EP News, June 10th, 2005 (No. 216)
Committee meetings 13-17 June 2005
Highlights of the week in committee include:
Issues with a UK-angle:
Public hearings:
Edited committee agenda below, with links to full agenda on www.europarl.eu.int, and working documents on the committees' websites:
| AFET - Foreign Affairs | 14-15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Exchange of views with Mr Luc FRIEDEN, Luxembourg Minister for Defence | - | - | - |
| The European Union and Iraq - a framework for engagement | Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Consideration of amendments; Vote + adoption of draft report |
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With the participation of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, Chairman: Mr Marek Maciej SIWIEC: UKRAINE - Exchange of views with Mr Alexander KWASNIEWSKI, President of Poland and Mr Borys TARASYUK, Foreign Minister of Ukraine (to be confirmed) |
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| Exchange
of views with Mr Philippe MAYSTADT, President of the European Investment
Bank, on funding of European Neighbourhood Policy projects |
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| Exchange of views with Mr Nicolas SCHMIT, Luxembourg Minister for European Affairs, on the General Affairs and External Relations Council of 13-14 June 2005 | - | - | - |
| Exchange of views with Mrs Benita FERRERO-WALDNER, Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy on the financial RELEX instruments | - | - | - |
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| Advance notice: Joint Hearing 23 June 2005 | - | - | - |
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Joint public
hearing AFET-DROI: Thursday,
23 June 2005, 3-6.30pm The main objective of this special joint hearing is to analyse the state of freedom of expression and parliamentary democracy in the Mediterranean countries. The political context is provided by this year's 10th anniversary of the Barcelona process, a process of associating the countries of the Mediterranean region with the EU which focuses on political, economic and social modernisation. This hearing is also a follow-up to discussions held at the first Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly in Cairo in March 2005, where the President of the European Parliament initiated the idea for this hearing. |
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| SEDE - Subcommittee on Security and Defence | 23 June 05 | committee homepage | |
| Advance notice: Joint Hearing IMCO-SEDE: | - | - | - |
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PUBLIC
HEARING on Thursday
23rd June 2005, 3-6.30pm |
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| DROI - Subcommittee on Human Rights | 16 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Exchange of views with the Luxembourg and British Presidencies of the Council | - | - | - |
| Exchange of views on implementation of the European Union guidelines on Human Rights Defenders | - | - | - |
| Exchange of views on the dialogue on human rights between the EU and China | - | - | - |
| Questions to the Commission | - | - | - |
| Information from the Platform of NGOs | - | - | - |
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| BUDG - Budgets | 14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| BUDGET 2005 | - | - | - |
| Amending budget 2/2005: annual adaptation of pay and pensions by section | Co-rapporteurs:
Salvador Garriga Polledo (EPP-ED) Anne Elisabet Jensen (ALDE) |
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and adoption of a draft report and budgetary amendments |
| Amending budget 3/2005: mobilisation of flexibility instrument for rehabilitation and reconstruction following the tsunami disaster - Exchange of views on draft amending budget in the presence of Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy | Salvador Garriga Polledo (EPP-ED) | - | - |
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| FINANCIAL REGULATION - JOINT DEBATE WITH COCOBU | - | - | - |
| The
reform of the Financial Regulation - Seminar "Experiences with Implementation of Financial Regulation" - Exchange of views with the Secretaries General of EU Institutions - Working document No 5 on Grants and Financial Regulation in 6th Framework Programme |
Ingeborg
Gräßle (EPP-ED) + Borut Pahor (PES) - Cocobu |
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FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE 2007-2013 |
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| Financial Perspective 2007-2013 - Follow-up of the vote in the EP and preparation of negotiations : exchange of views | Reimer Böge (EPP-ED) | - | - |
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| BUDGET 2006 | - | - | - |
| 2006 budget : Conciliation procedure | Giovanni Pittella (PES) | - | Consideration of draft report on a mandate - Consideration of working documents |
| 2006 budget: "Other" sections - Working document on Estimates "Other sections" | Valdis Dombrovskis (EPP-ED) | - | - |
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| BUDGET 2005 | - | - | - |
| 2005 Budget: Section III (Commission) | Salvador Garriga Polledo (EPP-ED) | - | Consideration of transfer request |
| 2005 Budget: "Other" Sections | Anne Elisabet Jensen (ALDE) | - | Consideration of transfer requests |
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BUILDING POLICY |
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| Submissions under article 179(3) of the Financial Regulation - Possibly, consideration of submissions on building projects (Copenhagen Information Office) | Jan Mulder (ALDE) | - | - |
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| DECENTRALISED AGENCIES - JOINT DEBATE WITH COCOBU | - | - | - |
| Annual meeting with the Directors of the Decentralised Agencies on the 2006 Budget | Jutta
D. Haug (PES) Giovanni Pittella (PES) |
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CONT - Budgetary Control |
13-14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Accounts of the EP political groups for the period 1 January 2004 to 30 June 2004 | Alexander
Stubb (EPP-ED) |
- | Vote and adoption of a draft report |
| European Court of Auditors' Special Report 9/2004 on forestry measures within rural development policy, in the presence of the Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible for agricultural policies, Mr Jean-François Bernicot | Albert
Jan Maat (EPP-ED) |
- | Consideration of a working document |
| Budget 2006 - Exchange of views with the BUDG general budget rapporteur, Mr Giovanni Pittella (PSE) on the 2006 Budget and on possible CONT amendments | Christopher Heaton-Harris (EPP-ED) | - | - |
| European Court of Auditors' Special Report 10/2004 on devolution of external aid management to Commission delegations, in the presence of the Member of the European Court of Auditors responsible for external actions, Mr Robert Reynders | Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou (PES) | - | Consideration of a working document |
| External study "Strengthening OLAF": presentation of the interim report and exchange of views, in preparation for the 12-13 July 2005 Hearing on OLAF | Herbert Bösch (PES) | - | - |
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| In the presence of the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud, Mr Siim Kallas | - | - | - |
| Transparency initiative: exchange of views | - | - | - |
| Financial control of co-financing projects: whistleblowing case (in camera) | - | - | - |
| Activities
organised with BUDG:
* 14 June 2005, 16:00 to 18:30: Joint Seminar on "Experiences with the implementation of the Financial Regulation in the EU Institutions and in decentralised bodies" |
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| DEVE - Development | 16 June 05 | committee homepage | |
| JOINT HEARING DEVE - INTA - AFET - SEDE | - | - | - |
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Landmines
Information Day - |
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| ECON - Economic and Monetary Affairs | 14-15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Surveillance of Budgetary Positions and Surveillance and Coordination of Economic Policies | Othmar
Karas (EPP-ED) |
- | Consideration of a common position - Adoption in committee of second reading (Possibly) |
| Broad Economic Policy Guidelines and Stability and Growth Pact - Economic Situation - Exchange of views with M KOCH-WESER, President of the Economic and Financial Committee. | - | - | - |
| Capital adequacy of investment firms and credit institutions (recast) | Alexander Radwan (EPP-ED) | - | Consideration of amendments |
| The
Eurozone Economic Situation Exchange of views with Mr JUNCKER as President of the Eurogroup. |
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| 2004 annual report of the European Central Bank (ECB) | Kurt Joachim Lauk (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Adoption of a draft report |
| Implementation of an information and communication strategy on the euro and Economic and Monetary Union | Jules
Maaten (ALDE) |
own initiative | Adoption of a draft report |
| Amendment to simplify obligations in connection with VAT |
Zsolt László Becsey (EPP-ED) |
consultation | Consideration of amendments |
| IMF report | Benoît
Hamon (PES) |
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1st exchange of views |
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| EMPL - Employment and Social Affairs | 14-15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Health and safety at work: the exposure of workers to optical radiation | Csaba Ory (EPP-ED) | codecision second reading |
Consideration of amendments - Vote and adoption of a draft recommendation |
| European Social Fund | José Albino Silva Peneda (EPP-ED) | codecision first reading | Consideration of amendments - Vote and adoption of a draft report |
| Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity - PROGRESS | Karin Jöns (PES) | codecision first reading | Consideration of amendments - Vote and adoption of a draft report |
| Challenges
for the Social Dialogue in Europe Hearing with Polish Social Partners |
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| ENVI - Environment, Public Health and Food Safety | 13-14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Exchange of views with Mr Stavros DIMAS, Commissioner for the Environment | - | - | - |
| Exchange of views with Mr Geoffrey PODGER, Executive Director of EFSA | - | - | - |
| Medicinal products for paediatric use | Françoise Grossetête (EPP-ED) | Codecision first reading | Consideration of amendments - Adoption in committee 1st reading |
| Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds | Karl-Heinz Florenz (EPP-ED) | consultation | Adoption in committee 1st reading |
| Humane trapping standards for certain animal species | Karin Scheele (PES) | Codecision first reading | Consideration of a draft report |
| Dangerous substances and preparations (phthalates) and the safety of toys | Antonios Trakatellis (EPP-ED) | Codecision second reading | Adoption in committee 2nd reading |
| Exchange
of views with Mr Gérard ONESTA, Vice-President and Mr Julian PRIESTLEY,
Secretary General on the environmental management of the buildings of the
European Parliament and the pursuit of the EMAS process |
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| Report back from delegation to Almaty, Kazakhstan, 25-27 May 2005, Meeting on the Århus Convention - Exchange of views - Decision on procedure and further handling of Århus Convention file | - | - | - |
| Amendment of two directives on food additives | Mojca Drcar Murko (ALDE) | Codecision first reading | Adoption in committee 1st reading |
| Discussion on LIFE + after adoption of the Böge report on Financial Perspectives - Exchange of views | - | - | - |
| O.Q.
3/6/2005 by Mesdames Klass and Roth-Behrendt and Messrs Florenz, Staes and
Graefe zu Baringdorf on Regulation (EC)concerning catering waste - Commission
presentation |
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| ITRE - Industry, Research and Energy | 15-16 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| In the presence of the Council and the European Commission | - | - | - |
| Deployment and commercial operating phases of the European programme of satellite radionavigation | Etelka Barsi-Pataky (EPP-ED) | Codecision first reading | Consideration of a draft report - continuation |
| Visit of Mrs Vivianne REDING, Commissioner responsible for Information Society and Media - Presentation of "The New Initiative i2010" | - | - | - |
| Visit
of Mr. Jeannot KRECKÉ, Minister in-office of the Council, for Economics
and External Trade - Exchange of views |
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| The share of renewable energy in the EU and proposals for concrete actions | Claude Turmes (Verts/ALE) | own initiative | Consideration of amendments |
| European electronic communications regulation and markets 2004 - Exchange of views | Patrizia Toia (ALDE) | own initiative | - |
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| IMCO - Internal Market and Consumer Protection | 13-14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| In the presence of the Council and the European Commission | - | - | - |
| Services in the internal market - Exchange of views on the basis of draft report and with the participation of Commissioner McCREEVY | Evelyne Gebhardt (PES) | codecision first reading | - |
| Exchange of views with Commissioner KOVACS on Customs Programme 2007-2013 and forthcoming revision of Customs Code | - | - | - |
| The promotion and protection of consumers' interests in the new Member States | Henrik Dam Kristensen (PES) | own initiative | Consideration of a draft report |
| Machinery (amendment of Directive 95/16/EC) - Exchange of views | Andreas
Schwab (EPP-ED) |
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| Amendment of the legal protection of design | Manuel Medina Ortega (PES) | codecision first reading | Consideration of amendments |
| Petitions- Consideration - SOLVIT presentation by the DG MARKT [Ms. Anne Houtman, Director DG MARKT] | - | - | - |
| Rules on nominal quantities for pre-packed products - Exchange of views [continuation] | Jacques
Toubon (EPP-ED) |
codecision first reading | - |
| Possibly:
New aspects of public procurement policy, including electronic public procurement
- Announcement of a rapporteur [possibly] - Exchange of views |
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| INTA - International Trade | 13-14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| In the presence of the Council and the European Commission: | - | - | - |
| Licences for pharmaceutical products intended for countries with public health problems | Johan Van Hecke (ALDE) | codecision first reading | Consideration of a draft report |
| TURKMENISTAN: | - | - | - |
| Interim Agreement with Turkmenistan | Daniel
Caspary (EPP-ED) |
consultation | 1st exchange of views |
| Negotiation and conclusion of a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Turkmenistan | Daniel
Caspary (EPP-ED) |
assent procedure | 1st exchange of views |
| EU's Revised Services Offer and State of Play of GATS negotiations - Exchange of views with Mr. AGUIAR MICHADO, Director, DG TRADE, European Commission | - | - | - |
| State-of-play of Airbus-Boeing Dispute - Exchange of views with Mr. PETRICCIONE, Director, DG Trade, European Commission | - | - | - |
| Prospects for trade relations between the EU and China | Caroline Lucas (Greens/ALE) | own initiative | Consideration of a draft report |
| Textiles and clothing after 2005 | Tokia Saïfi (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Vote and adoption of a draft report |
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Financial Instruments for External Assistance - Exchange of views |
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| TRAN - Transport and Tourism | 13-14-15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
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Improvement of the environmental performance of the freight transport system
('Marco Polo II') |
Reinhard
Rack (EPP-ED) |
codecision first reading | Consideration of a draft report |
| Road accident victims in the EU in the period up to 2010 | Ari Vatanen (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Adoption of a draft report |
| New prospects and challenges for sustainable European Tourism | Luís Queiró (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Adoption of a draft report |
| Agreement between the EC and Azerbaijan on certain aspects of air services | Paolo Costa (ALDE) | consultation | Consideration and adoption of a draft report |
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Agreement between the EC and Georgia on certain aspects of air services |
Paolo Costa (ALDE) | consultation | Consideration and adoption of a draft report |
| Agreement between the EC and Lebanon on certain aspects of air services | Paolo Costa (ALDE) | consultation | Consideration and adoption of a draft report |
| Exchange
of views with Mr Alistair Darling, UK Secretary of State for Transport |
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| Market access to port services - Hearing | Georg Jarzembowski (EPP-ED) | codecision first reading | - |
| Application of EC competition rules to maritime transport - Exchange of views | Rodi
Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (EPP-ED) |
own initiative | - |
| The rights of persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air | Robert Evans (PES) | codecision first reading | - |
| Information of passengers on the identity of the operating carrier | Christine De Veyrac (EPP-ED) | codecision first reading | Consideration of a working document |
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programme of the hearing and access details (pdf) | - | - |
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| REGI - Regional Development | 15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Urban dimension in the context of enlargement | Jean Marie Beaupuy (ALDE) | own initiative | Consideration of a draft report |
| Exchange of views with the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council of the EU represented by The Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade Jeannot Krecké on the last developments on Financial perspectives | - | - | - |
| The role of direct State aid as a tool of regional development - Exchange of views with Neelie Kroes, Member of the European Commission | Milos
Koterec (PES) |
own initiative | Consideration of a draft report (if necessary, continuation of the debate) |
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Establishment of a European grouping of cross-border cooperation |
Jan
Olbrycht (EPP-ED) |
codecision first reading | Adoption of a draft report |
| The role of territorial cohesion in regional development | Ambroise
Guellec (EPP-ED) |
own initiative | Adoption of a draft report |
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| AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 14-15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Exchange of views with Geoffrey Podger, Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority | - | - | - |
| Exchange of views with Rudolf Schwarzböck, Chairman of COPA | - | - | - |
| Amendment as regards exceptional market support measures - possibly exchange of views: confirmation of the rejection of the Commission's proposal | Niels Busk (ALDE) | consultation | - |
| Community measures for the control of Avian Influenza | Neil Parish (EPP-ED) | consultation | Exchange of views |
| Expenditure in the veterinary field | Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) | consultation | Exchange of views |
| Research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 - 2013) | Thijs Berman (PES) | codecision first reading | Exchange of views |
| Agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union | Duarte
Freitas (EPP-ED) |
consultation | Adoption of draft report |
| Control of potato cyst nematodes | Joseph Daul (EPP-ED) | consultation | Adoption of draft report (Rule 43(1) procedure - no amendments) |
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Implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy with the following experts:
Statement by Seppo Kallio, ESC rapporteur on the forestry strategy |
Heinz Kindermann (PES) | own initiative | Exchange of views |
| Exchange of views with Mariann Fischer Boel, Member of the Commission for agriculture and rural development, on implementation of the 2005 legislative programme and legislative planning for 2006 | - | - | - |
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Joint
Conference of the European Parliament and the European Commission, "A
bid from the Countryside" |
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| PECH - Fisheries | 15-16 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| European Fisheries Fund | David Casa (EPP-ED) | consultation | Consideration of amendments |
| Fishery resources in the Baltic Sea, the Belts and the Sound | Zdzislaw Kazimierz Chmielewski (EPP-ED) | consultation | 2nd exchange of views |
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Protocol to the fishing Agreement between the European Economic Community and the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros (1 January 2005 to 31 December 2010) |
Carmen Fraga Estévez (EPP-ED) | consultation | Exchange of views |
| North Atlantic Salmon Fund (Icelandic foundation) - Exchange of views with Mr Orri Vigfússen, Chairman of the foundation | - | - | - |
| Seventh
framework programme for research - Exchange of views with the European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research Organisation (EFARO) |
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| CULT - Culture and Education | 15-16 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| In the presence of the Council and the European Commission: | - | - | - |
| Exchange of view with Ms Viviane REDING, Member of the Commission | - | - | - |
| Television without borders: application of articles 4 and 5 of directive 89/552/EEC, 2001-2002 | Henri Weber (PES) | own initiative | vote, adoption of draft report |
| Consultation on options for developing the European Schools system | Mary Honeyball (PES) | own initiative | vote, adoption of draft report |
| New challenges for circus as part of the European culture | Doris Pack (EPP-ED) | own initiative | Consideration of draft report |
| Exchange of views with Mr Jan Figel, Member of the Commission | - | - | - |
| Education as the cornerstone of the Lisbon process | Guy Bono (PES) | own initiative | Consideration of draft report |
| Immigrant communities' integration in Europe through multilingual schools and education | Miguel Portas (GUE/NGL) | own initiative | Consideration of draft report |
| Audiovisual and information industries, competitiveness: protection of minors and human dignity and right of reply | Marielle De Sarnez (ALDE) | codecision first reading | Consideration of draft report |
| Presentation of Europa Nostra, Pan-European Federation for Heritage, by Mr Otto von der Gablentz, Executive Chairman and Ms Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, Secretary General | - | - | - |
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| JURI - Legal Affairs | 15 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| Statute of members | Giuseppe Gargani (EPP-ED) | - |
Consideration and adoption of draft report |
| LIBE - Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs | 20-21 June 05 | committee homepage | |
| AFCO - Constitutional Affairs | 13-14 June 05 | full agenda | committee homepage |
| In the presence of the Council and the European Commission | - | - | - |
| Verification and rectification of the codecision procedure adopted at first reading | Richard Corbett (PES) |