Brussels, 16/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - Due to Orthodox Easter falling next week, the European Parliament will meet on Tuesday. The plenary will end on Friday 24 April at the end of the votes. On Thursday morning, the key debate from this penultimate session will focus on health patient rights. The detailed agenda for this session is as follows:
Tuesday 21 April (5.00pm-midnight)
One-minute speeches (Article 144)
Common discussion on Energy Package
Commission statement on external energy security; Recommendation: Eluned Morgan - Internal market in electricity; Recommendation: Giles Chichester - Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators; Recommendation: Alejo Vidal-Quadras - Conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges in electricity; Recommendation: Antonio Mussa - Internal market in natural gas; Recommendation: Atanas Paparizov - Conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks; Report: Ivo Belet - Labelling of tyres with respect to fuel efficiency
Joint debate - Mobile communications
Report: Vãlean - mobile telephone networks; Report: Pleguezuelos - Frequency bands to be reserved for mobile communications
Budget discharges 2007 (31 reports)
Report: Ransdorf - Minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products
Report: Hökmark - A Community framework for nuclear safety
Short presentations: Report: Mitchell - Democratic scrutiny of Regulation 1905/2006 establishing a financing instrument for development cooperation; Report: Busuttil -A Common Immigration Policy for Europe
Wednesday 22 April (9.00am-midnight)
Joint debate - Measures against the financial crisis
Report: Gauzès - Credit rating agencies; Report: Renate Weber - Reporting and documentation requirements in the case of merger and divisions; Report: Hoppenstedt - Community programme to support specific activities in the field of financial services, financial reporting and auditing
The report by Othmar Karas on Capital Requirements Directives has been postponed until the May session, to leave a little time for the negotiations with the Council.
Report: Skinner - Taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance
Votes (until noon)
Joint debate - Transport
Recommendation: Mathieu Grosch - Access to the market for transport services by coach and bus; Recommendation: Silvia-Adriana Þicãu - Conditions to be complied with to pursue the occupation of road transport operator; Recommendation: Mathieu Grosch - Access to the market in the international carriage of goods by road
Report: Luis de Grandes Pascual - Ship-source pollution and penalties for infringements
Joint debate - Passenger rights
Report: Michel Teychenné) - Rights of passengers when travelling by sea and inland waterway; Report: Gabriele Albertini - Rights of passengers in bus and coach transport
Question Time (Commission) (6.00pm)
Report: Gilles Savary - The Action Plan on Urban Mobility
Joint debate - Intelligent Transport Systems
Report: Anne E. Jensen - The Intelligent Transport Systems Action Plan
Report: Ulrich Stockmann - Marco Polo II programme
Report: Petr Duchoò - European rail network for competitive freight
Thursday 23 April (9.00am-midnight)
Key debate on health and patients' rights
Report: John Bowis - Patients' rights in cross-border healthcare; Report: Amalia Sartori - Patient safety; Report: Antonios Trakatellis - European action in the field of rare diseases
Votes (at noon)
Debates on current issues (3.00pm)
Council and Commission statements - Conclusions of the G20 summit
Situation in Moldova. This point was added to the agenda on Thursday by the Conference of Presidents of the Political Groups, which also decided to send a fact finding mission to Moldova. The vote on a resolution will be in May in an effort to take into account the observations made during the mission.
Joint debate - Western Balkans
Report: Anna Ibrisagic - Consolidating stability and prosperity in the Western Balkans; Report: Angelika Beer on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Question Time at Council (6.00pm)
Joint debate - Taxation
Report: Benoît Hamon - Taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments; Report: Cornelis Visser - Common system of value added tax as regards tax evasion linked to import and other cross-border transactions; Report: Sarah Ludford - Problem of profiling, notably on the basis of ethnicity and race, in counter-terrorism
Joint debate - Deforestation, timber products
Commission statement - Addressing the challenges of deforestation
Report: Caroline Lucas - Obligations of operators who place timber and timber products on the market; Report: Bart Staes - Phyto-pharmaceutical products
Friday 24 April 2009 (9.00am-1.00pm)
Report: Raül Romeva i Rueda - Community control system for fisheries; Report: Cornelis Visser - Conservation of fisheries resources
Debates on human rights (until 10.50am)
Women's rights in Afghanistan: support for special court for Sierra Leone; humanitarian situation in Ashraf camp in Iraq.
Votes (at noon). (O.J./transl.rh)