Parliamentary Committees of 2025-01-27

Debates

• Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2023 (2024/2083(INI)) - Consideration of draft report - Rapporteur: Gilles BOYER (Renew, FR)
• 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Joint Undertakings (2024/2031(DEC)) - Consideration of draft report - Rapporteur: Michal WIEZIK (Renew, SK)
• Discharge 2023: General budget of the EU - Other Institutions - Consideration of draft reports
  - Committee of the Regions (2024/2026(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)
  - European Council and Council (2024/2021(DEC) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)
  - European Ombudsman (2024/2027(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)
  - Court of Justice of the European Union (2024/2022(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Cristian TERHEŞ (ECR, RO)
  - European Public Prosecutors Office (the ‘EPPO’) (2024/2029(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ (EPP, CZ)
  - European External Action Service (2024/2024(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)
  - European Data Protection Supervisor (2024/2028(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)
  - Court of Auditors (2024/2023(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Dick ERIXON (ECR, SE)
  - European Economic and Social Committee (2024/2025(DEC)) - Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR, PL)

Debates

• Exchange of views with Volker TÜRK, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Jointly with the Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Exchange of views on the human rights situation in Nicaragua - In association with the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America

Votes

• Constitutive meeting
  - Election of the Chair
  - Election of the Vice-Chairs in separate ballots

Debates

• Exchange of views on Polish priorities in the area of the EU security and defence with Paweł ZALEWSKI, Secretary of State at the Ministry of National Defence of the Republic of Poland
• Ukrainian experience in countering the Axis of Evil's networks that supply components for Russia's military and its illegal attacks on civilian infrastructure - Exchange of views with:
  - Hanna HOPKO, Co-Founder of the International Centre for Ukrainian Victory, and Chairwoman of the National Interests Advocacy Network “ANTS”
  - Olena TREGUB, Secretary General of the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (NAKO)
  - Mykhailo GONCHAR, President of the Centre for Global Studies "Strategy XXI"
  - Andrii ZAHORODNIUK, Chairman of the Board of the Center for Defence Strategies and former Minister of Defence of Ukraine (2019–2020).

Public hearing

• The Way to a European Water Resilience Strategy - an EU Blue Deal

Debates

• Working group on the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) - Reporting back to committee by Andreas SCHWAB (PPE, DE), Chair of the Working group
• Working Group on the implementation and enforcement of the Artificial Intelligence Act - Reporting back to committee by Brando BENIFEI (S&D, IT), Co-Chair of the Working group
• IMCO ad hoc delegation to Mumbai, Pune, and Bengaluru, India, 6-10 January 2025 - Reporting back to committee by Andreas SCHWAB (PPE, DE), Chair of the delegation
• Public procurement (2024/2103(INI)) - Exchange of views - Rapporteur: Piotr MÜLLER (ECR, PL)
• Shaping the future Single Market Strategy - Exchange of views

Debates

• Implementing Protocol (2025-2030) to the Protocol implementing the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union on the one hand, and the Government of Greenland and the Government of Denmark, on the other hand (2024/0263(NLE)) - Presentation by the Commission - Rapporteur: Emma FOURREAU (The Left, FR)
• Exchange of views with Charlina VITCHEVA, Director-General, DG MARE

Debates

• Statutes of limitation in the EU for crimes of child sexual abuse - Exchange of views with Representatives of national authorities and experts in the field: Exchange of views with Olivier ONIDI, Deputy Director-General, Schengen & Internal Security, European Commission
• The Finnish law ‘Temporary Measures to Combat Instrumentalised Migration’ and the instrumentalisation of migrants by Russia at the EU borders - Exchange of views with Sanna PALO, Chief of the Legal Division at the Finnish Border Guard and Major General Matti SARASMAA, Deputy Chief of the Finnish Border Guard, Exchange of views with Michael SHOTTER, Director for Migration, Asylum and Visa, European Commission
• Exchange of views on Hungary’s backsliding on democracy and the rule of law - Exchange of views with Barna Pál ZSIGMOND, State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of European Union Affairs, Exchange of views with Irena MOOZOVA, Deputy Director-General, International Dimension of Justice Policies, Rule of Law and Equality, European Commission, Exchange of views with Representatives of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee and of the Central European University's Democratic Institute

Debate

• European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social  priorities for 2025 (INI) - consideration of draft report - consideration of amendments - rapporteur: Maravillas ABADÍA JOVER (PPE,ES)

Debates

• A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (2024/2051(INI)) - Exchange of views with the BUDG Co-Rapporteurs Siegfried MUREŞAN and Carla TAVARES - Rapporteur for the opinion: Adrian-Dragoş BENEA (S&D, RO)
• Study presentation on Climate adaptation using Cohesion Policy Funds, by Policy Department B
• Mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context (2018/0198(COD)) - Reporting back to committee on the negotiations (Rule 75(3)) - Rapporteur: Sandro GOZI (Renew, FR)

Debates

• Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (2024/0035(COD)) - Consideration of draft opinion - Consideration of amendments - Rapporteur for the opinion: Heléne FRITZON (S&D, SE)

• Exchange of views with Ana PELÁEZ, Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women