Brussels, 09/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The main items to be discussed at the EP Plenary Session on 11 and 12 October in Brussels include the preparation of the informal summit in Lahti on 20 October (see EUROPE 9270), the agreement with the United States on transferring air passenger name records (see EUROPE 9281), definitive anti-dumping duties against imports of leather footwear from China and Vietnam, developments in Transnistria and South Ossetia (see EUROPE 9265 on the subject of the visit by Georgian Foreign Minister and No9267 on the subject of the EP/Georgia Joint Parliamentary Commission), and the European Agency on fundamental rights that the Finnish Presidency would like to see operational in January 2007 (EUROPE 9266). The reports by Geoffrey van Orden and Pierre Moscovici on accession by Bulgaria and Romania were withdrawn from the agenda and deferred till the plenary session from 13 to 16 November.
Details of the agenda are as follows (we recall that another plenary is being held from 23 to 26 October in Strasbourg):
Wednesday 11 October (from 15h00): - Commission statement on the agreement reached with the United States on the transfer of air passenger details (probable); - Council and Commission declarations on the informal Lahti summit; - Commission declaration on definitive anti-dumping duties on imports of shoes from China and Vietnam; - Council and Commission declarations on the situation in Transnistria and South Ossetia; - Kacin report on the European Agency for Reconstruction; - joint discussion on the reports by Busquin (codecision, first reading) on rules for the participation of companies, research centres and universities in implementing and diffusing the results of research under the 7th framework programme for research and development of the European Community, and that by Laperrouze (consultation) on rules concerning the 7th framework programme of the European Community on atomic energy (EURATOM); - joint discussion on the Moraes report on the salary and status of Europol personnel (consultation in both cases); the Schlyter report on the proposal for a directive on restrictions to the marketing and use of perfluorooctane sulfonates (codecision, first reading); - Chichester report on amendments to the regulation on management structures fro European satellite radio-navigation programmes (consultation); Jeggle report on the protection and wellbeing of animals in the period 2006-2010; - and the Ehler report on follow-up to the report on competition in the liberal professions sector; - as well as the Daniel Varela Suances-Carpegna report on EU/Mercosur economic and trade relations with a view to concluding an interregional association agreement.
Thursday 12 October (until 13h00): - joint discussion on the Gal report on the proposal for a regulation on the creation of a European Agency on fundamental rights and of the EU, and Kosane Kovacs report on the decision authorising the Agency to carry out its activities in the fields targeted under Title VI of the EU Treaty (consultation in both cases); - voting.