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Weekly European Agenda | 10/01/2022
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10-16 January 2022
Monday 10 January
- EP: IMCO, CONT, JURI
- EC: Timmermans participates in the North Atlantic Council meeting and meets Secretary General of NATO
- EC: Sinkevičius delivers a speech at the webinar ‘Let’s get talking: exploring social value in the circular transition’ on social value in the circular economy
- EC: Breton holds a videoconference call with the President of the Board of Directors of Suez Group
Tuesday 11 January
- EC: Timmermans holds a videoconference call with the Special Representative for Climate Change of China
- EC: Jourová meets via videoconference with Polish judges and lawyers
- EC: Reynders holds a videoconference call with the Vice-President of Meta
- ECB: Balance of payments and international investment position
- CoE: Forthcoming judgments and decisions
Wednesday 12 January
Thursday 13 January
- EP: DEVE, ENVI, LIBE, CULT, AIDA
- EC: Gentiloni participates in the working breakfast of the permanent representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper II)
- EC: Kyriakides visits the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam
- EC: Urpilainen meets with civil society, press and representatives of the government and the Bundestag in Berlin
- EESC: European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- ECB: Publication of the Economic Bulletin
- EIB: Annual Economics Conference 2022
- CoE: Forthcoming judgments and decisions
Saturday 15 January
Institutional Agendas
European Parliament
Monday 10 January
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
Debate: transparency and targeting of political advertising.
Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT)
Debates: partial renewal of members of the Court of Auditors, hearings of ECR, EPP, Renew and S&D, and exchange of views; presentation of the special report by ECA Reporting Member Tony Murphy.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Debates: corporate sustainability reporting – consideration of amendments; exchange of views on better regulation: joining forces to make better laws.
Thursday 13 January
Committee on Development (DEVE)
Debates: access to vaccines in developing countries; the Global Gateway; NDICI Global Europe climate objectives.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI)
Debates: deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing; derogations from certain obligations concerning certain medicinal products for human use; the amount of allowances to be placed in the market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme until 2030; strengthening the CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles in line with the Union’s increased climate ambition; harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence
Votes: General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030; establishing a European Centre for disease prevention and control; authorisation for the placing on the market of products containing, consisting of or produced from genetically modified cotton.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Debates: exchange of views on the Commission proposal for a Council Decision on provisional emergency measures for the benefit of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland; establishment and operation of an evaluation and monitoring mechanism to verify the application of the Schengen acquis and repealing Regulation.
Votes: joint vote JURI-LIBE: Computerised system for communication in cross-border civil and criminal proceedings (e-CODEX system); Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/817 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards determining cases where identity data may be considered as same or similar for the purpose of the multiple identity detection.
Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age (AIDA)
Debates: report on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age.
Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.
European Commission and High Representative
Monday 10 January
Timmermans participates in the North Atlantic Council meeting and meets Secretary General of NATO
Commissioner Frans Timmermans will participate in the North Atlantic Council meeting in Brussels and will meet Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO.
Sinkevičius delivers a speech at the webinar ‘Let’s get talking: exploring social value in the circular transition’ on social value in the circular economy
Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius will deliver a speech at the webinar ‘Let’s get talking: exploring social value in the circular transition’ on social value in the circular economy, via videoconference.
Breton holds a videoconference call with the President of the Board of Directors of Suez Group
Commissioner Thierry Breton will hold a videoconference call with Philippe Varin, President of the Board of Directors of Suez Group.
Tuesday 11 January
Timmermans holds a videoconference call with the Special Representative for Climate Change of China
Commissioner Frans Timmermans holds a videoconference call with Xie Zhenhua, the Special Representative for Climate Change of China.
Jourová meets via videoconference with Polish judges and lawyers
Commissioner Vĕra Jourová meets via videoconference with Polish judges and lawyers.
Reynders holds a videoconference call with the Vice-President of Meta
Commissioner Didier Reynders holds a videoconference call with Nick Clegg, Vice-President of Meta.
Thursday 13 January
Gentiloni participates in the working breakfast of the permanent representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper II)
Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni will participate in the working breakfast of the permanent representatives of the Member States to the EU (Coreper II).
Kyriakides visits the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam
Commissioner Stella Kyriakides will visit the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Urpilainen meets with civil society, press and representatives of the government and the Bundestag in Berlin
Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen will visit Berlin, Germany, and will hold a meeting with the civil society, press and representatives of the government and the Bundestag.
Saturday 15 January
Timmermans participates at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly
Commissioner Frans Timmermans participates at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
An overview of the Commission College can be found here; the Commissioners’ weekly activities can be found here; the agenda of upcoming College meetings can be found here; Commission events can be found here.
European Economic and Social Committee
Thursday 13 January
European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
The aim of the event is to discuss the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) proposal and gather input from other EU Institutions, civil society, social partners and health professionals, which will feed into the EESC’s opinion.
More information about EESC events can be found here.
The agendas of the different EESC meetings can be found here.
European Central Bank
Tuesday 11 January
Euro area quarterly balance of payments and international investment position
Thursday 13 January
Publication of the Economic Bulletin
More information about ECB events can be found here.
European Investment Bank
Wednesday 12 – Thursday 13 January
Annual Economics Conference 2022
This year’s hybrid conference is about how we can speed up the digital and climate transition, whilst recognising and mitigating these asymmetries. It will bring together the perspectives of policymakers, academia, business and finance, as well as Chief Economists from different private and public sector institutions
The agenda of the EIB can be found here.
Council of Europe
Tuesday 11 January
Forthcoming judgments and decisions
The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing 15 judgments concerning Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania and Russia.
Thursday 13 January
Forthcoming judgments and decisions
The European Court of Human Rights will notify in writing 150 judgments and/or decisions concerning Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.
Find an overview of Council of Europe events here; the PACE diary here; the Congress calendar of events here; information on forthcoming judgments here; the calendar of hearings here; information on Venice Commission events here; the agenda of the Commissioner of Human Rights here; and the Chairmanship agenda here.
