CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
27/11 - 03/12
Monday 27 November
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 31/08). - EMPL-ECON: joint economic dialogue on the annual growth review and report on the early warning mechanism, to be attended by Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner Moscovici. – ENVI: structured dialogue with Vice-President Šefčovič on the Commission’s working programme and the priorities for 2018. CONT: examination of the execution of the Commission’s 2016 budget with Commissioner Thyssen, Commissioner Hogan and members of the Court of Auditors. – ITRE: Public hearing on the cyber-security package and the "Cybersecurity Act"
Tuesday 28 November
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. – LIBE: hearing on the theme “Agreements and cooperation with third countries on the management of migration flows and returns”. – PANA: hearing on the theme “Money laundering: the case of the NLB financial group and Azerbaijan laundromat revelations”. Public hearing and discussion with investigative journalists on Paradise Papers case.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgements: C-514/16 (Rodrigues de Andrade – Whether or not compulsory public liability insurance covers damage caused to a person by a stationary vehicle used in its normal function of producing motive power for the purposes of carrying out work.
Wednesday 29 November
Abidjan (Ivory Coast). European Council and Council of the EU. Fifth EU/African Union summit (and 30/11). – Reinforcing EU/Africa political and economic ties and future of relationship. – Investing in youth. – Subjects discussed: - Peace and security. – Governance (democracy, human rights, migration and mobility). – Investments and trade relations. – Education and development of skills. – Job creation. – Implementation of the EU’s external investment plan (renewable energy and connectivity, micro-enterprises and SMEs, sustainable agriculture, sustainable cities and infrastructure, digital at the service of development). On the sidelines of the summit: - sixth EU/Africa Business Forum (on 27/11) dedicated specifically to young business people and women entrepreneurs
Brussels. European Parliament. Plenary session (and 30/11). *Debates: - ‘European Semester’ budgetary procedure 2018 (Muresan, Ashworth - BUDG). -Decisions on the state of the energy union and fiscal justice measures (Commission statement). – Transitional measures to offset impact of the introduction of the IFRS 9 standard (Simon – ECON). – Instrument contributing to stability and peace (Danjean – AFET). Situation in Yemen (statement by HR Mogherini). – Negotiations on the convention to establish a multilateral court for investment disputes (oral question Commission – INTA).
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – ‘Intellectual property’ package (to be confirmed) (Katainen). – "Fair taxation" package (II) (including a proposed regulation of the Council on tackling VAT fraud in the single market) (Dombrovskis). Communication on food and agriculture (to be confirmed) (Katainen).
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgements: - C-265/16 (VCAST – Does the copyright owner have to authorise the availability of copies of television programmes stored in the "cloud"?). – C-214/16 (King – Legality under EU law of the obligation on a worker to take leave before knowing whether or not he or she is entitled to be paid for that leave).
Thursday 30 November
Brussels. Council of the EU. Competitiveness Council (and 01/12). – General orientation on a single digital portal to guide citizens and businesses to exercise their rights connected to the single market ahead of negotiations with the European Parliament. – Conclusions on future EU industrial policy strategy. – Orientations on the space programmes and conclusions on the mid-term review of the Copernicus programme. – Global challenges during the forthcoming multi-annual framework for research and innovation to take over from the current Horizon 2020 framework programme.
Brussels. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Ranking of non-backed debt instruments in the event of insolvency (Hökmark – ECON). - Implementation of the European strategy in favour of people living with a disability (Stevens – EMPL). * Votes: - Amending budget 6/2017 (Geier – BUDG). – Mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund to pay advances in the framework of the general budget 2018 (Vaidere – BUDG). – Mobilisation of the flexibility instrument to pay for immediate measures to deal with migration and the influx of refugees (Muresan – BUDG). – Mobilisation of the EGF for employees of Attica Retail (Vieu – BUDG), FI/Retail (Popa – BUDG). European Semester budgetary process 2018 (Muresan, Ashworth - BUDG). – Changes to the "investment for growth and employment" resources (Mihaylova – REGI). – EU/Egypt, EU/Algeria, EU/Lebanon, EU/Jordan scientific and technological cooperation agreements (Sakorafa – ITRE). – Accession of various countries to The Hague Convention on the civil aspects of child abduction (Dzhambazki – JURI). – Transitional measures to offset the impact of the introduction of the IFRS 9 standard (Simon – ECON). – Instrument contributing to stability and peace (Danjean – AFET). - Ranking of non-backed debt instruments in the event of insolvency (Hökmark – ECON). – VAT liabilities on distance services and sales of goods (Ivan – ECON). Administrative cooperation and fight against VAT fraud (Niedermayer – ECON). – Situation in Yemen. - Implementation of the European strategy in favour of people living with a disability (Stevens – EMPL).
Brussels. European Committee of the Regions. Plenary session.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Conclusions: - C-426/16 (Liga van Moskeeën en Islamitische Organisaties Provincie Antwerpen e.a – that possibility of banning the slaughter of sheep without stunning them first at certain slaughterhouses on the occasion of the Muslim festival of the sacrifice of Abraham). – C-510/16 (Carrefour Hypermarchés e.a. – Obligation to re-notify state aid approved by the Commission if its decision was based on forecasts that subsequently proved incorrect and the notified aid regime was partially modified).
