CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
10/09 - 16/09/2018
Monday 10 September
Vienna (A). Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the health ministers (and 11/09). - Working meeting to discuss the challenges of regulation and supply policy in the field of European marketing authorisation for medicines.
Strasbourg (F). European Parliament. Plenary session (to 13/09). *Debates: - European Solidarity Corps (Trüpel – CULT). - Structural reform support programme: financial envelope and general objectives (Tomašić – REGI). - Consequences of the EU cohesion policy on Northern Ireland (Vaughan – REGI). - Specific measures for Greece (Arimont – REGI). - Solutions to help workers find a quality job after injury or illness (Žitňanská - EMPL). - Measures for the prevention and fight against bullying and sexual harassment in the workplace, public spaces and in political life (Picierno – FEMM). - Relations between the EU and third countries on regulating and supervising financial services (Hayes – ECON) - Equality of languages in the digital age (Evans – CULT). - Transparent and responsible management of natural resources in the EDF: the case of forests (Hautala – DEVE). - Stimulating the growth and cohesion of the border regions of the EU (Hetman – REGI).
Strasbourg. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 13/09). – ENVI: vote on the proposed rules on emissions standards for private cars and light utility vehicles. LIBE: discussion with the Commission on the proposed regulation establishing the “Rights and values” programme and examination of draft opinions on the European Social Fund (ESF +), the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund will also be examined. – ECON: examination of the draft report on the proposed directive on secured bonds and their public supervision and the proposed regulation on exposures in the form of secured bonds. - ITRE: debate on the creation of the framework programme Horizon Europe and of the associated specific programme for its implementation. - TAX3: public hearing on the taxation of the digital economy, to be attended by representatives of the European Commission and of the OECD.
Tuesday 11 September
Vienna (A). Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the health ministers. – Working meeting to discuss investing in digital health.
Strasbourg (F). European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. Preparations for the state of the union speech (migration, Brexit, fake news, manipulation of data, American gas, etc.) (Juncker).
Strasbourg (F). European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Debate with the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, on the future of Europe. *Formal session: speech by the Lebanese President, Michel Aoun. *Votes: - Equivalence of field inspections (Siekierski – AGRI). -, VAT system, specific regime for SMEs (Vandenkendelaere – ECON). - Implementing decision, control measures on the psycho-active substances, cyclopropylfentanyl and methoxyacetylfentanyl (Škripek – LIBE). - Mobilisation of the Solidarity Fund for Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania and Poland (Lewandowski – BUDG) and draft amending budget no. 4/2018 for these measures (Mureşan – BUDG). - Structural reform support programme: financial envelope and general objective (Tomašić – REGI). - Euratom programme adding to the Horizon 2020 framework programme (Harms – ITRE). – Capital reports presented and debated the day before (see above). *Debates: Situation in Hungary (Sargentini – LIBE). - Copyright in the single digital market (Voss – JURI). - Autonomous weapons systems; state of EU-United States relations (Brok – AFET). - The state of emergency in Libya and the Mediterranean (statement by HR Mogherini). - State of EU-China relations (Belder – AFET). - Controls on cash entering or leaving the EU (Delvaux - ECON, López Aguilar - LIBE). - Finding money laundering through criminal law (Corrao – LIBE)
Brussels. Council of the EU. COPS.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - C-68/17 (IR - does the dismissal of a Catholic chief physician by a Catholic hospital in Germany due to his divorce constitute discrimination of the grounds of religion?).
Wednesday 12 September
Strasbourg (F). European Parliament. Plenary session. *Priority debate: speech by President Juncker on the state of the union and debate. *Votes: - Nominal quantities for the marketing in the EU of single-distilled schocu (Vălean – ENVI). - Amendment to the US-EU Memorandum of Cooperation (deployment of air traffic management systems) (Paksas – ITRE). - Agreement on Air Transport between Canada and the EU (accession of Croatia) (Assis – TRAN). – Reports debated during the evening of the day before (see above). *Debates: - The future of pensions: fighting privatisation and strengthening public universal social security systems. - Presentation by the Council of its position on the draft general budget 2019. - Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and free movement of such data (Ernst – LIBE). - Common discussion on a plastics strategy and chemical, products and waste legislation: - A European Strategy for Plastics in a circular economy (Demesmaeker – ENVI). - Options to address the interface between chemical, product and waste legislation (Council/ENVI; Commission/ENVI). – Action plan to fight microbial resistance (Kadenbach – ENVI). - Creation of a Single Digital Gateway (Mizzi – IMCO). - Europe on the move: an agenda for the future of mobility in the EU (Ujhelyi – TRAN).
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I, II and ‘Article 50’.
Brussels. Council of the EU. COPS.
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: – C-601/17 (Harms – should the amount to be reimbursed to passengers by an airline in the event of the cancellation of a flight include commissions paid to intermediaries when purchasing the tickets?).
Thursday 13 September
Strasbourg (F). European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Implementation of the Plant Protection Products Regulation (Poc ENVI). - Dual quality of products in the single market (Sehnalová – IMCO). - Cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Uganda, Myanmar/Burma, Cambodia). - Speech by Zoran Zaev, Prime Minister of FYROM. *Votes: - resolutions on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Cooperation agreement between Eurojust and Albania (Ferrara – LIBE). – Reports debated on the evening of the day before and that morning (see above). *Major interpellations
Vienna (A). Council of the EU. Conference on security and migration (and 14/09). Meeting of the home affairs ministers of the EU and of third countries with experts from specialist agencies and international organisations. - Cooperation with the Western Balkans and Moldova in the following areas (police, asylum, migration, protection of the borders, fighting extremism).
Luxembourg. *Court of Justice of the EU. #Judgments: - C-369/17 (Ahmed - Can a person be excluded from the benefit of subsidiary protection if he or she has committed a serious crime as set out by national law solely on the basis of the sentence passed?). – Joined cases C-358/16 (UBS Europe e.a.) and C-594/16 (Buccioni – Obligation for the national financial supervisory authorities to grant access to information covered by professional secrecy in order to guarantee defence rights or for them to be used in the framework of a civil or commercial procedure). – Joined cases C-54/17 (Wind Tre) and C-55/17 (Vodafone Italia – does selling SIM cards containing pre-installed payable services without informing consumers of this constitute an unfair aggressive commercial practice?). *General Court of the EU: #Judgments: T-715/14 (Rosneft e.a./Council), T-732/14 (Sberbank of Russia/Council), T-734/14 (VTB Bank/Council), T-735/14 (Gazprom Neft/Council), T-737/14 (Vnesheconombank/and), T-739/14 (PSC Prominvestbank/Council), T-798/14 (DenizBank/Council), T-799/14 (Gazprom Neft/Council) (EN) et T-515/15 (Almaz-Antey/Council – Publication for cancellation of sanctions adopted by the Council against these Russian banks and businesses in the framework of the crisis in Ukraine). – T-104/17 (Apple/EUIPO – Apo International – Apple’s opposition to the registration of the sign apo as an EU trademark).
Friday 14 September
Brussels. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of the foreign affairs ministers. *Development:
Vienna (A). Council of the EU. Conference on security and migration. Meeting of the home affairs ministers of the EU and of third countries with experts from specialist agencies and international organisations. - Cooperation with North Africa in the context of migration and security
