CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
09/07 - 15/07
Monday 9 July
Brussels. European Council, Council of the EU and European Commission. EU/Ukraine summit to be attended by Donald Tusk, Jean-Claude Juncker and Petro Poroshenko. - Implementation of the association agreement and the free-trade zone it provides for. – State of progress in reforms in Ukraine and EU support for this process. – State of implementation of Minsk agreements. – Conflict over annexation of Crimea and Sebastopol by Russia. – Regional questions.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 12/07). - FEMM: hearing on the subject “Tackling the gender pay gap”. – JURI: hearing on the subject “The accelerated settlement of trade disputes in the EU”.
Tuesday 10 July
Brussels. European Commission. Presentation of the report by the working group on subsidiarity, proportionality and ‘Doing Less, More Efficiently’.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. – JURI: hearing on EU administrative law. – TRAN: public hearing on the theme of discrimination in the distribution of aerial corridors. – LIBE: hearing on the visa code and humanitarian visas.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: C-25/17 (Jehovan todistajat - is the community of Jehovah’s Witnesses responsible for the processing of personal data collected within the framework of its door-to-door preaching activities?).
Wednesday 11 July
Brussels. European Council, Council of the EU and European Commission. Summit of the heads of state or government of the member countries of NATO (and 12/07). – EU/NATO cooperation in military mobility, cyber-security, hybrid threats, the fight against terrorism, women and security. – Meeting of the EU leaders (Tusk, Juncker, Mogherini) with various heads of state or government, including the President of the United States, Donald Trump.
Brussels. European Council, Council of the EU and European Commission. EU/Japan summit. To be attended by Donald Tusk, Jean-Claude Juncker, Shinzo Abe, Federica Mogherini and Cecilia Malmström. – Signature of the EU/Japan economic partnership agreement and strategic partnership agreement. – Possibility of improving cooperation in security and defence matters, data protection, education, research and the fight against climate change. – International questions: Ukraine, Middle East, South China Sea, denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, agreement on Iranian nuclear.
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Preparations for the 2019 working programme of the Commission (Timmermans)
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I, II and Art.50.
Brussels. European Economic and Social Committee. Plenary session (and 12/07). – Debate with Commissioner Sefcovic (Energy Union) on the modernisation of the European economy: development potential of the regions offered by the decentralisation of energy production and sustainable transport. – Priorities of the Austrian Presidency presented by Gernot Blümel, the Austrian Federal Minister for culture, art and the media.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. – DROI-DEVE: joint hearing on the subject “Cocoa and coffee – devastating rainforest and driving child labour: the role of EU consumption and how the EU can help”. – CULT: public hearing on the New European Agenda for Culture. – CONT: hearing on the subject “Performance and visibility of EU-funded projects in the EU’s Neighbourhood Policy with a special focus on the cross-border co-operation between Western Balkans countries”.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: C-356/15 (Commission/Belgium – legality of a member state’s refusal to recognise the A1 certificate (ex E101) issued by another member state in a fraud case). – C-154/17 (E LATS – can goods containing precious metals or stones that are resold principally in order to extract these be considered second-hand goods and therefore come under a more favourable VAT regime?). – C-629/16 (CX – legality of authorisation requested by a member state for the commercial transport of goods with Turkey). *General Court of the EU: #Judgment: T-240/16 (Klyuyev/Council – cancellation of the freezing of assets against the former head of the Ukrainian administration for the period March 2016 - March 2017 and March 2017 - March 2018).
Thursday 12 July
Brussels. Council of the EU. Eurogroup. – Follow-up to the conclusions of the Eurozone summit of 29/06. – Presentation of the Commission’s interim summer forecast. Budgetary situation: discussion on the budgetary situation and prospects in the Eurozone in 2019. – Ireland and Spain: presentation of the conclusions of the ninth post-programme surveillance mission of both countries. – Any other business.
Innsbrück (Austria). Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the justice and home affairs ministers (and 13/07). Meeting of home affairs ministers.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees. -TERR: public hearing on the security of critical infrastructure and public spaces. – IMCO: public hearing on the impact and implementation of the directive of payment delays in member states.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: C-89/16 (Banger - when an EU citizen returns to his or her member state of origin, is that member state required to promote the entry and residence of his or her non-EU partner?). #Conclusions: C-221/17 (Tjebbes e.a. – Compatibility with EU law of the automatic loss of Dutch nationality for minors residing outside the EU). *General Court of the EU: #Judgments: T-356/15 (Austria/Commission – application for the cancellation of the Commission’s decision to approve UK aid in favour of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station). – Joined cases T-419/14 to T-475/14 e.a. (14 companies/Commission – application for the cancellation of fines handed down by the Commission to producers of extra-high voltage power cables for their involvement in a cartel).
Friday 13 July
Innsbrück (Austria). Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the justice and home affairs ministers. *Informal meeting of the Justice and home affairs ministers of the trio of Presidencies of the EU and of the Eastern Partnership. *Meeting of the EU justice ministers.
Brussels. Council of the EU. ‘Economic and Financial Affairs’ Council. – VAT: exchange of views on the reverse-charge mechanism and the electronic publication of prospectuses. – Next steps following the conclusions of the European Council of the end of June. – Mandate ahead of the ‘finance’ G20 (21-22/07). – Presentation of the priorities of the Austrian Presidency. – Adoption without discussion of the country-specific recommendations concluding the current ‘European Semester’ exercise.
Brussels. Coreper I.
Brussels. Council of the EU. EU-Bosnia & Herzegovina stabilisation and association council. – Examination of relations in the framework of the stabilisation and association process. – Progress in the pre-accession process, particularly in light of the Commission’s 2018 report. Bilateral relations within the framework of the stabilisation and association agreement and progress in the implementation of the agreement. – Development of the situation in Bosnia & Herzegovina and in the Western Balkans.
Brussels. Council of the EU. EU-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia stabilisation and association council. – Examination of relations in the framework of the stabilisation and association process. – Progress in the pre-accession process. – Bilateral relations within the framework of the stabilisation and association agreement and progress in the implementation of the agreement. – Development of the situation in the country and in the region.
Luxembourg. *General Court of the EU: #Judgments: - Joined cases T-680/13 K. (Chrysostomides & Co. e.a./Council e.a.) and T-786/14 (Bourdouvali e.a./Council e.a. – Possibility for individuals and businesses to seek damages from the EU following the restructuring of the Cypriot banking sector). – T-797/17 (Star Television Productions/EUIPO – Marc Dorcel (STAR) – Application by the pornographic film production company Marc Dorcel for the cancellation of the trademark STAR for lack of serious use). – Joined cases T-275/17 (Curto/Parlement) and T-377/17 (SQ/BEI – damages sought by two European Parliament and EIB staff members for bullying). – Joined cases T-733/16 to T-768/16 (6 French banks/ECB - was the ECB right to refuse six French banks leave to exclude certain exposures related to French savings pass books from the leverage ratio calculation?).
