CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
04/02 to 10/02/2019
Monday 4 February
Brussels. Council of the European Union. EU-League of Arab States Ministerial Meeting. – EU/Arab League cooperation in preparation for the first summit between the two parties (24-25/02 in Egypt). – Panorama of key international and regional issues of mutual interest (terrorism, migration, climate, human rights, regional conflicts). – Strengthening the partnership between the EU and Arab countries.
Brussels. European Parliament. Commission activities (through 08/02). – LIBE-JURI: vote on the report on the Pericles IV programme for the protection of the euro against counterfeiting for the period 2021-2027; vote on the Visa Information System; vote on the Eurojust-Georgia Cooperation Agreement; vote on the Justice programme; examination of the draft report on preventing the dissemination of terrorist content online. – TAXE3: Hearing of representatives of Deutsche Bank to investigate the bank's alleged money laundering activities.
Tuesday 5 February
Brussels. European Parliament. Commission activities. – TAXE3: hearing on the impact of tax evasion and money laundering on the real estate markets, particularly in European cities.
Wednesday 6 February
Bucharest. Council of the European Union. Informal meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers (through 08/02). *Home affairs: discussions on borders, the fight against terrorism, the future of police cooperation in the digital environment. *Justice: discussions on how to further develop judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, the future of judicial cooperation in criminal matters in the EU and electronic evidence.
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Commission Recommendation to establish a format for the Electronic Exchange of Health Records in the EU (Ansip). – Act implementing the Work Programme for the European Defence Industry Development Programme (Katainen). – Recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations for an EU-US agreement on cross-border access to electronic evidence for judicial cooperation in criminal matters (Timmermans). – Recommendation for a Council Decision authorising the opening of negotiations on a second Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (Timmermans). – Discussion on the certification of imported biofuels.
Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper I and II.
Brussels. European Committee of the Regions. Plenary session (and 07/02)
Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Conclusions: C-591/17 (Austria/Germany – is the exemption in Germany from the road infrastructure charge only for owners of vehicles registered in Germany discriminatory and does it affect the free movement of goods and the freedom to provide services?)
Thursday 7 February
Brussels. European Commission. Publication of the winter 2019 economic forecasts.
Brussels. European Parliament. Commission activities. – BUDG: review of the guidelines for the 2020 budget. – ECON/BUDG: Consideration of amendments to the interim report on the establishment of the European Monetary Fund. – DEVE-ENVI: review of strategic and monitoring actions necessary to achieve the sustainable development objectives (SDOs); presentation by Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans of the recent discussion paper on sustainable development; review of the non-legislative report on the implementation of the SDOs prepared by the two Commissions.
Brussels. European Committee of the Regions. Plenary session. Adoption of the following opinions: – Creative Europe and a New European Agenda for Culture (rapp. Karacsony, EPP, Hungary). – Erasmus programme for education, training, youth and sport (Hiller, PES, Germany). – A renewed European Agenda for Research and Innovation (Sacrédeus, EPP, Sweden). – Artificial Intelligence for Europe (Trei, EPP, Estonia). – Digitisation in the Health sector (López Miras, EPP, Spain). – Tackling online disinformation: a European Approach (Geblewicz, EPP, Poland). – Towards the 8th Environmental Action Programme (Lamers, EPP, Netherlands). – Road Safety and automated mobility (Ribányi, EPP, Hungary). – Streamlining TEN-T implementation (Scheffer, NL/ALDE).
Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Rulings: C-322/17 (Bogatu – does EU law require that a person must be in paid employment in order to receive family benefits?)
Friday 8 February
Brussels. Council of the European Union. Coreper I.
Luxembourg. * General Court of the European Union: #Arrêt: T-647/17 (Serendipity and others/EUIPO – application for annulment of the decision of the EUIPO refusing to register the figurative mark 'Chiara Ferragni' as an EU mark).
