UK Office of the European Parliament

EP News, April 24th, 2008 (No. 355)

 

There are no official meetings in the European Parliament during the week 28 April to 2 May. MEPs return to Brussels on 5 May (not a Bank Holiday in Belgium) for committee meetings and the plenary session in Brussels on 7-8 May.

Jonathan Evans MEP (Conservative, Wales) and Bairbre de Brún MEP (Sinn Féin, Northern Ireland) will take part in a delegation to Washington from the Climate Change Temporary Committee (Mon-Weds).  They will meet US Congress members, representatives of the Administration and of NGOs.

A delegation from the Agriculture Committee will visit Brazil to discuss beef exports to the EU. UK MEPs taking part are: Neil Parish (Conservative, South West, chair of the committee); Jim Allister (Independent, Northern Ireland); Richard Ashworth (Conservative, South East), Jim Nicholson (UUP, Northern Ireland). The visit will take place from Sunday 27 April to Thursday 1 May.

 

 



European Parliament on your radar

Among the reports due for adoption in the coming months, where a UK MEP is the rapporteur are the following. Timing is subject to change.

Title
Stage
MEP responsible
Committee
Timing
Waste Directive
2nd reading
 Caroline Jackson MEP
(Cons, Sth West)
Environment
 Adoption 8 April
Plenary adoption 17 June
Electricity markets
1st reading
Eluned Morgan MEP
(Lab. Wales)

Energy
Adoption 6 May
Plenary adoption 17 June
Telecoms package/electronic communications Directive
1st reading
Malcolm Harbour MEP
(Cons, West Midlands)

Internal Market
Adoption 25 June
Plenary adoption 8 July
Computerised reservations
1st reading
Timothy Kirkhope MEP
(Cons, Yorks & Humber)

Transport
 Adoption 28 May
Plenary adoption 1 September
Climate change package including Carbon storage
1st reading
Chris Davies MEP
(Lib Dem, Nth West)

Environment
 Adoption 25 September
Plenary adoption 22 October
Solvency II Directive
1st reading
Peter Skinner MEP
(Lab, Sth East)

Economic
 Adoption 22 September
Plenary adoption 17 November
Competition Policy
report
 Jonathan Evans MEP
(Cons, Wales)

no timing yet fixed
Role of the national judge
initiative report
 Diana Wallis MEP
(Lib Dem, Yorks & Humber)
no timing yet fixed

 

 

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Hearings

Committee on Budgetary Control
5 May 2008
United against VAT fraud? Practical aspects of cooperation between Member States and EU institutions
Programme

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
6 May 2008
Promoting Social Inclusion in the EU
Programme

Committee on Development / Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
6 May 2008
Women and War
Programme

 

 

Diary Dates

European Parliament plenary sessions 2008

 

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