Until 15 January 2021

Monday 11 January

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory proceedings: Budget Committee, Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CivCom), Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA).
• Brussels. European Parliament.
• Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities. – BUDG-ECON: votes on the interim agreement reached in trilogue on the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the InvestEU programme and the Technical Support Instrument (agenda https://bit.ly/3ns1NMX ). – IMCO: exchange of views with the Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, on the proposal for a Single Window for Customs and examination of the draft regulation on the Digital Services Act (agenda https://bit.ly/2KeMOZt ). – TRAN: discussion with the European Commission on the EU-UK agreement and its impact on the transport sector (agenda https://bit.ly/2LtYU0W ). – BECA: public hearing “Beating cancer – empowering patients and their carers” (agenda https://bit.ly/2Xrhd9y ). – INGE: exchange of views on a series of working papers on the state of foreign interference in the EU, including disinformation (rapp. S Kalniete) (agenda http://bit.ly/3opaXuW ). – AGRI: public hearing on “Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture” (agenda https://bit.ly/2KNxUcc ). -– LIBE: discussion on the report on the regulation revising the regulation establishing the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (rapp. L Mandl) (agenda https://bit.ly/2XnefD5 ). – CONT: extraordinary meeting (agenda https://bit.ly/3blhVxr ). – ECON: extraordinary meeting (agenda https://bit.ly/3pVAtIC ). – PECH: debate with the Commission on the EU-United Kingdom agreement on the future relationship between the two parties (agenda https://bit.ly/2XgjmoN ) – INTA: extraordinary meeting – EU/United Kingdom trade relations (agenda https://bit.ly/3hXNRZS ). – CULT: ordinary meeting – exchange of views on the outcome of the interinstitutional negotiations on Erasmus+, Creative Europe and the European Solidarity Corps (agenda https://bit.ly/35qtTCi ). – JURI: examination of the results of the interinstitutional negotiations on the Justice programme and opinions on the creation of an independent ethics body for the EU institutions (agenda https://bit.ly/3s0Czc2 ).

Tuesday 12 January

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory proceedings: Political and Security Committee (PSC).
• Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities: – ENVI: review of the Provisional Interinstitutional Agreement on the EU4HealthProgramme.

Wednesday 13 January

• Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory proceedings: Coreper I and II, Cultural Affairs Committee, Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CivCom), Trade Policy Committee (Services and Investment Experts), EU Military Committee (EUMC).
• Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Rulings: – C-414/20 (PPU MM – should a European arrest warrant be considered invalid if it is not based on a national arrest warrant or any other enforceable judicial decision having the same force?) #Conclusions: – C-645/19 (Facebook Ireland et al. – can the Belgian supervisory authority intervene with regard to Facebook Belgium by referring the matter to the Belgian courts, even though Facebook Ireland is the controller and the Belgian supervisory authority is not the lead supervisory authority within the meaning of EU regulations?)

Thursday 14 January

• Brussels. European Commission. Weekly meeting of the College of Commissioners. – College seminar. – Communication on Minority SafePack in response to a European Citizens’ Initiative (Jourova).
• Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory proceedings: PSC, Budget Committee.
• Brussels. European Parliament. Committee activities. – PECH: ordinary meeting – fisheries control (rapp. C Aguilera), opinion on the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 (agenda https://bit.ly/2LCijww ). – AGRI: extraordinary meeting – exchange of views with the Commission on the situation of the milk sector in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic (agenda https://bit.ly/2XnnXFD ). – AIDA: ordinary meeting. – AFET-DEVE: debate on the report on the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (rapp. M Gahler, M Arena, C Goerens and R Juknevičienė) (agenda https://bit.ly/39hvICq ). – EMPL: vote on the Provisional Interinstitutional Agreements on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund and the amendment of the Regulation on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for the most deprived, as well as on the report on reducing inequalities and the opinion on new channels for legal labour migration (agenda https://bit.ly/3biTkta ). – AFCO: report from the representatives of the European Commission’s working group for relations with the United Kingdom.
• Luxembourg. * Court of Justice of the EU. #Rulings: – C-63/19 (Commission v Italy – Contribution to the purchase of motor fuels – does the rebate on the price of motor fuels for residents of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region (Italy) constitute a breach of the Energy Taxation Directive?) – C-393/19 (Okrazhna prokuratura – Haskovo and Apelativna prokuratura – Plovdiv (BG) – Does the judicial confiscation of property used to commit an offence, when it belongs to a third party in good faith, fall within the scope of Union law?) #Conclusions : – C-64/20 (An tAire Talmhaíochta Bia agus Mara, Éire agus an tArd-Aighne – even if it finds that a Member State has not correctly transposed a Union directive, may a national court, at its own discretion, refuse to uphold an action inviting it to draw the consequences?)

Friday 15 January

• Lisbon. European Commission. Visit of the College to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
• Brussels. Council of the EU. Preparatory proceedings: Trade Policy Committee (Alternates).