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EP News, April 13th, 2007 (No. 302)

 

The Week Ahead, 16-20 April 2007

From 16-20 April, MEPs will meet in their political groups to prepare voting positions ahead of the following week's plenary session of parliament.

Highlights of the session week (23-26 April) in Strasbourg include:-

  • Payment services in the internal market
  • Advanced therapy medicinal products
  • Improvement of the portability of supplementary pension rights
  • Multilateral Agreement on the Establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA)
  • Budget 2008: The Commission's annual strategic priorities
  • Combating HIV/AIDS within the EU and neighbouring countries, 2006-2009
  • Assessment and management of flood risks
  • Formal sitting - India: Address by Abdul Kalam, President of the Republic of India
  • Criminal measures to enforce intellectual property rights
  • Common Fisheries Policy (Regional Advisory Councils).

 

Hearings

[ Programmes are available from http://www.europarl.europa.eu/hearings/default_en.htm ]

17 April 2007
Joint Hearing: Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child

organized by:

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Committee on Culture and Education
Subcommittee on Human Rights
Committee on Development
Committee on Legal Affairs

Speakers include Ms Anne-Marie Hutchinson, Head of the Children Department, Dawson & Cornwell, United Kingdom.

Full programme and registration details: click here (pdf).

 

8 May 2007
ECON - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Développements récents de la fiscalité directe et Stratégie de Lisbonne

 

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