14/01 - 21/01/2019

Monday 14 January

• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session (through 17/01). *Debates: - EU pesticide authorisation procedure (Linen, Staes – PEST – Vote Thursday 16/01). - Use of vehicles hired out without drivers in the transport of goods by road (Monteiro de Aguiar – TRAN). - Gender mainstreaming in the European Parliament (Mlinar – FEMM). - European Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy (Marinescu – ITRE). - Assessment of how the EU budget is used for public sector reform (Hayes – CONT). - EU guidelines and mandate of its Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the EU (Grzyb – AFET). - Gender equality and tax policies in the EU (Matias – ECON, Urtasun – FEMM). - Autonomous vehicles in European transport (Van de Camp – TRAN).
• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Commission activities (through 17/01). – ITRE: vote on the non-legislative report on a comprehensive European industrial policy on artificial intelligence and robotics.

Tuesday 15 January

• Strasbourg. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Legislate more effectively in the area of taxation: identification of areas for qualified majority voting (Dombrovskis).
• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - European Council conclusions of 13-14/12 (decl. European Council and Commission). - Reform of the EU's asylum and migration policy (decl. Council and Commission). - Assessment of the Austrian Presidency of the Council (decl. Council and Commission). *Formal sitting: 20th anniversary of the euro. *Votes: Establishment, within the framework of the Integrated Border Management Fund, of the financial support instrument for customs control equipment (Pospíšil – IMCO). - Agreement on the status of EU-Albania on the actions of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency in Albania (Valero – LIBE) - Protocol to the EU-Kyrgyzstan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (accession of Croatia) (Preda – AFET). - EU/Kyrgyzstan Global Agreement (Preda – AFET) - Temporary withdrawal of tariff preferences in certain agreements concluded between the EU and certain third countries (Fjellner – INTA). - Establishment of the Customs programme for cooperation in the customs field (Grapini – IMCO). - Amendment of the EIB's Statute (Hübner – AFCO). - Reports discussed the day before (see above). *Debates: - Presentation of the programme of activities of the Romanian Presidency (decl. Council and Commission). - ECB Report 2017 (Mato – ECON). - Annual report 2018 on the banking union (Torvalds – ECON). - Establishment of the InvestEU programme (Fernandes – BUDG, Gualtieri – ECON). - Joint discussion on the implementation of trade and association agreements in Latin America: EU-Colombia and Peru Trade Agreement (Ayxelà – INTA), Trade and Association Agreement with Central America (Böge – INTA). - European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) (Arena – EMPL). - European Social Fund plus (ESF) (Lope Fontagné – EMPL). - Specific provisions relating to the “European Territorial Cooperation Objective” (Interreg) (Arimont – REGI).

Wednesday 16 January

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper I and II.
• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (decl. Council and Commission. - Debate with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, on the future of Europe. *Votes: - Closing of EASO's accounts for 2016 (decision). - Resolution requesting the opinion of the ECJ on the envisaged EU/Morocco agreement on the amendment of Protocols 1 and 4 to the Euro-Mediterranean Agreement and the relevant agreement (Schaake – INTA). - Measures affecting tariff concessions for certain poultry products under the EU-China WTO Agreement (DS492 case) (Winkler (INTA). - Allocation of tariff quotas in the EU WTO list after the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU (Quisthoudt-Rowohl – INTA). - Reports discussed the day before or on Monday (Lins/Staes – PEST report) (see above). *Debates: - Global European education, research and remembrance of the totalitarian past (topical debate). - Fundamental rights situation in the EU in 2017 (Terricabras – LIBE). *Votes: - Specific financing programme for the decommissioning of nuclear installations and the management of radioactive waste (Kouroumbashev – ITRE). - European Union temporary travel document (Kinga Gál – LIBE). - Euratom research and training programme for the period 2021–2025 (Kumpula-Natri – ITRE). - Other reports debated the day before or during the day (report Terricabras). *Debates: - Combating late payment in commercial transactions (Comi – IMCO). - Annual report on EIB financial activities (Kappel – ECON). - Annual report on the control of EIB financial activities for 2017 (Pirinski – CONT). - Protection of the Union's budget in the event of a general failure of the rule of law in a Member State (Gardiazabal Rubial – BUDG, Sarvamaa – CONT). - Establishment of the Fiscalis programme for tax cooperation (Giegold – ECON). - Establishment of the Rights and Values Program (Valero – LIBE). - Assistance programme for the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania (Harms – ITRE).
• Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Rulings: C-265/17 P (Commission/United Parcel Service – Action against the annulment by the Court of First Instance of the European Union of the Commission's decision refusing the merger between UPS and TNT in the express distribution of small packages).

Thursday 17 January

• Strasbourg. European Parliament. Plenary session. *Debates: - Differentiated integration (Durand – AFCO). - Strategic inquiry OI/2/2017 of the Mediator of the French Republic on the transparency of legislative debates in the preparatory bodies of the Council of the EU (Leinen – AFCO, Toom – PETI). - Case of human rights violation, democracy and the rule of law (Togo, Azerbaijan, Sudan). *Votes: - Cross-border claims for the restitution of works of art and cultural property stolen during looting during armed conflict and war (Svoboda – JURI). - European Instrument for Nuclear Safety supplementing the Neighbourhood, Development Cooperation and International Cooperation Instrument (Urutchev – ITRE). - Reports discussed the day before or during the day (see above). *Debate: - Protection of European rice (Siekirsi OQ – AGRI/Commission).

Friday 18 January

• Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper I.