CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
From 05/07 to 04/07/2019
Monday 8 July
Brussels. Council of the EU. Eurogroup. * Training at Nineteen: - Discussion on the budgetary situation in the euro area in preparation for the draft budget plans and recommendations for the euro area in 2020 - Greece: examination of the report of the third mission under the post-programme enhanced surveillance framework, following the parliamentary elections in the country - Spain: report of the eleventh post-programme surveillance mission - Italy: examination of the country's budgetary situation and explanation of the Commission's decision not to launch the excessive deficit procedure on debt criteria - International role of the euro: results of the sectoral consultations conducted by the Commission and the analysis carried out by the ECB. - Other: implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact in the euro area; appointment process for the new President of the ECB; project to issue a common commemorative euro coin for the 35th anniversary of the Erasmus programme; presentation of the priorities of the new Finnish Presidency. *Extended training at Twenty-seven: - Deepening EMU: follow-up to the June euro area summit. - Miscellaneous.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council - Policy debate on the 'welfare economy', the main focus of the Finnish Presidency in the social field, following a presentation of the OECD report on this subject by the organisation's President, Angel Gurría - European Semester: approval of the recommendations concerning the National Reform Programmes for 2019, the country-by-country recommendations and adoption of the guidelines for Member States' employment policies - Climate: debate on the employment aspects of a climate-neutral economy. - Miscellaneous: international developments in the field of employment and social affairs.
Kiev (UA). Council of the EU. EU/Ukraine Summit. The presidents of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, will meet the new Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy - Reaffirmation by the EU of its support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine - Situation in the Azov Sea and condemnation of Russian measures guaranteeing Russian citizenship to Ukrainians living in territories not controlled by the government - Exchange of views on future priorities in EU-Ukraine relations in the implementation of the Association Agreement. - Progress in reforms in Ukraine (fight against corruption, reforms in the energy sector, administration, respect for the rule of law, etc.). - Bilateral trade and implementation of the deep and comprehensive free trade area.
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the commissions (to 12/07) - Establishment of various commissions and sub-committees which will elect their respective offices for the first regular meetings in the week of 22/07.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the European Union #Cases: - C-543/17 (Commission/Belgium - failure by Belgium to notify measures transposing the Directive on the roll-out of high-speed electronic communications networks).
Tuesday 9 July
Brussels. Council of the EU. Economic and Financial Affairs Council - MFF 2021-2027: Debate on the EU's own resources and new sources of financing under the multiannual financial framework package 2021-2027 - European semester: adoption of country recommendations concluding the 2019 financial year of the European semester and decisions/recommendations on the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact - Finnish Presidency: presentation of the work programme in the field of economic and monetary affairs.
Wednesday 10 July
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Coreper I and II.
Brussels. European Committee of the Regions. 134th plenary session.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the European Union - Rulings (#Arrêts): - C-649/17 (Amazon EU - obligation for Amazon EU to make a telephone number available to its customers on its website) - C-410/18 (Aubriet - legality, under EU law, of the minimum working time conditions imposed by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on parents of non-resident students for the granting of financial assistance) - C-163/18 (HQ and others - in the event of cancellation of a flight, can an air ticket be reimbursed by both a tour operator and the air carrier?).
Thursday 11 July
Helsinki. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of Environment Ministers (and 12/07) - Discussions on the level of ambition for climate in the EU and to raise global ambition for the UN Summit on Climate Action on 23/09 - Targets to halt the destruction of biodiversity after 2020
Luxembourg * Court of Justice of the European Union: - Judgments: - C-91/18 (Commission v Greece - legality under EU law of Greece's application of a preferential rate of excise duty (50% of that applied to alcoholic beverages from other Member States) to tsipouro (grape marc spirit) - C-502/18 (České aerolinia - must an EU air carrier with which a passenger has booked a connecting flight at a non-Member State airport and operated by a third country air carrier compensate a passenger in the event of a delay of that connecting flight?). * EU General Court: Rulings (#Arrêts): - T-185/17 (PlasticsEurope/ECHA - does the way bisphenol A is used as an intermediate influence its classification as a substance of very high concern?) - aff.jtes T-244/16 and T-285/17 (Yanukovych/Council), T-245/16 and 286/17 (Yanukovych/Council), T-274/18 (Klymenko/Council), T-284/18 (Arbuzov/Council), T-285/18 (Pshonka/Council), T-289/18 (Pshonka/Council) and T-305/18 (Klyuyev/Council - request for annulment of the Council's decisions to freeze the assets of various Ukrainian figures for the years 2016 to 2019). - T-894/16 (Air France - Commission - compatibility with EU law of aid granted by the Bouches-du-Rhône General Council to Marseille Provence airport and certain airlines).
Friday 12 July
Helsinki. Council of the EU. Informal meeting of Environment Ministers - Circular economy: solutions that the circular economy can bring to the problems of climate change and biodiversity loss; discussion on the steps for the possible establishment of a European circular economy 2.0.
Luxembourg * General Court of the EU: Rulings: - Case T-762/15 (Sony and Sony Electronics v Commission), T-763/15 (Sony Optiarc and Sony Optiarc America v Commission), T-772/15 (Quanta Storage v Commission), T-1/16 (Hitachi-LG Data Storage and Hitachi-LG Data Storage Korea v Commission), T-8/16 (Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology and Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea v Commission - request for annulment of the Commission's decision finding a cartel on the market for optical disk drives for computers and imposing a fine on the companies concerned). - T-94/15 RENV (Binca Seafoods v Commission - can hormones be used to raise panga, a fish produced in Vietnam and sold as an organic product?)
