation of obsolete regulations on domestic waterways and road transport (Delli – TRAN). – Resolution on whale hunting in Norway and texts on which the debate is closed. *Debates: - Presentation by the Council of its position on the general EU budget 2018. – Implementation of the common position on exports of armaments (Valero – AFET). – Situation in North Korea. – Recent developments in the field of migration. – EU/Turkey relations. – Situation in Venezuela. – EU/Latin America political relations (Lopez – AFET – vote on 13/09). *Presentation of reports: - EU/India political relations (Dan Preda – AFET – vote on 13/09). – Corruption and human rights in third countries (Austrevicius – AFET – vote on 13/09).
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - C-589/15 P (Anagnostakis/Commission – Non-registration by the Commission of the proposed citizens’ initiative to write off government debt of countries in need). #Conclusions: - C-291/16 (Schweppes – Refusal by Schweppes to allow the import/sales in Spain of Schweppes products from the United Kingdom, where the brand is owned by Coca-Cola). - C-524/15 (Menci) and C-537/16 (Garlsson Real Estate e.a.) and joined cases C-596/16 (Di Puma) and C-597/16 (Consob – possibility of sentencing the same person to both a criminal sanction and an administrative sanction for the same act).
Wednesday 13 September
Strasbourg. European Commission. Speech by President Jean-Claude Juncker on the State of the Union.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debate: - Juncker’s State of the Union speech. *Votes: - Agreement on the common European airspace (Zile – TRAN). – Controls on acrylfentanyl (Hortefeux – LIBE). – Mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund for Italy (La Via – BUDG). – Amending budget 4/2017: aid to Italy (Geier – BUDG). – Mobilisation of the EGF – Microsoft (Sarvamaa – BUDG). – Standard model of residence permit for third-country nationals (Halla-aho – LIBE). – Objections. – Amending budget 3/2017 youth employment initiative (Geier – BUDG). – Common position on exports of armaments (Bodil Valero – AFET). *Debates: - Dieselgate. – Safety against risks of fire in buildings. – Accessibility requirements on products and services (Lekkegaard – IMCO – vote on 14/09). – Prolongation until 2020 of the European statistical programme (Gualtieri – ECON – vote on 14/09). – European venture capital and social entrepreneurship funds (Pietikäinen – ECON – vote on 14/09). Multi-annual plan for demersal stocks in the North Sea (Rodust – PECH – vote on 14/09). – Future of the programme Erasmus+ (CULT – vote on 14/09). – Trade with Chile (Rodriguez-Piñero Fernandez – 3 reports – INTA – vote on 14/09).
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - C-111/16 (Fidenato e.a. – Possibility for member states to ban certain genetically modified foodstuffs in emergency situations). - C-350/16 P (Pappalardo/Commission – Possibility for fishermen to claim damages from the Commission for having prematurely banned bluefin tuna fishing in 2008).
Thursday 14 September
Brussels. Council of the EU. ‘Justice and Home Affairs’ Council. *Home Affairs: exchange of views on the current situation and next steps for migration. – Exchange of views on the fight against terrorism. Any other business: Commission information on the EU-Canada PNR and discussion with the ministers.
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (to 14/09). *Debates: - New strategy of competences for the EU (Diabajova – EMPL and Nekov – CULT – and vote). – North Stream 2. – Violations of human rights or democracy (Cambodia, Gabon, Laos, Myanmar). *Votes
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - joined cases C-168/16 (Nogueira e.a.) and C-169/16 (Moreno Osacar – which member state’s jurisdiction is responsible for the employment contracts of air cabin crew). - C-503/16 (Delgado Mendes – Possibility of providing third-party civil liability compensation to the owner of a vehicle who was injured by his own vehicle when a pedestrian). - C-18/16 K – Possibility of putting an asylum seeker in detention to establish or verify his or her identity or nationality when there is a flight risk). #Conclusions: - C-103/16 (Porras Guisado – Possibility of making a pregnant worker redundant in the framework of a collective redundancy). - C-372/16 (Sahyouni – Possibility of recognising a foreign private divorce on the basis of the ‘Rome III’ regulation).
Friday 15 September
Tallinn. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the Eurogroup. - Greece: stock-take on Greece’s implementation of its economic adjustment programme ahead of the third re-examination of the programme. – Debate on economic resilience within the EMU ahead of future discussions of the Eurogroup on growth and employment.
Tallinn. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the ministers for the economy and finances (and 16/09). Deepening of Economic and Monetary Union (links with the financial framework of the EU: interaction between rules and institutions). – Development of the Capital Markets Union (implications of technological innovations and financial regulation for the stability of banks and capital markets). – Taxation of companies in the digital economy (updating corporate taxation and adapting it to the new digital world). – Cost-effectiveness and viability of customs systems using information technologies (reform of the governance of customs union alongside the development of a viable and cost-effective customs IT infrastructure that is up to the challenges of the digital single market).
