EU Agenda - IEU Monitoring 1 February 2021

Our IEU AGENDA this week: 

EU COMMISSION: 

EU Commission Calendar: 

• 1 February 2021 +++ 
• 2 February 2021 +++ 
• 3 February 2021 +++ 
• 4 February 2021 +++ 
• 5 February 2021 +++ 
• 6 February 2021 +++ 
• 7 February 2021 +++ 

EU COMMISSION - EXPERT GROUPS: 

EU Commission expert groups meetings until 31 March 2021: 

• E03743 - Commission expert group "Industrial Forum"
• E01711 - Administrative cooperation in the field of direct taxation
• E02021 - Government Expert Group on Retail Financial Services
• E02730 - Expert Group for Agricultural Markets, in particular concerning aspects falling under the single CMO Regulation
• E03419 - Customs Expert Group
• E03735 - Technical expert stakeholder group on SMEs
• E03755 - Commission expert group on the ERA Forum for Transition
• E02734 - Expert Group for Horizontal Questions concerning the CAP
• E03419 - Customs Expert Group
• E02730 - Expert Group for Agricultural Markets, in particular concerning aspects falling under the single CMO Regulation
• E02730 - Expert Group for Agricultural Markets, in particular concerning aspects falling under the single CMO Regulation
• E03419 - Customs Expert Group
• E03525 - Expert Group Sugar Market Observatory
• E03670 - C2020 CPG/195 Project Group on the Proof of Union Status system
• E03575 - C2020 CPG/160 UCC Customs Decisions System Project Group
• E03652 - Forum for the Exchange of Information on Enforcement of the EU legislation on the approval and market surveillance of motor vehicles
• E03054 - C2020 CPG/002 - Customs Laboratories European Network (CLEN)
• E03735 - Technical expert stakeholder group on SMEs
• E02821 - Expert Group on Land Transport Security
• E03721 - Expert group on the implementation of the legislative package to transmit and exchange payment data in order to combat VAT fraud
• E03735 - Technical expert stakeholder group on SMEs
• E03110 - C2020 CPG/031 - Customs Business Group
• E02210 - Co-ordination Group for Biodiversity and Nature
• E03735 - Technical expert stakeholder group on SMEs
• E03735 - Technical expert stakeholder group on SMEs

EU COMMISSION - COMITOLOGY

• CMTD(2021)173 | Committee Meeting | TAXUD - Taxation and Customs Union | 03/02/2021 - 03/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)172 | Committee Meeting | TAXUD - Taxation and Customs Union | 03/02/2021 - 03/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)196 | Committee Meeting | SANTE - Health and Food Safety | 03/02/2021 - 03/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)219 | Committee Meeting | TRADE - Trade | 03/02/2021 - 03/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)141 | Committee Meeting | GROW - Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs | 04/02/2021 - 04/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)248 | Committee Meeting | TAXUD - Taxation and Customs Union | 05/02/2021 - 05/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)217 | Committee Meeting | HOME - Migration and Home Affairs | 08/02/2021 - 08/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)220 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 09/02/2021 - 09/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)187 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 09/02/2021 - 09/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)252 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 09/02/2021 - 09/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)97 | Committee Meeting | MOVE - Mobility and Transport | 09/02/2021 - 10/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)185 | Committee Meeting | RTD - Research and Innovation | 10/02/2021 - 10/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)195 | Committee Meeting | HOME - Migration and Home Affairs | 10/02/2021 - 10/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)214 | Committee Meeting | HOME - Migration and Home Affairs | 10/02/2021 - 10/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)5 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 10/02/2021 - 10/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)264 | Committee Meeting | SANTE - Health and Food Safety | 11/02/2021 - 12/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)46 | Committee Meeting | ESTAT - Eurostat - European statistics | 11/02/2021 - 12/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)5 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 24/02/2021 - 24/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)3 | Committee Meeting | AGRI - Agriculture and Rural Development | 25/02/2021 - 25/02/2021
• CMTD(2021)259 | Committee Meeting | MOVE - Mobility and Transport | 04/03/2021 - 04/03/2021

EU PARLIAMENT

EP: The week ahead 1 - 7 February 2021

• EU financing of vaccines
• World Cancer Day
• Measures against 'carbon leakage'.
• Portuguese Presidency
• Plenary preparations
• President’s diary

EP Agenda day by day

• 1 February 2021
• 2 February 2021
• 3 February 2021
• 4 February 2021
• 5 February 2021

EP Calendar of parliamentary activities 2021

EU COUNCIL

Main topics and media events

• 3 February 2021: Informal meeting of competitiveness ministers (research and innovation) 
• 11 February 2021: EU-Ukraine Association Council
• 15 February 2021: Eurogroup
• 16 February 2021: Economic and Financial Affairs Council

Coreper, Committees and Working Parties

• 1 February 2021
• 2 February 2021
• 3 February 2021
• 4 February 2021
• 5 February 2021

EU COUNCIL PRESIDENCY 

• Programme of the Portuguese EU Presidency

OTHER EU EVENTS

• 2 February 2021: Pact for Skills: support for upskilling and reskilling under Erasmus+
• 3-5 February 2021: 142nd plenary meeting of the European Committee of the Regions
• 3 February Stakeholder meeting on the establishment of a multilateral investment court
• 3 February 2021: Cedefop seminar on VET teachers and trainers: Making Excellence Inclusive 
• 4 February 2021: 10th anniversary conference: EIOPA at the heart of insurance and pensions supervision in Europe
• 9 February 2021: Audiovisual translation, present and future
• 9 February 2021: 2021-2027 technical seminars: webinar on REACT-EU
• 9-10 February 2021: EEFIG plenary meeting 2021
• 9 February 2021: 2021-2027 technical seminars: webinar on REACT-EU 
• 11 February 2021:  Union of equality: LGBTIQ equality strategy 2020-2025
• 17 February 2021: The role of social economy in a fair and sustainable recovery: input for the future action plan on social economy
• 23 February 2021: EU Industry Days 2021
• 28 February 2021: ARLEM Award 2021 - Young local entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean
• 1-5 March 2021: Civil Society Days 2021
• 1-2 March 2021: 15th European nuclear energy forum

COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU

Complete diary of the Court of Justice of the European Union until 4 March 2021

CJEU Background (EN)

• Judgment in case C-481/19 Consob: (Approximation of laws - Directive 2003/6/EC and Regulation (EU) 596/2014 - Market abuse - Administrative sanctions and other administrative measures - Failure to cooperate with the competent authorities - Right to remain silent and right not to contribute to one's own criminalisation)
• Judgment in case C-637/18 Commission / Hongrie (Exceedance of limit values for PM10): (Action for failure to fulfil obligations - Environment - Directive 2008/50/EC - Ambient air quality - Systematic exceedance of the limit values for PM10 (microparticles) - Failure to ensure that the period of exceedance is as short as possible)
• Judgment in case C-555/19 Fussl Modestraße Mayr: (Freedom to provide services - Audiovisual media services - Advertising - More detailed or stricter national rules - National rules prohibiting the broadcasting of advertising at regional level on television or radio channels with national coverage)
• Judgment in joined cases C-155/19 FIGC et Consorzio Ge.Se.Av. & C-156/19 FIGC et Consorzio Ge.Se.Av.: (Preliminary ruling procedure - Award of public supply, works or service contracts - Directive 2014/24/EU - Contracting authority - Body governed by public law - National football federation - Satisfaction of needs of the general interest - Supervision of the management of the federation by a body governed by public law)
• Opinion in Case C-487/19 W. Ż. (Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court - Nomination): (Principles of the Union - Establishment of the remedies necessary to ensure effective judicial protection - Respect for the principle of the independence of judges - Status of independent court - Single judge appointed despite the existence of an appeal pending before a competent national court contesting the opinion in favour of the appointment of that judge)   
• Opinion in Case C-901/19 Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Notion of "serious and individual threats") - (Area of freedom, security and justice - Asylum policy - Serious and individual threats to the life or person of civilians by reason of indiscriminate violence in the event of internal or international armed conflict)  
• Judgment in Joined Cases C-407/19 Katoen Natie Bulk Terminals & General Services Antwerp & C-471/19 Middlegate Europe - (Port workers - Access to the profession and recruitment - Arrangements for the recognition of the said workers - Limitation of the duration of the employment contract - Mobility of the said workers between port areas - Employment of logistics workers) 
• Opinion in Case C-579/19 Food Standards Agency: (Official feed and food control - Post-mortem inspection of a bull carcass - Right of appeal against a decision of the official veterinarian declaring the carcass unfit for human consumption - National justice of the peace deciding on the food safety of the carcass) 
• Judgment in Case C-77/20 K.M. (Sanctions on ship captain): (Community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the common fisheries policy - Conservation of fishery resources through technical measures for the protection of juveniles of marine organisms - Principle of proportionality - Criminal proceedings - Use on board a fishing vessel of apparatus for the automatic classification of herring, mackerel or horse mackerel) 

EuGH-Hintergrundmaterialien (DE)

• Urteil des Gerichtshofs (Große Kammer) in der Rechtssache C‑481/19 Consob: Auskunftsverweigerungsrecht – Sanktionsbewehrte Pflicht zur Zusammenarbeit
• Urteil des Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache C-555/19 Fussl Modestraße Mayr: Verbot regionaler Werbung in bundesweiten Rundfunkprogrammen
• Urteil des Gerichtshofs in den verbundenen Rechtssachen C-155/19 und C-156/19 FIGC und Consorzio Ge.Se.Av.: Müssen nationale Sportverbände das Vergaberecht beachten?
• Urteil des Gerichtshofs in der Rechtssache C‑637/18 Kommission / Ungarn: Überschreitung der Grenzwerte für PM10

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