CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
18/12 - 24/12
Monday 18 December
Tallinn. Council of the EU. “Transport, Telecommunications and Energy” Council. *Energy: - Orientations on the four legislative dossiers comprising the “Clean Energy" package (on the governance of the Energy Union; directive on the promotion of energy from renewable sources; directive establishing common rules for single electricity market; regulation on the single electricity market) in view of negotiations with Parliament and for the implementation of the Energy Union strategy and completing the 2030 “climate and energy” targets. – Any other items: recent international developments in energy domain. – Presentation of the Bulgarian Presidency work programme.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities (to 21/12). – JURI: launch of public consultation on citizens' expectations regarding European public administration (from 15/12 over 12 weeks).
Brussels. European Commission. Informal meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Western Balkan Countries (Albania, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia) with HR Federica Mogherini to discuss developments in the region and perspectives for 2018 d.
Tuesday 19 December
Geneva (Switzerland). European Parliament. Committee activities. - ITRE-IMCO-JURI-LIBE: sending delegation to the 12th annual Internet Governance Forum in Geneva (to 21/12) on the theme of, “Shaping Your Digital Future".
Wednesday 20 December
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. - proposal to update the Council' negotiating directives for the negotiations with the United Kingdom on the basis of Article 50 TEU (Juncker). - Proposal for revising the directive on the written declaration (Dombrovskis). - “Goods and Merchandise” Package’ (Katainen). - Visa Reciprocity Package (including the reports on the possible suspension of the derogation for the US visa, the assessment of the effectiveness of the visa reciprocity mechanism and to the visa suspension mechanism) (Timmermans). ‑ Union of capital markets: revised framework for investment companies (Dombrovskis/Katainen). - Extension of the entry into force of the directive (EU) 2016/97 on insurance distribution (Dombrovskis/Katainen). - decision on whether or not to recognise Switzerland as an equivalent under the terms of article 23 of the regulation on the financial instruments markets (Dombrovskis). - rule of law in Poland: itinerary (Timmermans). – The next meeting of the College will take place on 10/01/2018.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II and ‘Article 50’.
Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. # Rulings: - C-434/15 (Asociación Profesional Elite Taxi – Need for Uber to have national licenses and consent to exercise its activity). – C-372/16 (Sahyouni – possibility of deciding by way of Rome III the law applicable to private divorces). – C-291/16 (Schweppes – Possibility for Schweppes to oppose the import and/or market marketing in Spain of Schweppes products from the United Kingdom where this brand is owned by Coca-Cola). – C-393/16 (Wine from Champagne Inter-Professional Committee – possibility of marketing and ice cream the nomination of ‘Champagne sorbet’). – C-434/16 (Nowak – are the written responses of a candidate and the notations of the examiner during a professional examination data of a personal nature?). – C-467/16 (Schlömp - does a Swiss reconciliation authority in charge of processing civil requests constitute a jurisdiction in the sense of the Lugano II Convention if it is indeed competent for processing the request if it is the first to tackle the matter in question?). – Cases C-66/16 P (Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco et Itelazpi/Commission), C 67/16 P (Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña et CTTI/Commission), C 68/16 P (Navarra de Servicios y Tecnologías/Commission), C 69/16 P (Cellnex Telecom et Retevisión I/Commission - annulment of Commission decision ordering the recovery of state aid granted by Spain to terrestrial television platform operators); - C-226/16 (ENI e.a. – possibility for member states to compel natural gas suppliers to exclusively hold sufficient gas stocks on national territory). – C-442/16 (Gusa - does a European citizen who has ceased exercising a self-employed activity in another member state after more than a year of doing so due to the lack of a job maintain his status as a worker and his right to remain in the member state?). – C-102/16 (Vaditrans – Possibility for lorry drivers to take their weekly rest time in their vehicle). – C158/16 (Vega González - Do workers on non-permanent contracts who are elected to a parliamentary function have the same right to benefit from the special holiday granted to permanent civil servants in view of exercising their political mandate?).
