CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
From 24/06 to 30/06/2019
Monday 24 June
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Ruling: C-619/18 (Commission/Poland – legality under EU law of the Polish reform involving the lowering of the retirement age of Supreme Court judges).
Tuesday 25 June
Luxembourg. Council of the EU. General Affairs Council * Cohesion. – Legislative package 2021-2027: progress of discussions and future challenges in the programming of funds - Discussion on good economic governance and other conditions applicable to EU budgetary expenditure in the area of cohesion policy.
Luxembourg. Council of the EU. Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council *Energy. – Energy Union: conclusions on the future of energy systems in the Energy Union – External relations: European Commission report on recent international energy developments followed by an exchange of views – Miscellaneous: European Commission presentation of its communication on integrated national energy and climate plans published on 18/06.
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – Further strengthening of the 2014 Rule of Law Framework (to be confirmed) (Timmermans). – Annual management and performance report for the EU budget (Juncker with Commissioner Oettinger). – Presentation of the 3rd report of the independent European Fiscal Board on the general direction of budgetary policy in the euro area by its chairman, Mr Thygesen.
Wednesday 26 June
Luxembourg. Council of the EU. Environment Council. – General approach on the regulation on water reuse. – Conclusions on chemicals for deciding a sustainable chemicals policy strategy. – Discussion on Environmental Implementation Review. – Review of measures to reduce the use of single-use plastics and next steps in the fight against marine litter.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper II.
Brussels. European Committee of the Regions. 135th plenary session. To read the agenda, go to: https://bit.ly/2RldYwO
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Rulings: C-723/17 (Craeynest and Others. – method to be used by Member States regarding sampling points used to determine an exceedance of the limit values for pollutants in the air, in this case nitrogen dioxide). – C-159/18 (Moens - is the spillage of fuel on an airport runway that causes a flight to be delayed an extraordinary circumstance exonerating the airline from its obligation to compensate passengers?).
Thursday 27 June
Brussels. Council of the EU. EU-Morocco Association Council.
Brussels. Council of the EU. EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Council.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I.
Luxembourg. * EU Court of Justice. #Conclusions: Case C-585/18 (Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa, C-624/18 CP and C-625/18 DO - does Polish judicial reform (the Supreme Court Act of 8 December 2017) provide sufficient guarantees that the new disciplinary chamber is independent with regard to the method of appointing the members of the National Council for the Judiciary?). * General Court: #Ruling : T-20/17 (Hungary/Commission – compatibility of Hungarian tax on advertising with EU state aid rules).
Friday 28 June
Osaka (J). High-level international meeting. G20 Summit (and 29/06). Main topics: - Defence of multilateralism and international trade and geopolitical tensions (United States-China, United States/Iran, WTO reform - Economic growth and reduction of global inequalities. – Quality infrastructure and health. – Fight against climate change and plastic waste in the oceans. – Digital economy (security of data flows, digital taxation). – Challenges posed by the ageing of populations in rich countries. To view the topics covered above, go to https://bit.ly/2ZzYOqc
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I.
Sunday 30 June
Brussels. European Council. Special meeting dedicated essentially, if not exclusively, to the choice of the personalities who will have to hold the posts of President of the various institutions (European Council, European Commission, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, European Parliament), after the failure of the negotiations on 20 and 21 June.
