Parliamentary Committees of 2025-02-18

Debate

• Exchange of views with the Commission on the EU Agri-Food Chain Observatory

Vote

• Guidelines for the 2026 Budget - Section III - Adoption of draft opinion in letter form - Rapporteur for the opinion:Niclas HERBST (EPP, DE)

Debates

• 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission - Consideration of draft report - Rapporteur:Niclas HERBST (EPP, DE)
• Special report 05/2025: Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe (CARE) - Presentation of the report by ECA reporting Member George Marius HYZLER - Exchange of views with invited Members from the Committee on Regional Development (REGI)
• Study on "Performance-based instruments - possible improvements in their design" - Study on "Performance-based instruments - possible improvements in their design"

Debates

• Exchange of views with Michael O’FLAHERTY, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe

• Gender-based violence and the right to international protection of Afghan women and girls in the light of the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Joined Cases C-608/22 and C-609/22 - Exchange of views with:
  - Michael SHOTTER, Deputy Director-General in charge of Horizontal Affairs & Migration (HOME.DDG1), European Commission
  - Fabiane BAXEWANOS, Legal Officer, UNHCR Representation for EU Affairs

• The state of play of the negotiations concerning the agreements with third countries on personal data exchanges with Europol - Exchange of views with Olivier ONIDI, Deputy Director-General in charge of Schengen & Internal Security; Schengen Coordinator (HOME.DDG2), European Commission
• Application for the electronic submission of travel data (“EU Digital Travel application”) and amending Regulations (EU) 2016/399 and (EU) 2018/1726 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 2252/2004, as regards the use of digital travel credentials (2024/0670(COD)) - Presentation by Olivier ONIDI, Deputy Director-General in charge of Schengen & Internal Security; Schengen Coordinator (HOME.DDG2), European Commission - Rapporteur: Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR (S&D, ES)
• Issuance of and technical standards for digital travel credentials based on identity cards (2024/0248(CNS)) - Presentation by Julien MOUSNIER, Deputy Director-General - International Dimension of Justice Policies, Rule of Law and Equality (JUST.DDG2), European Commission - Rapporteur: Marieke EHLERS (PfE, NL)
• Exchange of views on the repeated delay of the start of the Entry/Exit System with:
  - Dariusz NOWAK-NOVA, Director of the ICT department and Plenipotentiary of the Minister of the Interior and Administration for Cyberspace Security, Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Polish Presidency of the EU Council
  - Olivier ONIDI, Deputy Director-General in charge of Schengen & Internal Security; Schengen Coordinator (HOME.DDG2), European Commission
  - Marili MÄNNIK, Executive Director-ad interim of the European Union Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (eu-LISA)
• Exchange of views with Henna VIRKKUNEN, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy

Votes

• Strengthening the security of identity cards of Union citizens and of residence documents issued to Union citizens and their family members exercising their right of free movement (2024/0187(CNS)) - Adoption of draft report - Rapporteur: Malik AZMANI (Renew, NL)
• Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data (2024/0051(NLE) - Adoption of draft recommendation (consent) - Rapporteur: Nikola MINCHEV (Renew, BG)
• Guidelines for the 2026 Budget - Section III (2024/2110(BUI)) - Adoption of draft opinion in letter form

Debates

• Exchange of views on the rule of law in the enlargement process
• The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report (2024/2078(INI)) - Consideration of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Isabel WISELER-LIMA (EPP, LU)
• Exchange of views on the human rights situation in India - In association with the Delegation for relations with India
• Exchange of views on the human rights situation in Pakistan - In association with the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia
• Exchange of views with Michael O’FLAHERTY, Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights
• Updates on the human rights situation in Egypt and Jordan in the context of the proposed financial packages of EU assistance
• Exchange of views on the situation of Haiti - Jointly with the Committee on Development (17.15 – 18.30, room Spinelli 5E2)

Hearing

• Hybrid War: protection of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea ( programme )

Debates

• The European Investment Bank’s role in strengthening Europe’s defence capabilities - Exchange of views with Robert DE GROOT, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank
• Exchange of views with Marcos PERESTRELLO, President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly - Jointly with the Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly

Debates

• Priorities of the Polish Presidency - exchange of views with Jakub Wiśniewski, Undersecretary of State
• A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world - consideration of draft opinion and exchange of views on BUDG draft report - rapporteur: Charles GOERENS (Renew, LU)
• Presentation of the International Rescue Committee’s 2025 Emergency Watchlist - exchange of views with David Miliband, CEO
• State of play of the implementation of the SDGs, in view of recent developments and the upcoming Fourth Conference on Financing for Development - exchange of views with UNDP
• The humanitarian, security and development situation in Haiti - exchange of views with the UN Resident Coordinator, UNODC and Human Rights Watch (HRW), jointly with the Subcommittee on Human Rights and in association with the Delegation to the Caribbean-EU Parliamentary Assembly

Debates

• Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence (AI Liability Directive) (2022/0303(COD)) - Consideration of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI (ECR, PL)
• Standardisation Strategy and developments of EU standardisation policies - Exchange of views with Commission
• Ongoing investigations against e-commerce platforms – latest developments - Exchange of views with Commission

Public hearing

• Housing rentals in the internal market and protection of consumers

Debate

• The European Water Resilience Strategy - Consideration of draft report - Rapporteur:Thomas BAJADA,(S&D, MT)
• Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility - Consideration of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Jonas SJÖSTEDT (The Left, SE)

Votes

• Common data platform on chemicals, establishing a monitoring and outlook framework for chemicals - Adoption of draft report - Rapporteur:Dimitris TSIODRAS (EPP, EL)
• Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals - Adoption of draft report- Rapporteur: Dimitris TSIODRAS (EPP, EL)
• Re-attribution of scientific and technical tasks to the European Chemicals Agency - Adoption of draft report - Rapporteur: Dimitris TSIODRAS (EPP, EL)
• 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Commission - Adoption of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Antonio DECARO (S&D, IT)
• 2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - Agencies - Adoption of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Antonio DECARO (S&D, IT)

Vote

• Adoption of the proposal for a Parenthood Regulation (2025/2545(RSP)) - Adoption of question for oral answer to the Council - Adoption of questions for oral answer to the Commission - Rapporteur: Ilhan KYUCHYUK (Renew, BG)

Debate

• Exchange of views with Valdis DOMBROVSKIS, Commissioner for Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification

Debates

• Amending Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA (2023/0250(COD)) - Reporting back to committee on the negotiations (Rule 75(3)) - Rapporteurs: Javier ZARZALEJOS (EPP, ES), Lucia YAR (Renew, SK)
• A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (2024/2051(INI)) - Consideration of draft opinion - Rapporteur for the opinion: Alexandra GEESE (Greens/EFA, DE)
• Exchange of views with Hadja LAHBIB, Commissioner for Equality
• Research Results on the Integration of Ukrainian Women in Europe - Exchange of Views
• Presentation by the Commission and EEAS on the preparation of CSW69

Debates

• Application of the Treaty provisions related to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and the role of national parliaments in the EU legislative process (2025/2042(INI)) - Exchange of views - Rapporteur: Marieke EHLERS (PfE, NL)
• The statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast) (2021/0375(COD)) - Exchange of views - Co-rapporteurs: Loránt VINCZE (EPP, RO), Charles GOERENS (Renew, LU)

Debates

• Monitoring framework for resilient European forests - Consideration of draft report- Rapporteurs: Emma WIESNER (Renew,SE) and Eric SARGIACOMO (S&D, IT)
• Amending Council Decision 89/367/EEC setting up a Standing Forestry Committee -Consideration of draft report- Rapporteurs: Emma WIESNER Renew,SE) and Pekka TOVERI (EPP, FI)