UK Office of the European Parliament

EP News, June 23rd, 2006 (No. 266)

 

The Week Ahead in the European Parliament

26-29 June 2006

 

MEPs meet in their political groups in Brussels, 26-29 June, to coordinate voting positions before the next plenary meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, 3-6 July.

The draft agenda of the plenary is online on Europarl at this URL: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/agenda.do?language=EN

Highlights include (subject to modifications):

  • Batteries Directive (3rd reading);
  • ESF/ERDF regulations ;
  • Equitable Life inquiry - interim report;
  • CIA temporary committee - interim report;
  • Finnish Presidency presentation.

 

 

New on our website: What Happens Next? - www.europarl.org.uk / next

One of the most common questions we are asked by journalists, lawyers, academics and organisations working on EU matters is: What happens next?  The European Parliament has voted, but what's the next stage in the process?

We have created a new page on our website designed to help find out what happens next on a given piece of legislation.  Click here to see the new column which tracks legislation and reports we have already covered in previous press releases or In Focus studies - if it's still within the EU decision-making process, how far has it got?; if it is now with the UK to implement, which department is responsible?  Where can you find out more information? 

For detailed background it is always possible to go to the European Parliament's main website and use the Legislative Observatory search engine. But our new page gives you basic information in one click.  The information is organised by policy area or committee - it does not cover all dossiers (use the Legislative Observatory for that) but does follow all issues where this office has produced a press release in the last 3 years.

 

 

HEARINGS, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS

Budgetary Control
12 July - Workshop: Tolerable risk of error in underlying transactions - Tolerable for whom?

 

 

DIARY DATES

Link to the European Parliament's session calendar 2006: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/expert/staticDisplay.do?id=118

 

 

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