News > Weekly European Agenda | 14/03/2022
Weekly European Agenda | 14/03/2022
If you would like to receive a summary of each week’s institutional agenda in your inbox every Monday, sign up here.
14 – 20 March 2022
Monday 14 March
- EP: ENVI, CONT, ECON, AFET, INTA, CULT
- CoM: Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council
- CoM: Eurogroup
- EC: Hahn receives Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands
- EESC: Competition Policy and Social Sustainability
- Presidency: Ministerial Conference on the Mental Health of Vulnerable Young People
- FRA: Fundamental rights training to EU Agencies
- ECB: Eurogroup
Tuesday 15 March
- EP: FEMM, ITRE, CONT, AFET, JURI, PETI, ENVI, TRAN
- CoM: Economic and Financial Affairs Council
- CoM: Informal video conference of ministers of health
- EC: College meeting
- EESC: What competitiveness will look like in the new European growth model
- EESC: Civil Society Days 2022
- Presidency: Ministerial Conference on the Mental Health of Vulnerable Young People
- Presidency: Linguistic diversity and the French language in the European institutions
- ECB: ECOFIN meeting
- EIB: EIB/SEB Investment Seminar – Recovery as a Springboard for Change: a Swedish Perspective – transition at a time of conflict
Wednesday 16 March
- EP: AFCO, LIBE, DROI, PECH, ENVI, FEMM
- EC: College meeting
- EC: Šuica participates in an exchange of views with LIBE Committee
- EESC: Civil Society Days 2022
Thursday 17 March
- EP: DROI, FEMM,EMPL
- CoM: Environment Council
- CoM: Informal ministerial conference of tourism ministers
- EC: Vălean receives Mr Dan Jørgensen, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities
- EESC: Civil Society Days 2022
Friday 18 March
Institutional Agendas
European Parliament
Monday 14 March
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debates: Presentation of the outcome of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment. Report – presentation by Prof. Dr Hans-Otto PÖRTNER, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Debates: Mismanagement of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) in Bulgaria – The Guesthouses investigation – Exchange of views with OLAF representatives.
Jointly with Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE): ECA Special Report 02/2022: Energy efficiency in enterprises – Some energy savings but weaknesses in planning and project selection – Presentation of the special report by reporting ECA Member Samo Jereb.
Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Votes: Markets in Crypto-assets, Competition policy.
Debates: Exchange of views with Aurel SCHUBERT, Chair of the European Statistical Governance Advisory Board. (ESGAB) following the publication of the Board’s Annual Report; Public hearing with Elke KÖNIG, Chairperson of the Single Resolution Board (SRB).
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Debates: In association with the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo (DSEE): Exchange of views with Christian SCHMIDT, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Public Hearing: “Transatlantic cooperation following Russian aggression on Ukraine”.
Committee on International Trade
Debates: Foreign subsidies distorting the internal market; INTA Committee delegation visit to Mexico City, Mexico; Anti-coercion instrument in the EU Trade Defence.
Votes: Providing macro-financial assistance to the Republic of Moldova.
Committee on Culture and Education
Debates: E-sport and videogames – exchange of views with the participation of experts preparing a research paper on the topic; Exchange of views with the European Audiovisual Observatory.
Tuesday 15 March
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Debates: Jointly with the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI): Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Debates: Presentation by Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson of the REPowerEU Communication; Presentation by the Commission of the hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package; Exchange of views with the Commission on the latest technological breakthroughs in nuclear fusion.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Votes: The Commission’s 2021 Rule of Law report.
Debates: Current state of play with regard to Slovenian participation in the European Public Prosecutor Office (EPPO). Exchange of views with Laura Codruța Kövesi, European Chief Prosecutor; Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Debates: Situation following Russia’s aggression and invasion of Ukraine – Exchange of views with EEAS and the Commission on international implications and consequences for the affected population; Report on the 2021 Commission Report on Montenegro. In association with the Delegation for relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo (DSEE) : Exchange of views with the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina -Željko KOMŠIĆ; – Šefik DŽAFEROVIĆ; Milorad DODIK and Dragan ČOVIĆ, Speaker of the House of Peoples of the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Votes: Towards an EU strategy to promote education for children in the world: mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic; The EEAS’s Climate Change and Defence Roadmap; The persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion.
Committee on Legal Affairs
Votes: Amending Directive 2013/34/EU, Directive 2004/109/EC, Directive 2006/43/EC and Regulation (EU) No 537/2014, as regards corporate sustainability reporting (COD), adoption of amendments.
Debates: Harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts.
Debates: Presentation of the annual report 2021 and work programme 2022 of the EP Coordinator on Children’s Rights; Workshop on better regulation.
Committee on Petitions
Debates: Jointly with the Committee on Legal Affairs: Hearing on EU Green Prosecutor – a common toolbox for fighting environmental crime.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debates: Exchange of views with the Commission and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in view of the upcoming draft implementing act reserving certain antimicrobials for treatment of infection in humans.
Votes: Amending Decision (EU) 2015/1814 as regards the amount of allowances to be placed in the market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme until 2030 (2021/0202(COD)); Harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts (2021/0106(COD)); Commission Regulation amending Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for flutianil in or on certain products (2022/2524(RPS)).
Committee on Transport and Tourism
Debates: Exchange of views with Adina Vălean, Commissioner for Transport on the Structured Dialogue; Exchange of views with Josef Doppelbauer, Executive Director of the European Railway Agency (ERA).
Wednesday 16 March
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Debates: Study on “Towards a revision of the Regulation on the statute and funding of European political parties and foundations”.
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Debates: Exchange of views with Eamon GILMORE, European Union Special Representative for Human Rights; Exchange of views with the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla DENISOVA; Exchange of views on addresssing and preventing intolerance, discrimination and hate crimes throughout the OSCE region, in the presence of Mona RISHMAWI, Branch Chief – Rule of Law, Equality and Non Discrimination Branch, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; Christie EDWARDS, Deputy Head of Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department, OSCE – Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), Isabella SARGSYAN, Program Director, Eurasia Partnership Foundation (Armenia). In association with the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan: Early and forced marriages in Afghanistan; Exchange of views with Stephanie SINCLAIR, photographer and Founding Executive Director of Too Young To Wed and- Alice AKUNGA, Deputy Representative of Afghanistan Country Office, UNICEF.
Committee on Fisheries
Votes: Certain provisions for fishing in the GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) Agreement area (recast) (2021/0248(COD)).
Debates: Toward a sustainable blue economy in the EU: the role of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors (2021/2188(INI)); Workshop on impacts of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement on fisheries and aquaculture in the EU; Consequences of the invasion of Ukraine for the fisheries and aquaculture sector: state aid guidelines and other measures.
Joint meeting of Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Debates: Establishing a Social Climate Fund.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Votes: Jointly with the Committee on Legal Affairs: Gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges – Vote on the decision to enter into interinstitutional negotiations.
Hearing: Fighting climate change: gender perspective and feminist solutions -European Parliament side-event in the 66th session of the UN CSW.
Thursday 17 March
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Debates: In association with the delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries: Exchange of views on the fight against impunity in Syria, 11 years after the uprising, in the presence of ‘Little Palestine’ film director Abdallah AL KHATIB and producer Mohammad ALI ATASSI; Simone SUSSKIND, Former Federal Senator, founder of CSO Actions in the Mediterranean; Hussein SABBAGH, Secretary General of Euro-Syrian Democratic Forum.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Votes: Jointly with the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL): Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms.
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Votes: Strengthening the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms.
Debates: Exchange of views with Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights Nicolas Schmit on the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine on the labour market and social protection in the EU and possible actions to be taken.
Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.
Council of Ministers
Monday 14 March
Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council
EU social affairs ministers will discuss how to improve the gender balance in the boardroom. Ministers will seek to agree on a general approach regarding the proposed directive on the gender balance on corporate boards. Ministers will also review the annual European Semester. Ministers will also discuss conclusions on annual sustainable growth with the aim to adopt these conclusions. Ministers will also discuss the draft Joint Employment Report for 2022 with a view to adoption. Ministers will hold a policy debate on discrimination in employment. Any other business will include information provided by the presidency on the upcoming Social Tripartite Summit.
Eurogroup
Ministers will discuss fiscal policy coordination for 2023, with a view to safeguarding the economic recovery in the euro area. The Eurogroup will also take stock of the economic situation arising from Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and other key macroeconomic developments having influence on budgetary planning for 2023. They will also discuss the thirteenth enhanced surveillance report on Greece, as well as the way forward to agree on a work plan for all outstanding elements of the Banking Union, ahead of the March Euro Summit. The Eurogroup will also prepare the Euro Summit that will take place on 24-25 March 2022.
Tuesday 15 March
Economic and Financial Affairs Council
The Economic and Financial Affairs Council will gather to discuss the EU budget as well as economic recovery.
Informal video conference of ministers of health
The ministers of health will gather in an informal video conference meeting.
Thursday 17 March
Environment Council
EU environment ministers will seek agreement on a general approach on a new regulation on batteries and waste batteries. The Council will hold a policy debate on the five files of the ‘Fit for 55’ legislative package, which fall under the remit of the Environment Council. Ministers will also exchange views on the process of ensuring that the macroeconomic policies within the European Semester are sustainable.
Thursday 17 March – Friday 18 March
Informal ministerial conference of tourism ministers
During this meeting, which will address European tourism within Europe, the tourism ministers for the 27 EU Member States will discuss the transformation of tourism in the context of the post-COVID-19 recovery and the role of Member States in supporting this industry. The European Commission will also contribute to this conference and present the final version of the transition pathway for tourism.
An overview of planned Council meetings can be found here.
European Commission and High Representative
Monday 14 March
Hahn receives Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands
Commissioner Johannes Hahn will receive Sigrid Kaag, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands.
Wednesday 16 March
College meeting
The College of Commissioners will convene on Wednesday to present the Central Securities Depositories Review.
Šuica participates in an exchange of views with LIBE Committee
Vice-President Dubravka Šuica will participate in an exchange of views with LIBE Committee on the implementation of the EU Strategy on Children’s rights.
Thursday 17 March
Vălean receives Mr Dan Jørgensen, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities
Commissioner Adina Vălean will receive Mr Dan Jørgensen, Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Utilities.
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
Monday 14 March
Competition Policy and Social Sustainability
The European Economic and Social Committee’s NAT and INT Sections, the Fair Trade Advocacy Office and the Global Competition Law Centre of the College of Europewill organise an online conference to continue the debate on how joint sustainability initiatives can be competition law compliant.
Tuesday 15 March
What competitiveness will look like in the new European growth model
The conference “What competitiveness will look like in the new European growth model” organised by the Employers’ Group will try to answer the questions “How do we achieve a Europe that reconciles the paradox between growth and prosperity on the one hand, and a sustainable future for our planet on the other? How can we guarantee the competitiveness of our companies in this just transition?”.
Tuesday 15 March – Thursday 17 March
Civil Society Days 2022
The EESC will be holding its annual Civil Society Days in March 2022. This flagship civil society conference will bring together citizens, organised civil society and European institutions in an inclusive process to address the major societal challenges the EU currently faces in shaping its future.
More information about EESC events can be found here.
The agendas of the different EESC meetings can be found here.
French Presidency
Monday 14 March – Tuesday 15 March
Ministerial Conference on the Mental Health of Vulnerable Young People
As much a public health as societal issue, the mental health of children, adolescents and young adults in vulnerable situations requires the development of cross-cutting solutions. At this conference of Trio ministers, experts will first formulate proposals for action, then consider which European instruments to mobilise in order to lay the foundations for a European action plan.
Tuesday 15 March
Linguistic diversity and the French language in the European institutions
This conference will focus on the challenges of linguistic diversity in Europe and its role in the creation of European citizenship. The representatives of Member States, the European institutions and civil society will meet during panel discussions. The participants will address several topics, particularly the promotion of multilingualism within the European institutions and reflection on language learning. Operational conclusions and potential solutions will be presented upon conclusion of the discussions, in order to capitalize on this work in the long term.
The agenda of the French Presidency of the Council of the EU can be found here.
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Monday 14 March
Fundamental rights training to EU Agencies
FRA will give training to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex).
Information on upcoming FRA events can be found here.
European Central Bank
Monday 14 March
Eurogroup
Participation by Ms Lagarde and Mr Panetta in Eurogroup meeting.
Tuesday 15 March
ECOFIN meeting
Mr de Guindos will participate in ECOFIN meeting.
More information about ECB events can be found here.
European Investment Bank
Tuesday 15 March
EIB/SEB Investment Seminar – Recovery as a Springboard for Change: a Swedish Perspective – transition at a time of conflict
The conference will focus on investment needs and priorities for Sweden, bringing together a group of economists, policymakers, as well as representatives from financial institutions and the business community.
The agenda of the EIB can be found here.
No comments