European Parliament
Monday 20 March
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Debates: Exchange of views on ways to fight human trafficking and organised crime; Exchange of views on the future EU anti-corruption sanctions regime.
Subcommittee on Security and Defence
Debate: Establishing the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act.
Committee on International Trade
Debates: Exchange of views with Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for An Economy that Works for People and Trade Commissioner; State of play of EU-US trade relations – exchange of views with Valdis Dombrovskis, Executive Vice-President for An Economy that Works for People; Amending Regulation (EU) 2020/2170 as regards the application of Union tariff rate quotas and other import quotas to certain products transferred to Northern Ireland.
Tuesday 21 March
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
Debates: Structured dialogue: Exchange views with Commissioner Dalli; Presentation by Commissioner Dalli of the proposal for a directive on strengthening the role and independence of equality bodies.
Public hearing: Deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan – jointly with the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.
Committee on Development
Debates: Development work under changing geopolitical circumstances – exchange of views with Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); Zimbabwe: EU development cooperation and democracy support amid shrinking space for civil society; Prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market; The sustainable use of plant protection products and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.
Public hearing: Giving opportunities: job creation and decent work to eradicate poverty.
Committee on International Trade
Debates: Trade aspects of the recent proposals and policy developments in the area of critical raw materials; Ongoing plurilateral and bilateral negotiations on digital trade and data flows; Temporary trade liberalisation supplementing trade concessions applicable to Ukrainian products under the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part; Amending Decision (EU) 2022/563 as regards the amount of macro-financial assistance to the Republic of Moldova; Providing macro-financial assistance to the Republic of North Macedonia; Trade aspects of the recent proposals following up on “A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age”.
Vote: Protocol Amending the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization.
Committee on Transport and Tourism
Debate: Road Safety Package.
Vote: The New EU Urban Mobility Framework (INI).
Public hearing: Developing green and digital transport at a time of energy-related challenges.
Special Committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation
Debates: Foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation; Interparliamentary committee meeting.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Debate: Exchange of views with Borjana Krišto, Chairwoman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wednesday 22 March
Committee on Budgetary Control
Debate: ECA Special Report 07/2023 on the Design of the Commission’s control system for the RRF – assurance and accountability gap remains at EU level in the new delivery model, despite extensive work being planned.
Votes: Establishing the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act; 2021 discharge: General budget of the EU.
Hearing and vote: Partial renewal of Members of the Court of Auditors.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Debates: Debriefing on the AFET mission to Indonesia and Vietnam; Jointly with the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE): Exchange of views with Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative/Vice-President: One year after the adoption of the strategic compass; 2022 Commission Report on North Macedonia.
Vote: The implementation of civilian CSDP and other EU civilian security assistance.
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Debates: Exchange of views with the Representatives of the Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum; Generational renewal in the EU farms of the future; Labelling of organic pet food.
Votes: Amending Council Regulation No 1217/2009 as regards conversion of the Farm Accountancy Data Network into a Farm Sustainability Data Network; School’s scheme for fruit, vegetables, milk and dairy products foreseen by the Common Market Organisation Regulation.
Public Hearing: Carbon Farming: Practical applications in use in the EU – organised jointly with the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI).
Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Debates: The implementation of the Regulations on the European citizens’ initiative (2022/2206); Implementation of “passerelle” clauses in the EU Treaties; Study on “Special legislative procedures in the Treaties – Institutional balance and sincere cooperation”; Study on “Perspectives for EU governance: between Community method, new-intergovernmentalism and parliamentarisation”; Draft inter-institutional agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the European Central Bank and the European Parliament on structuring the practices for interaction in the area of central banking; Composition of the European Parliament.
Votes: Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning question time, the central rostrum, the blue-card procedure, the explanations of votes, the transparency register and the Ombudsman; Interpretation of Rule 9(6) of the Rules of Procedure: Hearing of the Member concerned in procedures on immunity.
Public Hearing: Possible Treaty changes in the area of foreign and security policy – with AFET associated.
Committee on Petitions
Debate: Workshop on the impact of climate change on social security and the most vulnerable groups.
Votes: Mission report following the fact-finding visit to Poland; Mission report following the fact-finding visit to Washington.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debates: Ambient air quality and cleaner air for Europe; Exchange of views with Director of the Health and Food Audits and Analysis; Amending Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy, Directive 2006/118/EC on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration and Directive 2008/105/EC on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy (2022/0344); Amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures.
Votes: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2009/148/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work; Labelling of organic pet food.
Public Hearing: Carbon Farming: Practical applications in use in the EU – jointly with the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debates: Protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings; LIBE Working Group on Schengen Scrutiny; EU Justice and Home Affairs Agencies’ Network (JHAAN): report on 2022 activities and priorities for cooperation in 2023; Presentation of the quantitative data on Gender Mainstreaming as a follow up to the Action Plan; Presentation of the Operational strategy for more effective returns and state-of-play on the implementation of the 2021 Strategy on voluntary return and reintegration.
Joint meeting of the Committee on Development and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debate: Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Thursday 23 March
Joint meeting of Committee on Budgetary Control and Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debate: The Annual Report 2022 of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO).
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Debates: Exchange of views with Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski, responsible for Agriculture, in the framework of the Structured Dialogue; Exchange of views with the Commission on Organic salt.
Committee on Budgetary Control
Debates: The Annual Report 2022 of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) – Joint meeting with Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE); ECA SR 02/2023 – Adapting cohesion policy rules to respond to COVID-19 – Funds used more flexibly, but reflection needed on cohesion policy as a crisis response tool – presentation of the report by ECA reporting Member Iliana IVANOVA – exchange of views with the participation of Members of Committee on Budgets (BUDG), Committee on Regional Development (REGI) and Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (COVI); Preventing EU funds from ending up with individuals or companies tied to the EU-Russia sanctions lists.
Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Debate: Structured dialogue with Virginijus SINKEVIČIUS, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, and presentation of the proposal on Substantiating Green Claims and the outcome of the negotiations of a treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Debate: Latest developments in Poland regarding the judiciary.
Votes: Listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from that requirement; A single application procedure for a single permit for third-country nationals to reside and work in the territory of a Member State and on a common set of rights for third-country workers legally residing in a Member State.
Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.
