European Parliament
Monday 12 February
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Debates: Exchange of views with David Clarinval, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Small Businesses, the Self-Employed, SMEs and Agriculture, Institutional Reform & Democratic Renewal, on the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the field of agriculture; Exchange of views with Valdis Dombrovskis on the impact of trade in EU agriculture; Exchange of views with the Commission on the protection status of wolves.
Tuesday 13 February
Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI)
Votes: Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law); Amending Regulation (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards multiannual survey programmes, notifications concerning the presence of regulated non-quarantine pests, temporary derogations from import prohibitions and special import requirements and establishment of procedures for granting them, temporary import requirements for high risk plants, plant products and other objects, the establishment of procedures for the listing of high risk plants, the content of phytosanitary certificates, the use of plant passports and as regards certain reporting requirements for demarcated areas and surveys of pest.
Debates: Presentation of the study ‘Rural areas – levels of support and impact on competitiveness of farms’, organised by Policy Department B; Exchange of views on Ukraine; Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals; The Committee listens to farmers, exchange of views with European Stakeholders; Exchange of views with the European Food Safety Authority regarding the results of its scientific opinions on the welfare of farmed animals; Exchange of views with the Commission regarding animal diseases: Bluetongue, African swine fever and Epizootic haemorrhagic virus.
Committee on Development (DEVE)
Debates: Establishing an EU talent pool; Humanitarian priorities and challenges for 2024, including preparations for the European Humanitarian Forum; Current challenges for development cooperation from the perspective of civil society organisations.
Committee on Development (DEVE) – Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Debates: The allegations against UNRWA staff and the impact on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Committee on Development (DEVE) – Committee of Foreign Affairs (AFET) – Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Debates: Mid-term report on the implementation of the EU Gender Action Plan III.
Committee on Development (DEVE) – Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Debates: Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Debates: Extending Directive [XXXX] to third country nationals legally residing in a Member State.
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) – Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Votes: Combating violence against women and domestic violence; Amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims.
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
Votes: Harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)
Votes: Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the EEAS on the situation in Syria;
Debates: Exchange of views with Hadja Lahbib, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Federal Cultural Institutions of Belgium; The EU’s preventive diplomacy: Practice makes (not yet) perfect – presentation of an in-depth analysis.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) – Committee on Development (DEVE) – Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI)
Debate: Exchange of views on the situation in Ethiopia.
Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) – Committee on Budget (BUDG)
Debate: Establishing the Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans.
Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI)
Votes: Compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006; European cross-border associations; Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937; Union code relating to medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive 2001/83/EC and Directive 2009/35/EC.
Debates: Harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts; Amending Directive 2013/34/EU as regards the time limits for the adoption of sustainability reporting standards for certain sectors and for certain third-country undertakings; Disputes involving Parliament (Rule 149); Request for the defence of the immunity of Clara Ponsatí Obiols; Request for the defence of the immunity of Eva Kaili; Request for the waiver of the immunity of José Manuel Fernandes; Request for the waiver of the immunity of Paulo Rangel.
Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Debates: Mission report following the Mission to Bogotá, Colombia 19-23 June 2023; Gender Mainstreaming Network.
Wednesday 14 February
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)
Votes: Coordination of social security systems; European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2024; European labour market statistics on businesses, repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 and Regulations (EC) No 450/2003 and (EC) No 453/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Debates: Improving working conditions in platform work; Statistics on population and housing, amending Regulation (EC) No 862/2007 and repealing Regulations (EC) No 763/2008 and (EU) No 1260/2013; Establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities; Exchange of views with Frank Vandenbroucke (Belgian Minister of Social Affairs); Exchange of views with Yves Leterme (Chair of the Steering Board of the European Platform on Combatting Homelessness); Revision of European Works Councils Directive; Establishing an EU talent pool; The draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025.
Committee on Budgets (BUDG)
Votes: European Semester for economic policy coordination 2024; Laying down Union procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human use and establishing rules governing the European Medicines Agency, amending Regulation (EC) No 1394/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 536/2014 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 726/2004, Regulation (EC) No 141/2000 and Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006; 2024 Budget: Section III – Commission; 2024 Budget: Other Sections; Building policy.
Debates: Building policy – exchange of views; Exchange of views with the Budget Committee of the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada); Consent to the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Votes: Preventing plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution.
Debates: Establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act); Measures to reduce the cost of deploying gigabit electronic communications networks and repealing Directive 2014/61/EU (Gigabit Infrastructure Act); Laying down measures to strengthen solidarity and capacities in the Union to detect, prepare for and respond to cybersecurity threats and incidents; Establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’) and amending Directive 2003/87/EC, Regulations (EU) 2021/1058, (EU) 2021/1056, (EU) 2021/1057, (EU) No 1303/2013, (EU) No 223/2014, (EU) 2021/1060, (EU) 2021/523, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697 and (EU) 2021/241; Report back from the EP ad-hoc delegation to the 18th meeting of the UN-convened Internet Governance Forum, Kyoto, Japan, 9-11 October 2023.
Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO)
Debates: Council Presidency; Permanent system for the allocation of seats in the European Parliament; Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure implementing the parliamentary reform “Parliament 2024”; MISSION REPORT of the AFCO mission to Paris (France) – 14 to 15 December 2023.
Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
Votes: Cohesion policy 2014-2020 – implementation and outcomes in the Member States.
Debates: Ensuring compliance with fundamental rights, presentation of a report by the Fundamental Rights Agency on EU funds by Robert Jan Uhl; Cohesion policy in the Outermost regions, Policy Department B study presented by Ambre Maucorps; Reporting back from trilogue on the proposal for a regulation establishing the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (‘STEP’).
Thursday 15 February
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL) – Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)
Votes: Council decision inviting Member States to ratify the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190) of the International Labour Organization.
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)
Debates: Exchange of views with Kadri Simson, Commissioner for Energy, on energy aspects of the latest Commission proposals.
Find an overview of the parliamentary agenda here.
