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Your institutional agenda for the week beginning March 30 2015
European Commission

Commission Agenda
Council of Ministers

Eastern Partnership ministerial conference on tuberculosis and its
multi-drug resistance (MDR), Riga
European Parliament
Committee Meetings
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Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON)
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Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
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Committee on Fisheries (PECH)
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Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
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Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
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Committee on Development (DEVE)
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Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
(ENVI)
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Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

Committee on Budgets (BUDG)

Special Committee on Tax Rulings and Other Measures Similar
in Nature or Effect (TAXE)
European Commission
Commission Agenda
Title of procedure
EU goes to Kuwait International
Pledging Conference with new aid
pledge for Syria
Day
Top News
Commissioners’ Agenda
Description
The European Commission will announce a
significant increase in its pledge to
respond to the deteriorating humanitarian
crisis in Syria, at the Third International
Pledging Conference in Kuwait. At Kuwait II last
year, the EU's combined pledge (Commission
Tuesday and
Member
States)
was
the
biggest
contribution (€550 million), representing one
third of the overall amount pledged.
The consolidated EU amount, including funding
from Member States, is currently being finalised
but is set to exceed the 2014 pledge.
*Note this list is indicative and subject to change
Council of Ministers
Eastern Partnership
ministerial conference on
tuberculosis and its multidrug resistance (MDR), Riga
MondayDraft Agenda
Tuesday
The Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis will bring together Ministers and high-level officials from
national governments, international and non-governmental organisations with the stated intention of
ending tuberculosis as a public health challenge in the EU/EEA and Eastern Partnership countries
through a sustainable response by health systems involving all stakeholders, and to support
tuberculosis prevention and control globally.
*Note this is based on the initial draft agenda
European Parliament
Committee Meetings
Committee on
Economic and
Monetary Affairs
(ECON)
Tuesday
Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
MEP
Type of
procedure
Exchange of views with
Angel Gurría, SecretaryGeneral of the OECD
-
-
-
Ordinary
Cora van
Legislative
Nieuwenhuizen Procedure,
(ALDE)
First
Reading
Indices used as
benchmarks in financial
ECON
instruments and financial
contracts
Stage of
procedure
Link
-
-
Adoption of draft
Oeil
report
Exchange of views with
Pascal Saint-Amans,
Director of Centre for Tax
Policy and
Administration at the
OECD
-
-
-
-
-
Public Hearing with
Danièle Nouy, Chair of
the Supervisory Board of
the ECB
-
-
-
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Tax avoidance and tax
evasion as challenges for
governance, social
DEVE
protection and
development in
developing countries
Hugues Bayet
(S&D)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
Committee on
Women’s Rights and Monday
Tuesday
Gender Equality
(FEMM)
Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
MEP
Type of
procedure
Lead
With the Council and
Commission - Workshop
- Main Causes of Female
Poverty
With the Council and
Commission - The EU
Strategy for equality
between women and
men post 2015
-
-
-
Stage of
procedure
-
Link
Report
FEMM
Maria Noichl
(S&D)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
amendments
Oeil
ECON
Sirpa
Pietikäinen
(EPP)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - The
situation of fundamental LIBE
rights in the European
Union (2013-2014)
Daniela Aiuto
(EFDD)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - The
security challenges in the
AFET
MENA region and the
prospects for political
stability
Maria Arena
(S&D)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - Activities
and supervision of
institutions for
occupational retirement
provision (recast)
With the Council and
Commission - Chair’s
announcements
concerning coordinators’
recommendations
-
-
-
-
Investment for jobs and
growth: promoting
economic, social and
REGI
territorial cohesion in the
Union
Julie Girling
(ECR)
Own
Initiative
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
The current political
situation in Afghanistan
Own
Mariya Gabriel
Initiative
(EPP)
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
AFET
-
Gender Mainstreaming
Amendments Regulatory Fitness and
Performance Programme
(REFIT): State of Play
and Outlook
-
Maria Arena
(S&D)
-
Adoption of
amendments
-
Gender Mainstreaming
Amendments - Towards
an integrated approach
to cultural heritage for
Europe
-
Silvia Costa
(S&D)
-
Adoption of
amendments
-
Presentation of the
European
Implementation
Assessment of Directive
2006/54/EC produced by
the Directorate General
for Parliamentary
Research Services -
-
-
Exchange of
views
-
-
Presentation by Prof
Burri (Utrecht), Prof
Corsi (Rome), Prof
Szelewa (Warsaw), Dr
Brosi / Schwarzmüller
(Munich)
Report on the application
of Directive 2006/54/EC
of the European
Parliament and of the
Council of 5 July 2006 on
the implementation of
FEMM
the principle of equal
opportunities and equal
treatment of men and
women in matters of
employment and
occupation
Presentation of the
European
Implementation
Assessment of Directive
2010/18/EU on parental
leave, produced by the
Directorate General for
Parliamentary Research
Services - Presentation
by Prof Szelewa
(Warsaw)
Own
Anna Záborská
Initiative
(EPP)
Report
-
-
-
Committee on
Fisheries (PECH)
Monday
Tuesday
Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
MEP
Type of
procedure
Consideration of
draft report
Oeil
Exchange of
views
-
Stage of
procedure
Link
With the Council and
Commission - Untapping
the potential of Research
ITRE
and Innovation in the
Blue Economy to create
Jobs and Growth
Own
Isabelle
Initiative
Thomas (S&D)
Report
Exchange of
views
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - Fishing
opportunities and the
financial contribution
provided for in the
Fisheries Partnership
Agreement between the
European Community
and the Republic of
Madagascar
PECH
InterInstitutional
Ricardo Serrão
Exchange of
NonSantos (S&D)
views
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - An EU
strategy for the Adriatic
and Ionian region
REGI
Norica Nicolai
(ALDE)
Own
Initiative
Report
Exchange of
views
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - Protocol
setting out the fishing
opportunities and the
financial contribution
provided for in the
Fisheries Partnership
Agreement between the
European Union and the
Republic of Cape Verde
PECH
Peter van
Dalen (ECR)
InterInstitutional
NonLegislative
Procedure
Exchange of
views with
Commission
representatives
Oeil
With the Council and
Commission - Protocol
agreed between the EU
PECH
João Ferreira
(GUE/NGL)
InterExchange of
Institutional
views
Non-
Oeil
and the Republic of
Guinea-Bissau setting
out fishing opportunities
and the financial
contribution provided for
in the Fisheries
Partnership Agreement
between the two parties
currently in force
Legislative
Procedure
With the Council and
Commission - The
granting of fishing
opportunities in EU
waters to fishing vessels
PECH
flying the flag of
Venezuela in the
exclusive economic zone
off the coast of French
Guiana
João Ferreira
(GUE/NGL)
With the Council and
Commission - Trade in
seal products
IMCO
Ordinary
Legislative
Carlos Iturgaiz
Procedure,
(EPP)
First
Reading
PECH
Jarosław
Wałęsa (EPP)
With the Council and
Commission Multiannual plan for the
stocks of cod, herring
and sprat in the Baltic
Sea and the fisheries
exploiting those stocks
InterInstitutional
NonLegislative
Procedure
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Exchange of
views with
Commission
representatives
Oeil
Exchange of
views with
Commission
representatives
Oeil
Adoption of draft
Oeil
report
Presentation by the
Commission of delegated
and implementing acts
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-
Presentation by Policy
Department B of the
study on 'Alternatives to
drift-net fishing' by
Antonello Sala
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-
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Presentation by Policy
Department B of the
study on 'Criteria for
allocating fishing
opportunities in the
European Union' by Kim
Stobberup
-
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-
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-
Committee on
Employment and
Social Affairs
(EMPL)
Wednesday Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
MEP
Type of
procedure
Single-member private
limited liability
companies
Proposal for a directive
of the European
Parliament and of the
Council on seafarers
amending Directives
2008/94/EC,
2009/38/EC,
2002/14/EC, 98/59/EC
Stage of
procedure
Link
JURI
Ordinary
Legislative
Jutta Steinruck
Procedure,
(S&D)
First
Reading
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
EMPL
Ordinary
Elisabeth
Legislative
Morin-Chartier Procedure,
(EPP)
First
Reading
Adoption of draft
Oeil
report
and 2001/23/EC
European Fund for
Strategic Investments
BUDG,
ECON
Danuta
Jazłowiecka
(EPP)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
The review of the
economic governance
framework: stocktaking
and challenges
ECON
Anne Sander
(EPP)
Own
Initiative
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
Laura Agea
(EFDD)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
Recommendations to the
European Commission on
the negotiations for the
INTA
Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership
(TTIP)
Marian Harkin
(ALDE)
Own
Initiative
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
Reducing inequalities
with a special focus on
child poverty
EMPL
Inês Cristina
Zuber
(GUE/NGL)
Own
Initiative
Report
Exchange of
views with
stakeholders
Oeil
Family Businesses in
Europe
ITRE
Zdzisław
Krasnodębski
(ECR)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
Annual reports 20122013 on subsidiarity and JURI
proportionality
Own
Helga Stevens
Initiative
(ECR)
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
The EU Strategy for
equality between women FEMM
and men post 2015
Agnieszka
Own
KozłowskaInitiative
Rajewicz (EPP) Report
Consideration of
amendments
Oeil
Committee on
Foreign Affairs
(AFET)
Monday
Tuesday
Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
MEP
Type of
procedure
Stage of
procedure
Link
Consideration of
draft report
Oeil
Personal protective
equipment
IMCO
The security challenges
in the MENA region and
AFET
the prospects for political
stability
Own
Vincent Peillon
Initiative
(S&D)
Report
In association with the
Subcommittee on
Security and Defence and
the Delegation for
relations with the NATO
Parliamentary Assembly
- Exchange of views with
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO
Secretary General
-
-
-
-
-
In association with the
Subcommittee on
Security and Defence Exchange of views with
Gilles de Kerchove, EU
Counter-Terrorism
Coordinator
-
-
-
-
-
Use of Passenger Name
Record data (EU PNR)
LIBE
Ordinary
Legislative
Arnaud
Procedure,
Danjean (EPP)
First
Reading
Consideration
Oeil
Jointly with the
Committee on Industry,
Research and Energy Conference on Research
Projects in the
neighbourhood
-
-
-
-
Draft
Programme
In camera - Exchange of
views with Lars Gunnar
Wigemark, newly
appointed EU Special
Representative and Head
of the EU Delegation in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
(in compliance with the
Declaration on Political
Accountability of the
VP/HR)
-
-
-
-
-
AFET
Anneli
Jäätteenmäki
(ALDE)
InterInstitutional
Consideration of
Nondraft report
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
AFET
Sabine Lösing
(GUE/NGL)
Own
Initiative
Report
Oeil
Protocol to the
Partnership and
Cooperation Agreement
establishing a
AFET
partnership between the
EC and Russia to take
account of the accession
of Croatia to the EU
Gabrielius
Landsbergis
(EPP)
InterInstitutional
Adoption of
Nonamendments
Legislative
Procedure
Recommendations to the
European Commission on
the negotiations for the
INTA
Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership
(TTIP)
Francisco José Own
Millán Mon
Initiative
(EPP)
Report
Framework Agreement
between the EU and the
Republic of Azerbaijan
The current political
situation in Afghanistan
Committee on
Development
(DEVE)
Tuesday
Agenda
Wednesday
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
Type of
procedure
MEP
Consideration of
draft report
Oeil
Adoption of
amendments
Oeil
Stage of
procedure
Link
Election of the Third
Vice-Chair
-
-
-
-
-
Adoption of
Coordinators' decisions
and recommendations Consideration and
approval of Coordinators'
decisions and
recommendations of 24
February 2015
-
-
-
-
-
Announcements by the
Commission - Statement
by the Commission
(possibly)
-
-
-
-
-
The Ebola Crisis: the
long-term lessons and
how to strengthen health
DEVE
systems in developing
countries to prevent
future crises
Charles
Goerens
(ALDE)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
working
document
Oeil
Financing for
Development
Pedro Silva
Pereira (S&D)
DEVE
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft report and
amendments
Oeil
The effects of cyclone
PAM on Vanuatu - EU
response - Exchange of
views with Susanne
Mallaun, Head of Unit
(Asia, Latin America,
Caribbean, Pacific),
European Commission
DG ECHO
-
-
-
-
-
EU Budget support Presentation by
Fernando Frutuoso de
Melo, Director General,
European Commission
DG DEVCO (International
Cooperation and
Development)
-
-
-
-
-
Jointly with the
Committee on Civil
Liberties, Justice and
Home Affairs (LIBE) The nexus between
development and
migration
-
-
-
Exchange of
views
-
EU Member States'
commitments to Official
Development Assistance
(ODA)
DEVE
Linda McAvan
(S&D)
Resolution
on Topical
Subject
Adoption of Oral
Question
Oeil
Follow up to the
European Citizens'
Initiative Right2Water
ENVI
Cristian Dan
Preda (EPP)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
EU-Africa relations Exchange of views with
Nick Westcott, Director
for Africa, EEAS
-
-
-
-
-
Tax avoidance and tax
evasion as challenges for
governance, social
DEVE
protection and
development in
developing countries
Elly Schlein
(S&D)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft report
Oeil
Trade, Development and
Cooperation Agreement
between the European
Community and its
Member States, of the
DEVE
one part, and the
Republic of South Africa,
of the other part, to take
account of the accession
of Croatia to the EU
Davor Ivo
Stier (EPP)
InterInstitutional Consideration of
Nondraft report and
Legislative amendments
Procedure
Oeil
Committee on
Environment, Public Monday
Tuesday
Health and Food
Safety (ENVI)
Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
MEP
Type of
procedure
Interparliamentary
Committee Meeting:
"From COP 21 Paris to
2050: a roadmap
Lead
-
-
-
Stage of
procedure
-
Link
Draft
Agenda
towards an innovative
low-carbon, resourceefficient Europe"
Presentation on the state
and outlook of Europe's
environment 2015 (SOER
2015) by the European
Environment Agency
(EEA)
-
-
-
-
-
Conclusion of the Doha
Amendment to the Kyoto
Protocol to the United
Nations Framework
ENVI
Convention on Climate
Change and the joint
fulfilment of
commitments thereunder
Elisabetta
Gardini (EPP)
InterInstitutional
Consideration of
Nondraft report
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
Agreement concerning
Iceland's participation in
the second commitment
period of the Kyoto
ENVI
Protocol to the UN
Framework Convention
on Climate Change
Giovanni La
Via (EPP)
InterInstitutional
Consideration of
Nondraft report
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
Amendment to Directive
94/62/EC on packaging
and packaging waste to
reduce the consumption
of lightweight plastic
carrier bags
ENVI
Margrete
Auken
(Greens/EFA)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
Second
Reading
Adoption of draft
recommendation
Oeil
for second
reading
Safer healthcare in
Europe: improving
patient safety and
fighting antimicrobial
resistance
ENVI
Piernicola
Pedicini
(EFDD)
Own
Initiative
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
report
ENVI
Alberto Cirio
(EPP)
Glenis
Willmott
(S&D)
Marcus Pretzell
(ECR)
Resolution
José Inácio
on Topical
Faria (ALDE)
Subject
Younous
Omarjee
(GUE/NGL)
Piernicola
Pedicini
(EFDD)
Adoption of
motion for a
resolution further Oeil
to a question for
oral answer
Limitation of emissions
of certain pollutants into
ENVI
the air from medium
combustion plants
Ordinary
Legislative
Andrzej Grzyb
Procedure,
(EPP)
First
Reading
Consideration of
amendments
Oeil
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Consideration of
draft opinion
Oeil
Alcohol strategy
Manufacture, placing on
the market and use of
medicated feed and
repealing Council
Directive 90/167/EEC
Exchange of views with
Mr Jyrki Katainen, VicePresident of the
European Commission in
charge of Jobs, Growth,
Investment and
Competitiveness, on the
Norbert Lins
(EPP)
AGRI
-
-
-
-
-
2015 Commission Work
Programme and the
priorities for 2016, in the
context of the structured
dialogue
Committee on Civil
Liberties, Justice
and Home Affairs
(LIBE)
Monday
Tuesday
Agenda
Wednesday
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
Type of
procedure
Hearing on the situation
of fundamental rights in
the European Union
MEP
-
-
-
Stage of
procedure
-
Link
Draft
Programme
Conditions of entry and
residence of thirdcountry nationals for the
purposes of research,
studies, pupil exchange,
LIBE
remunerated
and unremunerated
training, voluntary
service and au pairing
[Recast]
Cecilia
Wikström
(ALDE)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Presentation of
the state of play
of the on-going
trilogue
negotiations
Oeil
The situation of
fundamental rights in the
LIBE
European Union (20132014)
Laura Ferrara
(EFDD)
Own
Initiative
Report
Consideration of
draft report
Oeil
Smart borders package Adoption of question for
oral answer to the
LIBE
European Commission
and Council of the
European Union
Strengthening of certain
aspects of the
presumption of
innocence and of the
right to be present at
trial in criminal
proceedings
-
Resolution
on Topical
Subject
-
Oeil
Nathalie
Griesbeck
(ALDE)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Adoption of draft
Oeil
report
Recommendations to the
European Commission on
the negotiations for the
INTA
Transatlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership
(TTIP)
Jan Philipp
Albrecht
(Greens/EFA)
Own
Initiative
Report
Adoption of draft
Oeil
opinion
Accession of Croatia to
the Convention of 26 May
1997 on the fight against
corruption involving
LIBE
officials of the European
Communities or officials
of Member States of the
European Union
Filiz
Hyusmenova
(ALDE)
InterInstitutional
Consideration of
Nondraft report
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
Accession of Croatia to
the Convention of 29 May
2000 on
Mutual Assistance in
LIBE
Criminal Matters
between the Member
States of the
European Union
Birgit Sippel
(S&D)
InterInstitutional
Consideration of
Nondraft report
Legislative
Procedure
Oeil
Dissemination of Earth
Josef
Ordinary
Oeil
LIBE
ITRE
Presentation by
observation satellite data
for commercial purposes
Weidenholzer
(S&D)
Question for written
answer to the
Commission of 1st
December 2014 on the
revision of the ‘Blue
Card’ Directive by
Nathalie Griesbeck and
Cecilia Wikström (E010039-14)
-
-
Art. 29 Working party Working document on
surveillance of electronic
communications for
intelligence and national
security purposes of 5
December 2014
-
Study "National security
and secret evidence in
legislation and before
the courts: exploring the
challenges"
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
the Commission,
Exchange of
views
-
Exchange of
views pursuant to
Rule 130(4) of
the EP Rules of
Procedure
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Study on the feasibility
of the creation of a
European System of
Border Guards to control
the external borders of
the Union (ESBG)
-
-
-
-
-
FRONTEX - The European
Agency for the
Management of
Operational Cooperation
at the External Borders
of the Member States of
the EU
 Presentation of the
Annual Risk Analysis
by the Executive
Director of Frontex,
Fabrice Leggeri
 Presentation of the
Annual Work
Programme 2015 by
the Executive
Director of Frontex,
Fabrice Leggeri
-
-
-
-
-
Mission to FRONTEX
(Warsaw, Poland) on
16/17 February 2015
-
-
-
Consideration of
a draft delegation
report
-
-
-
Draft additional Protocol
supplementing the
Council of Europe
Convention on the
Prevention of Terrorism
pursuant to Article 218
TFEU (“foreign fighters”,
CETS No. 196)
-
-
-
Presentation of
the Commission
recommendations
for a Council
decision in order
to authorise the
opening of
negotiations
Jointly with the
Committee on
Development (DEVE) The nexus between
development and
migration
-
-
-
-
Committee on
Budgets (BUDG)
Wednesday Agenda
Meeting
Documents
Title of procedure
Lead
Type of
procedure
MEP
Stage of
procedure
Link
Amendment of
Regulation (EU,
Euratom) No 1311/2013
laying down the
BUDG
multiannual financial
framework for the years
2014-2020
Jan Olbrycht
(EPP)
Consent
Isabelle
Procedure
Thomas (S&D)
Consideration
and adoption
Oeil
Mobilisation of the
European Globalisation
Adjustment Fund :
BUDG
application
EGF/2014/017 FR/MoryDucros – France
Jean-Paul
Denanot
(S&D)
Budgetary
Procedure
Consideration
and adoption
Oeil
Amending Regulation
(EU) No 1304/2013 on
the European Social
Fund, as regards an
increase of the initial
pre-financing amount
paid to operational
programmes supported
by the Youth
Employment Initiative
EMPL
Jean Arthuis
(ALDE)
Ordinary
Legislative
Procedure,
First
Reading
Consideration
and adoption
Oeil
Green growth
opportunities for SMEs
ITRE
Own
Liadh Ní Riada
Initiative
(GUE/NGL)
Report
Consideration
and adoption
Oeil
2015 Budget: Section III
– Commission
-
Eider
Gardiazabal
Rubial (S&D)
-
Any other
transfer request
-
2015 Budget: Other
Sections
-
Monika
Hohlmeier
(EPP)
-
Any transfer
request
-
Building policy
-
Monika
Hohlmeier
(EPP)
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Any other
request
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BUDGET 2016 - Outcome
of the budgetary trilogue
of 30 March 2015
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BUDGET 2016 - Pilot
Projects and Preparatory
Actions in budget 2015
and 2016
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Eider
Gardiazabal
Rubial (S&D)
José Manuel
Fernandes
(EPP)
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BUDGET 2016 Estimates of revenue and
expenditure for the
BUDG
financial year 2016 Section I – Parliament
Gérard Deprez Budgetary
(ALDE)
Procedure
Special Committee
on Tax Rulings and
Monday
Other Measures
Similar in Nature or
Effect (TAXE)
Agenda
Presentation of
working
document
Consideration of
amendments
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Oeil
Meeting
Documents
Jointly with the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) - Exchange of views
with Pierre Moscovici, Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and
Customs