CALENDAR / Main activities of european institutions
From 27/04 through 03/05/2020
Monday 27 April
Brussels. Council of the EU. Videoconference of Ministers responsible for Tourism. – Exchange of information and best practices on the support measures taken so far at national level to address the consequences for the sector of the measures taken to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and on the actions to be taken in the future at national and EU level to ensure the rapid recovery of the sector.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities (all meetings are online): – ECON: Debate with Vice-President Dombrovskis (Economics at the service of people) and Gentiloni (Economics) on the economic impact and EU response to the COVID-19 pandemic). – LIBE: exchange of views with different stakeholders on the situation in Libya and along the Central Mediterranean migration route. – INTA: virtual meeting of shadow rapporteurs on future relations between the EU and the United Kingdom. – SEDE: discussion of the draft report on EU-Africa security cooperation in the Sahel region, West Africa and the Horn of Africa (rapp. Nart); consideration of the draft report on arms exports: implementation of Common Position 2008/944/CFSP (rapp. Neumann); examination of the draft opinion on the framework for ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies (rapp. Paet).
Tuesday 28 April
Brussels. Council of the EU. Videoconference of Ministers of the Interior. – Response to COVID-19: situation and measures to be taken at internal and external borders to guarantee health security and the free movement of goods with a view to relaxing or lifting internal border controls; coordination of measures to prevent the spread of the virus and the possible use of tracing applications; report on the implementation of the Commission guidelines on asylum, return and resettlement in the context of the response to the pandemic; coordinated response and cooperation to deal with the criminal activities caused by the pandemic (trafficking, scams, etc.). – Migration: current situation, in particular at the border with Turkey and in the western and central Mediterranean; transfer of unaccompanied minors from Greece to other Member States.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Videoconference of Energy Ministers. – COVID-19: impact of the pandemic on the energy sector and preparing for the sector's economic recovery. – Status of national energy and climate plans and long-term renovation strategies.
Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory Proceedings: PSC (poss.)
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities: – AGRI: Vote on the report on transitional arrangements for support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (rapp. Katainen); vote on the report (EAGF) in 2021. – TRAN: Exchange of views with Transport Commissioner Adina-Ioana Vălean on the Commission’s response to the COVID-19 crisis in the transport sector; ‘mobility I’ package: examination of draft recommendations on: – control requirements and specific rules for the posting of drivers in the road transport sector (rapp. Konečná), – the amendment of the Regulation on maximum driving time and daily and weekly rest periods for lorry drivers and the Regulation on tachograph location (rapp. Virkkunen), – adaptation of Regulations 10071/2009 and 1072/2009 (rapp. Ertug), electronic information for the carriage of goods (rapp. Deli).
Wednesday 29 April
Brussels. Council of the EU. Videoconference of Transport Ministers. – COVID-19: Evaluation of the measures taken to counter the negative effects of the pandemic on the sector and coordination to relax the restrictive measures currently in place on the basis of the de-confinement strategy defined by the EU, with the participation of representatives from Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, whose transport systems are closely linked to those of the EU).
Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners (videoconference?) – ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy (Timmermans). – EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (Timmermans).
Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory Proceedings: Coreper II.
Thursday 30 April
Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory Proceedings: Coreper I.
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities: – CHEP: review of draft report on fisheries control (Aguileira); review of draft recommendations for negotiations on a new partnership with the United Kingdom. – PETI: discussion on a series of petitions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic; vote on the opinion on the recommendations for negotiations on a new relationship with the United Kingdom.
Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the European Union. #Judgments: – C-584/18 (D. Z./Blue Air Management Solutions SRL et al. – What remedies are available to an air passenger who is denied the right to board an aircraft) – joint cases C-168/19 (HB/Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS)) and C-169/19 (IC/INPS – Can a Member State subject national pensioners resident in another Member State to different tax rules depending on whether they are retired from the private or the public sector)? – C-211/19 (UO/Készenléti Rendőrség – Does the Working Time Directive apply to officers of the Hungarian intervention police carrying out surveillance of the external borders of the Schengen area in the context of the migration crisis) #Conclusions: C-693/18 (Public Prosecutor’s office/company X et al. – compliance with EU law of the device fitted by a vehicle manufacturer on diesel vehicles which modulates the operation of the emission control system when the conditions of the type-approval procedures have been detected). – C-352/19 P (Brussels-Capital Region/Commission – Must the order of the Court of First Instance declaring the Brussels-Capital Region inadmissible for seeking the annulment of the regulation renewing the approval of glyphosate be set aside?)
