Summary

Next week is a mixed committee and political group week in the European Parliament.  Only several committee meetings are scheduled, as Members of the European Parliament (“MEPs”) will spend the majority of their time with their political group, preparing for the plenary week in Strasbourg on February  5 – 8, 2018.

On Monday, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs(“LIBE”) will vote on a motion for a resolution regarding the situation of the rule of law and democracy in Poland, following the European Commission’s decision to trigger Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union.

On Thursday, a public hearing concerning citizens’ rights after Brexit will take place.  MEPs, national experts and activists are expected to discuss the situation following the European Council’s conclusions that sufficient progress has been made in the Brexit negotiations.

During the second half of the week, MEPs will prepare for the upcoming plenary session, scheduled for February 5 – 8, 2018 in Strasbourg.  MEPs will discuss various topics, including geo-blocking, the composition of the European Parliament, emissions trading and the human rights situation in Turkey.

Meetings and Agenda

Monday, January 29, 2018

 Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs jointly with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

18:30 – 20:00

Votes (19:45 – 20:00)

• Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (COD) – Vote on the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations
  • Rapporteurs: Krišjānis KARIŅŠ (EPP, LV) and Judith SARGENTINI (Greens/EFA, NL)
• Commission Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards adding Sri Lanka, Trinidad and Tobago and Tunisia to the table in point I of the Annex (DEA) – Vote on a motion for a resolution (to be confirmed)

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

15:00 – 17:30

• High-Level Commission Expert Group on Radicalisation – discussion with Julian KING, Commissioner for the Security Union (15.00-16.00)
• Article 29 Working Party: Privacy Shield – implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – discussion with Isabelle FALQUE-PIERROTIN, Chairwoman of the Art. 29 Working Party (16.00-17.00)

Vote (17.00-17.10)

• Situation in Poland – Commission decision to activate Article 7, paragraph 1 of the Treaty on European Union (RSP) – vote on a motion for a resolution
  • Rapporteur Claude MORAES (S&D, UK)

End of vote

• Hearing of the candidate for the post of Europol Executive Director – discussion with Catherine DE BOLLE, selected candidate by the Council from a shortlist of candidates proposed by the Management Board (17.10-18.30)

Joint meeting with the Economic Affairs Committee (18.30-20.00)

• Prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (COD) – vote on the provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations (19.45-20.00)
  • Rapporteurs Krišjānis KARIŅŠ (EPP, LV) and Judith SARGENTINI (Greens/EFA, NL)

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

• No meetings of note

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

• No meetings of note

Thursday, February 1, 2018

 Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety

09:00 – 12:30

• Exchange of views with Dr Andrea AMMON, Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
• Exchange of views with the Commission and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Lyme disease

Committee on Transport and Tourism

09:00 – 12:30

• “European Rail Traffic Management System”, presentation of the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report by Ladislav BALKO (Rapporteur) and presentation on “Traffic Management System – the way forward” by the European Commission,  DG MOVE

Committee on Regional Development

09:00 – 12:30

• Debate on the future of cohesion policy after 2020

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

09:00 – 17:30
Joint meeting with the Foreign Affairs and Development Committees (09.00-10.30)

• The global compact on safe, orderly and regular migration – discussion with Michele Klein SOLOMON, Director, Global Compact for Migration, Office of the Director-General of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

Votes (10.30-11.45)

• Annual report on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU in 2016 (INI) – Vote on draft report
  • Rapporteur Frank ENGEL (EPP, LU)

In camera (11.45-12.30)

• State of play of negotiations on status agreements between the EU and third countries for the purpose of actions carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency on the territory of those countries – discussion with Simon Mordue, Deputy Director-General, DG HOME, European Commission

Afternoon (change of meeting room)
14.00-17.30 – Paul Henri Spaak (PHS) 3C50

• Hearing on Citizens’ rights after Brexit – jointly with the Employment and Social Affairs, Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and Petitions Committees