Week Ahead with ECR Group

The European Commission will present proposals for reforming the EU's Common Agricultural Policy, and commissioner Ciolos will participate in a debate with the agriculture committee.

European Council

The parliament will hold a debate with Presidents Barroso and Van Rompuy ahead of next Monday and Tuesday's EU summit. The main topics will be the ongoing Eurozone crisis, the G20 and climate change.

Trade and investment barriers

The international trade committee will vote on a report by ECR trade spokesman Robert Sturdy MEP on barriers to investment and trade.

Single Market hearing

The single market committee will hold a joint hearing with national parliamentarians to discuss ways of making the single market fit for the future.

Piracy hearing

ECR member Peter Van Dalen MEP, Vice-President of the transport committee, will host a joint hearing with the EPP group looking at the threat of piracy and possible solutions.

3rd - 7th October 2011 - Brussels

26th - 29th September 2011 - Strasbourg

Economic Governance 'six-pack'

State of the Union and Eurogroup questions

19th - 23rd September 2011 - Brussels

Employment policies hearing

ECR members Julie Girling MEP and Milan Cabrnoch MEP will host of hearing on EU employment policies, asking if Europe can regain its competitiveness.

Public procurement

The internal markets committee will vote on suggestions for modernising the processes used by public bodies when procuring goods and services.

US Attorney General

US Attorney General Eric Holder will meet with MEPs on the justice and home affairs committee to discuss EU-US cooperation regarding crime and terrorism.

12th - 16th September 2011 - Strasbourg

FRONTEX border agency and Schengen

Libya, Syria and Middle East peace process

5th - 9th September 2011 - Brussels

29th August - 2nd September 2011, Brussels

The economics committee will meet with the ECB President Trichet, Eurogroup President Juncker, Commissioner Rehn and Polish Finance Minister Rostowski to discuss the summer's market turbulence and the ongoing sovereign debt crisis within the Eurozone. Earlier this month Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy called for significant new layers of governance within the Eurozone and said they will propose an EU-wide Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) in September.

Schengen

The commission will present to MEPs its proposals to amend the Schengen code after recent events showed the current system to be outdated and inadequate.

11th - 15th July 2011 - Brussels

Fisheries reform

Sexual exploitation of children online

Offshore oil and gas safety

Honeybees and beekeeping

Polish Presidency

4th - 8th July 2011 - Strasbourg

Hungarian/Polish Presidencies

7-year EU budget

Food labelling

Cross-border traffic offences

25 pan-EU MEPs proposed

Crisis report

Land mines

Energy infrastructure

Debate on Arab uprising, Syria and Yemen

Short selling

27th June - 1st July 2011 - Brussels

New budget proposals published

European Council debate

Dairy farmers

Trichet

20th - 24th June 2011 - Brussels

Economic Governance

Consumer Rights

Summit

CAP reform

2012 budget

ECB

Cohesion policy

14th - 17th June 2011 - Brussels

ECB: hearing of Mario Draghi

EU-Serbia

Offshore oil and gas safety

6th - 10th June 2011 - Strasbourg

Fourth largest group in the European Parliament

Next seven-year budget - time for EU to reflect austerity

European contract law - more red tape for business but questionable benefits to consumers

HGV charging - flexibility for governments to charge lorries for pollution

E.coli outbreak - lessons to be learned?

Question hour with Barroso - G8 summit to be debated

Romanian and Bulgarian Schengen entry - technical formalities met but still concerns

European Arrest Warrant - serious concerns about its application

Business directories - Scams are continuing in the single market

Measuring progress beyond GDP - tangibles outcomes from EU policies

Textile proof of origin - clearer rules for imports

30th May - 3rd June 2011 - Brussels

Financial crisis

Child sexual exploitation

The Fog - film documentary on the Smolensk crash

Grassroots sport hearing

Symposium on conflicting claims to Jerusalem under international law

23rd to 27th May 2011 - Brussels

Next EU multi-annual budget

CAP post 2013

Body scanners

Cross-border traffic offences

Motor bike and quad bike safety

Arrest of Andrzej Poczobut in Belarus

Women in entrepreneurship and business leadership

Electronic publication of EU official journal

ENISA - European Network and Information Security Agency

16th to 20th may 2011

Green Week

9th to 13th May 2011 - Strasbourg

Approval of EU Accounts

EU Representation at the UN

Syria

More Open Trade with Asia

Schengen

Corporate Governance

Radio Spectrum

Small Business

Employment

Textiles

2nd to 6th May 2011 - Brussels

2012 budget

European Contract Law

Turkey

European Arrest Warrant

Mervyn King

Green Week

This week is an external activities week in the European Parliament

18th to 21st April 2011 - Brussels

Crown Prince of Libya

EU budget

Economic Governance package

GDP and beyond

Food Labelling

EP election reforms

MEP code of conduct

Women in management

11th to 15th April 2011 - Brussels

Single Market Act

Smolensk - truth and memory

Investor Compensation

Radio Spectrum

Eurovignette

Textile goods

Swift agreement

4th - 7th April 2011 - Strasbourg

European Council and Barroso Question Time

Single Market

Bluetongue

Fighting violence

Ukraine

Migration flows

Parliament's 2012 budget

European Political Parties

Nuclear safety

Bill Gates

28th March to 3rd April 2011 - Brussels

Hearing: safety of oil and gas drilling

Hearing: What's bugging the bees?

Novel Foods

21st to 25th March 2011 - Brussels

EU summit

Consumer Rights

Trichet

Catherine Ashton

Stability mechanism

Conference on 'Social Rules in Road Transport'

18th March 2011 - Brussels

EU Summit

Credit Rating Agencies

European Neighbourhood Policy

Economic governance

Corporate Governance

Ethiopia

7th - 11th March 2011 - Strasbourg

ECR chairman

Innovative financing - AKA Eurotaxes

2012 and 2013 calendar

Libya

Turkey and Montenegro

Stability mechanism

Women

28th February to 4th March 2011 - Brussels

North Africa and EU migration fluxes

2009 budget discharge

EU Own Resources

21th - 25th February 2011

Green Week

14th - 18th February 2011 - Strasbourg

EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Light commercial vehicles CO2

Europe 2020

Bus and coach transport passenger rights

Community Patent

Pensions

Croatia

Food prices

7th - 13th February 2011 - Brussels

Korea Free Trade

Prince of Wales at carbon summit

Van Rompuy report to MEPs

Trichet

Hearing on promoting women entrepreneurs

Hearing on EU taxes

31st January - 4th February 2011

WEEE

Financial Supervision Authorities

Tunisia

Consumer Rights Directive

Bananas

Iran

Coptic organisations

South Sudan

EU financing

PNR agreements

24th to 28th January 2011 - Brussels

EU-Korea free trade agreement

Economic Governance package

Public procurement

Budget discharge

EU Enlargement

Community Patent

Nordstream

17th to 21st January 2011 - Strasbourg

Hungarian Presidency

Belgian Presidency

Cross-Border Healthcare

Belarus

Attacks on Christians

Dioxin scare

Tunisia

Haiti

10th to 14th January 2011 - Brussels

Belarus

EU Economic Governance

Health inequalities

13th to 17th December 2010

European Council

2011 Budget

Commission Work Programme

Dark Pools

Citizens' Initiative

People Trafficking

Sakharov Prize

Ivory Coast

6th to 10th December 2010 - Brussels

2011 Budget

Dairy

Smolensk hearing

STOA hearing on oil

Innovative financing at a global and European level

Cancun

Enigma

29th November - 3 December 2010 - Brussels

Citizens’ initiative

People trafficking

2011 budget

Montenegro

Beyond GDP for structural funds

22nd November - 25th November 2010 - Strasbourg

Budget 2011

Cancun

Hazardous substances in electrical equipment

Georgia

Ukraine

Iraq

Fishing for flounder and turbot

Bees

15th November - 19th November 2010 - Brussels

Budget 2011

CAP 2020

European sports policy

Demographic Deficit

Ukraine elections

8th - 12th November 2010 - Brussels

Hedge Funds

EU-US summit

Trading in Financial Instruments: Dark pools

Single Market Policy and Single Market Act

PNR counter-terrorism agreement

25th October - 29th October 2010 - Brussels

Pakistan trade

Hedge funds

Cross-border healthcare

Ashton

EU urban agenda

European Heritage Label

Ukrainian Foreign Minister

Women and business leadership

Bees

18th October - 22nd October 2010 - Strasbourg

2011 budget

Maternity leave

2012 calendar - move to save on Strasbourg waste

Standardisation

External Action Service

UN Secretary General

Late Payments

Sakharov Prize

G20 and EU summits

Ukraine

11th October - 15th October 2010

Nuclear Energy hearing

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive

Pakistan

Sheep Tagging

Polish Presidency

US Secretary of State

4th - 8th October 2010 - Brussels

Presentation of the nominations for the 2010 Sakharov Prize

Biodiversity

Maternity leave

Capital Requirements Directive

20th anniversary of German reunification

Police College discharge

Persecution against Christians

27th September - 1st October 2010 - Brussels

2011 EU budget

Light vehicles CO2 emissions

Zuma in Development committee

Late Payments

Standardisation

Patient information

Defence policy meeting

European urban agenda

Agriculture legislative programme

Mackerel wars

Battle of Britain exhibition

20th - 24th September 2010 - Strasbourg

Security of Gas Supply

EU summit debate

Financial Supervision

Medicine safety

Online piracy

Pakistan readmission agreement

13th - 17th September 2010 - Brussels

European Council

Trading in Financial Instruments: Dark pools

European economic governance

European financial supervisors

Banks' capital levels

6th - 10th September 2010 - Strasbourg

State of the Union

Pakistan floods

Roma in France

South Korean Free Trade

Cloning

Animal Testing

Farmers' revenues

Employment guidelines

New media

EU taxes

30th August - 3rd September 2010 - Brussels

Pakistan floods

Human trafficking

Energy Efficiency

Swift

19th July - 30th August - Brussels

Summer recess

12th - 16th July 2010 - Brussels

Security of gas supply

Nato SecGen discusses new strategic concept

Trade with Turkey

EU and smarter cities

Cohesion policy

Women and entrepreneurship

5th - 9th July 2010 - Strasbourg

SWIFT

External Action Service

Spanish and Belgian Presidencies

Economic supervisory authorities

Capital Requirements and bankers' bonuses

Maritime passengers' rights

Bus and coach passengers' rights

Sustainable future for transport

Common Agricultural Policy reform

Industrial Pollution

Timber

Iceland

28th June - 2nd July 2010 - Brussels

Van Rompuy to visit ECR group

SWIFT agreement

External Action Service

Farmers' revenues

Protest against VAT

21st - 25th June 2010 - Brussels

Post-summit debate

EU-Korea trade agreement

The future of standardisation

Journalism and new media

Trichet

Directors' remuneration

Crisis management in banking

Monti in Employment committee

Electronic equipment recycling

E-commerce in the Single Market

7th - 11th June 2010 - Brussels

Millennium Development Goals

Energy hearing

Dutch-Russian International centre youth forum

Equality in employment

Product safety: cooperation with the USA

Presidency Consumer Safety Conference

Vocational education and training

26th - 30th April 2010 - Brussels

Working time for lorry drivers

Fake medicines and medicine side-effects

External Action Service and international trade

Light vehicles emissions

Investigation and prevention of accidents in civil aviation

ECDC director-elect hearing

19th - 23rd April 2010 - Strasbourg

Iceland volcano fallout

Commission Work Programme

EU budget discharge

SWIFT

Passenger Name Records

Maritime transport policy until 2018

Simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy

Haiti

Simplification of Regional Development funding

EU-Canada

12th - 16th April - Brussels

The future of farming after 2013 conference

Hearing on the fiscal crisis

Conflict prevention

5th - 9th April 2010 - Brussels

Outcome of recent EU summit

SWIFT agreement

Refugee resettlement programme

Baltic sea strategy

New EU head of delegation in Washington to face MEPs

Mario Monti in internal market committee

22nd - 26th March 2010 - Brussels

EU summit

Euro area debate

European External Action Service

2008 budget discharge

Tony Blair in development committee

Citizens initiative

Ron Kirk

Maritime transport policy

15th - 19th March 2010 - Brussels

Food labelling

Security of gas supply

Organ donation

CAP Simplification

Simplification of Structural Funds

ECJ Football transfers case

Common Fisheries Policy Reform

8th to 12th March 2010 - Strasbourg

EU Foreign and Security policy

Package Travel Directive

Euronest and Belarus

Financial transaction tax

Anti-counterfeiting trade agreement

Chile

Liberalisation of the Community railway market

Disasters in Madeira, France and Spain

Harbour and Barnier press conference on internal market reports

1st to 5th March 2010 - Brussels

Europe 2020

Mirek Topolanek to attend ECR group

Aviation security charges

USA delegation bureau to visit Washington

Effect of the economic crisis on new EU Member States

22nd to 28th February 2009 - Brussels

EU summit outcome

Ashton - priorities for UN Human Rights Council

Green paper on the Common Fisheries Policy

Financial supervision

Maternity leave

Future of the Maritime transport policy

Simplification of the CAP

Consumer rights

New developments in public procurement

Hearing on aquaculture

Foreign Affairs Council

8th - 12th February 2010 - Strasbourg

Commission vote

SWIFT

EU summit

Body scanners

Ukrainian elections

Opel

Croatia, Turkey and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)

EU - South Korea Free Trade Agreement

Online gambling

Endangered species

Competition Policy 2008

1st - 5th February 2010 - Brussels

Hearing of Kristalina Georgieva

Ukrainian elections

Economic crisis and SMEs

Galileo

Spanish Foreign Minister

Wall of death exhibition

25th - 29th January 2010 - Brussels

Counter-terrorism

Aviation security

Haiti

Maternity Leave

Afghanistan

Inland Shipping

Extension of the Working Time Directive

Budget discharge

Madeleine Albright

Green paper on the CFP

Competition Policy

Agriculture and climate change

Financial supervision

Spanish Presidency - A number of Spanish ministers will visit committees this week. These include:

Meeting with European Shippers Council

18th to 22nd January 2010, Strasbourg

Commissioner hearings

Spanish Presidency

Iran

Iraq

Yemen

Haiti

EU-ACP agreement

11th - 15th January 2010

Commissioner Hearings

EU 2020

14th - 18th December 2009

Question hour - EU in 2020

Professor Monti to ECR group

Transparency

Toy safety

Copenhagen

Georgia, Belarus, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Professional qualifications

WTO debate

2010 budget

Annual fisheries summit

Microfinance

7th - 11th December 2009

European Council

Copenhagen

Czech Commissioner-designate to ECR group meeting

Trichet and Odell to Economics committee

International Leaders Summit

Bildt in foreign affairs

30th November - 4th December 2009

Commissioner Ashton before MEPs

EU-Ukraine summit

EU-China summit

Maternity leave

Alternative Investment Fund Managers (Hedge Funds)

Cross-border healthcare

Private company statute

HIV/Aids seminar

23rd - 26th November 2009

European Council and Question Time

ECR chairman Michal Kaminski will lead for the group in the debate regarding the forthcoming EU summit and in the second 'Question Hour' to Commission President Barroso, which will focus on the informal European Council meeting held last week. Mr Kaminski has congratulated Mr Van Rompuy and Commissioner Ashton on their appointments and has said that the ECR will work with them.

Telecoms Package

ECR chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and rapporteur on part of the telecoms package, Malcolm Harbour, is hoping that the final hurdle will be overcome this week with the adoption of the last report in the package.

Copenhagen summit

The parliament will hold a debate and vote on a resolution ahead of the Copenhagen climate change conference. Although there is doubt as to whether the conference can reach agreement on a legally binding treaty, ECR environment spokesman Miroslav Ouzky, will call for a clear roadmap towards a realistic agreement to emerge.
There will also be a meeting of EU environment ministers on the 23rd.

Stockholm programme

MEPs will adopt a position on the proposed 'Stockholm programme' which sets out Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) priorities for the coming five years. ECR JHA spokesman Timothy Kirkhope opposes much of the programme and will argue that decisions regarding issues such as asylum and policing should remain the preserve of national governments, cooperating closely with their European allies.

Europol and forensics

ECR Justice and Home Affairs spokesman Timothy Kirkhope is author of two reports on the agenda. One is part of a package regarding Europol and confidentiality of information, whilst the other concerns forensic laboratory activities. The ECR supports measures by MEPs to reject these reports so that they can be resubmitted to the parliament when they have a clearer legal base.

Passenger compensation in the event of airline bankruptcy

The parliament will vote on a resolution on protection of passengers if their airline goes into bankruptcy.

Brazilian beef

ECR group agriculture spokesman Jim Nicholson will be taking a tough line with the European Commission if it announces that further Brazilian beef farms are able to export to the EU.
The Brazilian government has been lobbying hard to get their beef back on EU menus after official EU vets ruled that their traceability, slaughtering and animal welfare standards were not up to scratch.
The ECR will be demanding concrete proof that imports from Brazil into the EU are subject to the same stringent standards that EU farmers must abide by.

Tyre labelling

MEPs are expected to endorse an agreement that will see tyres labelled for their efficiency from November 2012. The labels are intended to promote fuel efficiency, greater grip and less noise

16th - 20th November

EU top jobs discussion

EU-Russia summit

Hearing on professional qualifications

Anti-Piracy mission off Somalia

Ringtones

Energy performance of buildings

20th anniversary of the Czech Velvet Revolution

9th - 13th November 2009

Fall of the Berlin wall

Court of Auditors report

Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive hearing

Future of the CAP

Bangladesh

Kurd leader in Foreign Affairs

Stockholm Programme

Ban on liquids onboard aircraft - possible next steps

Security of gas supply

Implementation of Services Directive

2nd - 6th November 2009

EU-US summit

Tuesday sees the EU-US summit at which climate change and the Copenhagen talks, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and trade issues are due to be discussed.

EU-India summit

On Friday the EU will hold a summit with India which will also focus on climate change, and the all-important free-trade agreement between the two sides.

US Homeland Security visit

The US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will attend the parliament's justice and home affairs committee.

Ethics in business

Nirj Deva will host the sixth International Business and Leadership symposium on ethics in business on Thursday. The conference will look at how we overcome the economic crisis through a focus on human values and ethics.

Financial crisis committee

The parliament's new committee on the financial crisis will meet for the first time on Wednesday. The committee will discuss public finances with Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Almunia. In the parliament's employment committee the commissioner will also discuss a communication on the sustainability of public finances and tackling the demographic challenge Europe faces.

Future of the Common Fisheries Policy

Struan Stevenson, ECR Vice-President of the fisheries committee, will be giving a key-note speech to a major conference on the future of the EU's CFP on Wednesday. The conference brings together the seven 'Regional Advisory Councils' who help advise the European Commission on conservation methods.

Telecoms agreement?

MEPs will meet with the Council of Ministers in an effort to find agreement on the proposed Telecoms package. Malcolm Harbour, ECR Chairman of the Internal Market Committee, was the parliament's 'Rapporteur' on part of the package. His report, the Universal Services Directive and the BEREC report, which launches a new body for European Regulators, have already been adopted by the European Council.

'Green week' in the EP

The European Parliament has an 'external activities week' this week, where MEPs hold meetings in their constituencies.

European Council

On Thursday and Friday the EU's head of state and government will meet in Brussels. Among the key issues on the agenda are climate change, the economic and financial situation as well as illegal immigration.

19th - 23rd October 2009

EU summit debate

The parliament will hold a debate ahead of the EU heads of state and government summit on the 29th October. Items due to be discussed at the summit include financial supervision and EU assistance to developing countries to help them counter climate change.

External Action Service

The parliament is due to rush through a report calling for more power for MEPs in the EU diplomatic service that would be created if the Lisbon Treaty were to come into force.

Milk - a commission power grab?

On Monday evening the agriculture committee will decide whether to place an urgent report on the agenda regarding the dairy sector. Under the proposals a member state could buy up milk quota, put it in national reserve and discount it from national quota.

Asylum - commission to determine refugee status

The commission is expected to propose new rules determining who is entitled to refugee status in the EU on Wednesday when it announces plans to standardise qualification rules and asylum procedures.

Climate Change - The challenge for developing countries

The development committee has asked for a debate on climate change and the Copenhagen summit on Tuesday. There will be both council and commission statements but no resolution.

EU's 2010 budget

The EU budget for 2010 will be voted on this Thursday. The European Parliament has voted to restore the figures proposed by the European Commission under most headings and MEPs have proposed additional funds for the economic recovery plan, dairy farmers, the energy sector, small businesses and for the EU's border agency, Frontex.

Transatlantic Relations: debate ahead of November's EU-US summit

On Wednesday the parliament sets out its position ahead of the forthcoming EU-US summit in November. It is expected that there will be a wide-ranging resolution on Copenhagen, Free Trade, conclusions from the Pittsburgh G20 summit and security matters.

Commission's development policy to focus on fragile states

On Thursday the commission will publish its first ever framework for rethinking how the EU deals with the development challenges associated with 'fragile' states in Sub-Saharan Africa where the authorities are unable to perform basic public tasks, which leads to hardship and insecurity and exacerbates crises.

Cutting EU red tape

The commission will publish a report on Thursday updating its programme to reduce administrative costs by 25% by 2012. The commission will give a state of play on existing burdens and look at areas where red tape can be reduced.

12th - 18th October 2009

The final frontier made easier for relatives?

On Wednesday the Commission is expected to adopt a proposal on succession and wills. In a nutshell, there are presently around 8 million European citizens that live in a country other than their own. When a person dies in another country the relatives often face a minefield of varying cross-border succession laws. This can lead to lengthy proceedings and high legal costs.

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