The Week Ahead February 2016

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1 The Week Ahead February 2016 Delegations Turkey/refugees. Two delegations from the Budgets and the Civil Liberties committees will be in Turkey. Budgets MEPs will discuss the use of European pre-accession funds with Turkish authorities and investigate the use of EU support measures for refugees from Syria and Iraq, inter alia by visiting a refugee camp. Civil liberties MEPs will also visit a refugee camp and other refugee support projects as well as meeting Turkish interlocutors, international NGOs and other partners to assess the situation on the ground. (Monday to Thursday) Germany/refugees. The Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee will send a delegation to Munich to meet Bavarian local authorities and visit a unit that places female refugees and another refugee camp to study reception arrangements for female asylum seekers. (Wednesday to Friday) Human trafficking. A delegation of the Security and Defence Sub-committee will visit an EU naval operation fighting human smugglers ("Operation Sofia") and meet the Italian Minister of Interior and Members of Parliament to discuss EU-supported operations tackling irregular migration and learn from Italy's experience in conducting such operations. (Monday to Wednesday) Saudi Arabia and Qatar. A Foreign Affairs Committee delegation will travel to Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar, to discuss EU-Saudi Arabian and EU-Qatari relations and the situation in neighbouring Arab states. (Monday to Wednesday) President's diary. President Schulz will pay an official visit to Tunisia, where he will meet President of the Republic Beji Caid Essebsi, Prime Minister Habib Essid and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Ennaceur. He will address the Tunisian Parliament and also meet representatives of the opposition and the civil society, including the National Dialogue Quartet Nobel Peace Prize laureates. (Monday to Wednesday) EP Press Service contact during the weekend Delphine COLARD Phone: (+32) EN Press Service Directorate for the Media Director - Spokesperson : Jaume DUCH GUILLOT Reference No: APR12318 Press switchboard number (32-2) /15

2 Monday 08/02/2016 THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY The President's Official visit to Tunisia DELEGATIONS AFET delegation to Saudi Arabia and Qatar Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar 8-10 February 2016 Elmar BROK (EPP, DE) will chair the EP delegation visiting Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar. He will be joined by Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP, HR), Arnaud DANJEAN (EPP, FR), Tokia SAÏFI (EPP, FR), Afzal KHAN (S&D, UK), Pier Antonio PANZERI (S&D, IT), Mark DEMESMAEKER (ECR, BE) and Jozo RADOŠ (ALDE, HR). During the first part of the visit on 8-9 February, MEPs will meet in Riyad with high representatives of the Saudi Arabian authorities and with their counterparts of the Shura Council, the Constitutive Assembly of Saudi Arabia. They will discuss EU-Saudi Arabian relations, the political, economic and security situation in the Kingdom as well as the situation in neighbouring Arab states and Saudi Arabia's role in the region. The second part of the visit, on 9-10 February, will take place in Doha, Qatar where members of the AFET delegation will meet with the leadership representatives of the Qatar's monarchy as well as with the speaker of the Majlis as-shura, the Consultative Assembly of Qatar to discuss EU-Qatari relations and the situation in the region. Emilie TOURNIER BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_ForeignAff SEDE delegation to ROME Rome, Italy 8-10 February A delegation of the Security and Defence Sub-committee of the European Parliament, led by its chair Ms. Anna Fotyga (ECR, PL), will visit the EU naval operation against human smugglers in the Mediterranean ("Operation Sofia") in Rome on 8-10 February MEPs will meet EUNAVFOR Sofia leadership as well as Italian ministers and Members of Parliament to discuss the challenges EU is facing in Southern Mediterranean and to see what role EU tools, in particular CSDP missions and operations, can play in tackling the 2/15

3 problem of irregular migration. Gediminas VILKAS BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Defence Legal Affairs mission to the Netherlands The Netherlands/the Hague and Utrecht 8-9 February 2016 MEPs from the Legal Affairs Committee will visit the International Court of Justice, Eurojust, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Academie voor wetgeving and Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, in the Hague and Utrecht on 8-9 February. Purpose of the visit is to discuss better law-making, private international law, international arbitration and judicial cooperation in the EU. They will also have a meeting with Dutch Minister for Security and Justice Ard van der Steur, as well as experts on gender equality law. Heidi HAUTALA (Greens/EFA, FI), will head the delegation. She will be joined by Julia REDA (Greens/EFA, DE) and Joëlle BERGERON (EFDD, FR). Niina SALORANTA BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) lega-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Legal PETI delegation to Spain Fact finding visit to Spain 8-10 February 2016 The Committee on Petitions is organising a Fact-finding visit to Spain on 8-10 February The purpose of the visit is to meet with Spanish authorities and civil society to exchange views on the petitions related to the possible infringement on a number of environmental directives through proposed local hydrological river basin management plans. The geographical areas concerned are the Ebro and Tajo rivers. MEPs participating in the mission: Mr. Pál CSÁKY- Chair of the Delegation (EPP, Slovakia) Ms. Julia PITERA (EPP, Poland) Ms. Kostadinka KUNEVA (GUE/NGL, Greece) Ms. Bodil VALERO(Greens, Sweden) Ms. Tatjana ŽDANOKA (Greens, Latvia) 3/15

4 Ms. Eleonora EVI (EFDD, Italy) Location: Spain Viktor ALMQVIST BXL: +32 (0) TRAN Delegation to Finland A delegation of the European Parliament Transport and Tourism committee will visit Finland to discuss issues in rail and air transport, road safety, use of alternative fuels and tourism with officials from the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland, members of parliament, transport operators, transport safety officials, and researchers in the field of transport and tourism. Members of the delegation: chair of the committee Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE), Elżbieta ŁUKACIJEWSKA (EPP, PL), Markus FERBER (EPP, DE), Henna VIRKKUNEN (EPP, FI), Lucy ANDERSON (S&D, UK), Claudia TAPARDEL (S&D, RO), Roberts ZĪLE (ECR, LV), Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (ALDE, ES), Merja KYLLÖNEN (GUE/NGL, FI), Peter LUNDGREN (EFDD, SE) Jaan SOONE BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) tran-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Transport 16:00-22:00 BUDG delegation to Turkey An eleven-member delegation of the Committee on Budgets, presided by Chair Jean ARTHUIS (ALDE, FR), will travel to Turkey from 8 to 10 February with the double aim of assessing recent EU support measures for refugees from Syria and Iraq in Turkey and discussing the use of European Pre-Accession funds with the Turkish authorities. Armin WISDORFF BXL: (+32) PORT: budg-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Budgets 4/15

5 Tuesday 09/02/2016 THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY The President's Official visit to Tunisia PRESS CONFERENCES 10:00-10:30 Brussels, Paul-Henri Spaak, 0A050 "Why not vote CETA? Presentation of the study 'Analysis of the conformity of CETA with the European Parliament's 8 July 2015 Resolution on TTIP'" Maria ARENA (S&D, IT), Kathleen VAN BREMPT (S&D, BE) and Ferdi DE VILLE DELEGATIONS AFET delegation to Saudi Arabia and Qatar Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar 8-10 February 2016 Elmar BROK (EPP, DE) will chair the EP delegation visiting Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar. He will be joined by Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP, HR), Arnaud DANJEAN (EPP, FR), Tokia SAÏFI (EPP, FR), Afzal KHAN (S&D, UK), Pier Antonio PANZERI (S&D, IT), Mark DEMESMAEKER (ECR, BE) and Jozo RADOŠ (ALDE, HR). During the first part of the visit on 8-9 February, MEPs will meet in Riyad with high representatives of the Saudi Arabian authorities and with their counterparts of the Shura Council, the Constitutive Assembly of Saudi Arabia. They will discuss EU-Saudi Arabian relations, the political, economic and security situation in the Kingdom as well as the situation in neighbouring Arab states and Saudi Arabia's role in the region. The second part of the visit, on 9-10 February, will take place in Doha, Qatar where members of the AFET delegation will meet with the leadership representatives of the Qatar's monarchy as well as with the speaker of the Majlis as-shura, the Consultative Assembly of Qatar to discuss EU-Qatari relations and the situation in the region. Emilie TOURNIER BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_ForeignAff SEDE delegation to ROME 5/15

6 Rome, Italy 8-10 February A delegation of the Security and Defence Sub-committee of the European Parliament, led by its chair Ms. Anna Fotyga (ECR, PL), will visit the EU naval operation against human smugglers in the Mediterranean ("Operation Sofia") in Rome on 8-10 February MEPs will meet EUNAVFOR Sofia leadership as well as Italian ministers and Members of Parliament to discuss the challenges EU is facing in Southern Mediterranean and to see what role EU tools, in particular CSDP missions and operations, can play in tackling the problem of irregular migration. Gediminas VILKAS BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Defence Legal Affairs mission to the Netherlands The Netherlands/the Hague and Utrecht 8-9 February 2016 MEPs from the Legal Affairs Committee will visit the International Court of Justice, Eurojust, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Academie voor wetgeving and Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, in the Hague and Utrecht on 8-9 February. Purpose of the visit is to discuss better law-making, private international law, international arbitration and judicial cooperation in the EU. They will also have a meeting with Dutch Minister for Security and Justice Ard van der Steur, as well as experts on gender equality law. Heidi HAUTALA (Greens/EFA, FI), will head the delegation. She will be joined by Julia REDA (Greens/EFA, DE) and Joëlle BERGERON (EFDD, FR). Niina SALORANTA BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) lega-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Legal PETI delegation to Spain Fact finding visit to Spain 8-10 February 2016 The Committee on Petitions is organising a Fact-finding visit to Spain on 8-10 February The purpose of the visit is to meet with Spanish authorities and civil society to exchange views on the petitions related to the possible infringement on a number of environmental directives through proposed local hydrological river basin management plans. The geographical areas concerned are the Ebro and Tajo rivers. 6/15

7 MEPs participating in the mission: Mr. Pál CSÁKY- Chair of the Delegation (EPP, Slovakia) Ms. Julia PITERA (EPP, Poland) Ms. Kostadinka KUNEVA (GUE/NGL, Greece) Ms. Bodil VALERO(Greens, Sweden) Ms. Tatjana ŽDANOKA (Greens, Latvia) Ms. Eleonora EVI (EFDD, Italy) Location: Spain Viktor ALMQVIST BXL: +32 (0) TRAN Delegation to Finland A delegation of the European Parliament Transport and Tourism committee will visit Finland to discuss issues in rail and air transport, road safety, use of alternative fuels and tourism with officials from the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland, members of parliament, transport operators, transport safety officials, and researchers in the field of transport and tourism. Members of the delegation: chair of the committee Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE), Elżbieta ŁUKACIJEWSKA (EPP, PL), Markus FERBER (EPP, DE), Henna VIRKKUNEN (EPP, FI), Lucy ANDERSON (S&D, UK), Claudia TAPARDEL (S&D, RO), Roberts ZĪLE (ECR, LV), Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (ALDE, ES), Merja KYLLÖNEN (GUE/NGL, FI), Peter LUNDGREN (EFDD, SE) Jaan SOONE BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) tran-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Transport 09:00-22:00 BUDG delegation to Turkey An eleven-member delegation of the Committee on Budgets, presided by Chair Jean ARTHUIS (ALDE, FR), will travel to Turkey from 8 to 10 February with the double aim of assessing recent EU support measures for refugees from Syria and Iraq in Turkey and discussing the use of European Pre-Accession funds with the Turkish authorities. 7/15

8 Armin WISDORFF BXL: (+32) PORT: budg-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Budgets 13:00-19:00 PECH Delegation to Guinea-Bissau João FERREIRA (GUE/NGL, PT) - Head of Delegation, Ricardo SERRAO SANTOS (S&D, PT), Clara AGUILERA GARCIA (S&D, ES) and Lídia SENRA RODRIGUEZ (GUE/NGL, ES) A delegation of 4 MEPs will visit Guinea-Bissau. MEPs will meet among others with the Prime Minister and the State Secretaries for Fisheries and Transport. MEPs will also make on the spot visits to the Port of Bissau, and the fisheries harbour of Alto Bandim where it will hold meetings with sector representatives. Κριστίνα-Αντιγόνη ΕΛEΦΤΕΡΙΕ BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) pech-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Fisheries 8/15

9 Wednesday 10/02/2016 THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY The President's Official visit to Tunisia DELEGATIONS AFET delegation to Saudi Arabia and Qatar Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar 8-10 February 2016 Elmar BROK (EPP, DE) will chair the EP delegation visiting Riyad, Saudi Arabia and Doha, Qatar. He will be joined by Andrej PLENKOVIĆ (EPP, HR), Arnaud DANJEAN (EPP, FR), Tokia SAÏFI (EPP, FR), Afzal KHAN (S&D, UK), Pier Antonio PANZERI (S&D, IT), Mark DEMESMAEKER (ECR, BE) and Jozo RADOŠ (ALDE, HR). During the first part of the visit on 8-9 February, MEPs will meet in Riyad with high representatives of the Saudi Arabian authorities and with their counterparts of the Shura Council, the Constitutive Assembly of Saudi Arabia. They will discuss EU-Saudi Arabian relations, the political, economic and security situation in the Kingdom as well as the situation in neighbouring Arab states and Saudi Arabia's role in the region. The second part of the visit, on 9-10 February, will take place in Doha, Qatar where members of the AFET delegation will meet with the leadership representatives of the Qatar's monarchy as well as with the speaker of the Majlis as-shura, the Consultative Assembly of Qatar to discuss EU-Qatari relations and the situation in the region. Emilie TOURNIER BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_ForeignAff ITRE delegation to Ljubljana Between 10 and 12 February, a delegation of eight MEPs: Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT), Maria SPYRAKI (EPP, EL), Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN (EPP, RO), Jeppe KOFOD (S&D,DK), Flavio ZANONATO (S&D, IT), Carlos ZORRINHO (S&D, PT), Morten Helveg PETERSEN (ALDE, DK), Nicolay BAREKOV (ECR,BG) will visit the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and Jozef Stefan Institute (Reactor Centre) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They will discuss with the ACER representatives, inter alia, the main challenges in completing the internal energy market and will have a live demonstration of the gas network codes functionality platform. During the visit at the Reactor Centre, the delegation will participate in a presentation on several research topics related to nuclear energy. 9/15

10 SEDE delegation to ROME Rome, Italy 8-10 February A delegation of the Security and Defence Sub-committee of the European Parliament, led by its chair Ms. Anna Fotyga (ECR, PL), will visit the EU naval operation against human smugglers in the Mediterranean ("Operation Sofia") in Rome on 8-10 February MEPs will meet EUNAVFOR Sofia leadership as well as Italian ministers and Members of Parliament to discuss the challenges EU is facing in Southern Mediterranean and to see what role EU tools, in particular CSDP missions and operations, can play in tackling the problem of irregular migration. Gediminas VILKAS BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) foreign-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Defence PETI delegation to Spain Fact finding visit to Spain 8-10 February 2016 The Committee on Petitions is organising a Fact-finding visit to Spain on 8-10 February The purpose of the visit is to meet with Spanish authorities and civil society to exchange views on the petitions related to the possible infringement on a number of environmental directives through proposed local hydrological river basin management plans. The geographical areas concerned are the Ebro and Tajo rivers. MEPs participating in the mission: Mr. Pál CSÁKY- Chair of the Delegation (EPP, Slovakia) Ms. Julia PITERA (EPP, Poland) Ms. Kostadinka KUNEVA (GUE/NGL, Greece) Ms. Bodil VALERO(Greens, Sweden) Ms. Tatjana ŽDANOKA (Greens, Latvia) Ms. Eleonora EVI (EFDD, Italy) Location: Spain Viktor ALMQVIST BXL: +32 (0) /15

11 TRAN Delegation to Finland A delegation of the European Parliament Transport and Tourism committee will visit Finland to discuss issues in rail and air transport, road safety, use of alternative fuels and tourism with officials from the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland, members of parliament, transport operators, transport safety officials, and researchers in the field of transport and tourism. Members of the delegation: chair of the committee Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE), Elżbieta ŁUKACIJEWSKA (EPP, PL), Markus FERBER (EPP, DE), Henna VIRKKUNEN (EPP, FI), Lucy ANDERSON (S&D, UK), Claudia TAPARDEL (S&D, RO), Roberts ZĪLE (ECR, LV), Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (ALDE, ES), Merja KYLLÖNEN (GUE/NGL, FI), Peter LUNDGREN (EFDD, SE) Jaan SOONE BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) tran-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Transport 08:00-19:00 PECH Delegation to Guinea-Bissau João FERREIRA (GUE/NGL, PT) - Head of Delegation, Ricardo SERRAO SANTOS (S&D, PT), Clara AGUILERA GARCIA (S&D, ES) and Lídia SENRA RODRIGUEZ (GUE/NGL, ES) A delegation of 4 MEPs will visit Guinea-Bissau. MEPs will meet among others with the Prime Minister and the State Secretaries for Fisheries and Transport. MEPs will also make on the spot visits to the Port of Bissau, and the fisheries harbour of Alto Bandim where it will hold meetings with sector representatives. Κριστίνα-Αντιγόνη ΕΛEΦΤΕΡΙΕ BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) pech-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Fisheries 09:00-22:00 BUDG delegation to Turkey An eleven-member delegation of the Committee on Budgets, presided by Chair Jean ARTHUIS (ALDE, FR), will travel to Turkey from 8 to 10 February with the double aim of assessing recent EU support measures for refugees from Syria and Iraq in Turkey and discussing the use of European Pre-Accession funds with the Turkish authorities. 11/15

12 Armin WISDORFF BXL: (+32) PORT: budg-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Budgets 12/15

13 Thursday 11/02/2016 DELEGATIONS 08:40-18:00 ITRE delegation to Ljubljana Between 10 and 12 February, a delegation of eight MEPs: Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT), Maria SPYRAKI (EPP, EL), Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN (EPP, RO), Jeppe KOFOD (S&D,DK), Flavio ZANONATO (S&D, IT), Carlos ZORRINHO (S&D, PT), Morten Helveg PETERSEN (ALDE, DK), Nicolay BAREKOV (ECR,BG) will visit the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and Jozef Stefan Institute (Reactor Centre) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They will discuss with the ACER representatives, inter alia, the main challenges in completing the internal energy market and will have a live demonstration of the gas network codes functionality platform. During the visit at the Reactor Centre, the delegation will participate in a presentation on several research topics related to nuclear energy. TRAN Delegation to Finland A delegation of the European Parliament Transport and Tourism committee will visit Finland to discuss issues in rail and air transport, road safety, use of alternative fuels and tourism with officials from the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Finland, members of parliament, transport operators, transport safety officials, and researchers in the field of transport and tourism. Members of the delegation: chair of the committee Michael CRAMER (Greens/EFA, DE), Elżbieta ŁUKACIJEWSKA (EPP, PL), Markus FERBER (EPP, DE), Henna VIRKKUNEN (EPP, FI), Lucy ANDERSON (S&D, UK), Claudia TAPARDEL (S&D, RO), Roberts ZĪLE (ECR, LV), Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (ALDE, ES), Merja KYLLÖNEN (GUE/NGL, FI), Peter LUNDGREN (EFDD, SE) Jaan SOONE BXL: (+32) STR: (+33) PORT: (+32) tran-press@europarl.europa.eu TWITTER: EP_Transport 13/15

14 Friday 12/02/2016 DELEGATIONS 08:50-14:00 ITRE delegation to Ljubljana Between 10 and 12 February, a delegation of eight MEPs: Paul RÜBIG (EPP, AT), Maria SPYRAKI (EPP, EL), Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN (EPP, RO), Jeppe KOFOD (S&D,DK), Flavio ZANONATO (S&D, IT), Carlos ZORRINHO (S&D, PT), Morten Helveg PETERSEN (ALDE, DK), Nicolay BAREKOV (ECR,BG) will visit the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and Jozef Stefan Institute (Reactor Centre) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They will discuss with the ACER representatives, inter alia, the main challenges in completing the internal energy market and will have a live demonstration of the gas network codes functionality platform. During the visit at the Reactor Centre, the delegation will participate in a presentation on several research topics related to nuclear energy. 14/15

15 Saturday 13/02/2016 THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY The President's Munich Security Conference 10:50 Participating in the panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference: "Current International Security Challenges" - Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Promenadeplatz 2-6, 80333, Munich 15/15