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Resumption of session and order of business
Renewable energy in the European internal energy market - Report: Herbert Reul
***I - Offshore oil and gas prospection, exploration and production activities - Report: Ivo Belet
Voluntary permanent Union relocation scheme: Oral question to the Commission
Joint debate - Application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the Czech Republic
* Draft protocol on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the Czech Republic (consultation) - Report: Andrew Duff
*** Draft protocol on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union to the Czech Republic (consent) - Recommendation: Andrew Duff
One-minute speeches (Rule 150)
Short presentations of the following reports:
- Women's rights in the Balkan accession countries: Report: Marije Cornelissen
- EU Charter: standard settings for media freedom across the EU: Report: Renate Weber
- Implementation of the audiovisual media services directive: Report: Piotr Borys
- Adequate, safe and sustainable pensions: Report: Ria Oomen-Ruijten
- Takeover bids: Report: Klaus-Heiner Lehne
- Regional strategies for industrial areas in the European Union: Report: Jens Geier
Discussion with Jean-Yves Le DRIAN, Minister of Defence of France
Reforming the structure of the EU banking sector (INI) - Consideration of amendments to a resolution - Report by Arlene MCCARTHY (S&D, UK) (19.30)
Votes (20.30)
Future legislative proposals on EMU (RSP) - Vote on motion for a resolution
Framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms and amendment of Council Directives 77/91/EEC and 82/891/EC, Directives 2001/24/EC, 2002/47/EC, 2004/25/EC, 2005/56/EC, 2007/36/EC and 2011/35/EC and Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 (COD) - Vote on a directive. Report by Gunnar HÖKMARK (EPP, SE)
Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 994/98 on the application of Articles 92 and 93 of the Treaty establishing the EC to certain categories of horizontal State aid and Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 on public passenger transport services by rail and by road (NLE) - Vote on a regulation. Report by Herbert DORFMANN (EPP, IT)
Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 659/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Article 93 of the EC Treaty (NLE) - Vote on the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU TFEU 109. Report by Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN (EPP, FI)
End of votes
European statistics on demography - Discussion with the Council (19.15-20.45)
Vote
Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (COD) - Vote on a regulation. Report by Emer COSTELLO (S&D)
End of vote
European Social Fund (ESF) - Discussion with the Council (20.45-21.00)
08:30 - 12:20
KEY DEBATE
Joint debate - European Council meeting (22 May 2013) - tax fraud and tax havens
Preparations for the European Council meeting (22 May 2013)- Council and Commission statements
- Fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and tax havens - Report: Mojca Kleva Kekuš
- Annual tax report: how to free the EU potential for economic growth - Report: Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz
12:30 - 14:30
VOTES followed by explanations of votes
- Request for defence of the immunity of Gabriele Albertini - Report: Bernhard Rapkay
- Request for waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Spyros Danellis - Report: Eva Lichtenberger
- Request for waiver of the parliamentary immunity of Spyros Danellis- Report: Eva Lichtenberger
*** - EU-Sri Lanka Agreement on certain aspects of air services - Recommendation: Petri Sarvamaa
*** - Enhanced cooperation between the European Union and the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation - Report: Jaromír Kohlíček
*** - Amendment of Regulation (EEC/Euratom) No 354/83, as regards the deposit of the historical archives of the institutions at the European University Institute in Florence - Report: Doris Pack
* - Period for the eighth election of representatives to the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage - Report: Carlo Casini
- Takeover bids - Report: Klaus-Heiner Lehne
Texts on which debate is closed
15:00 - 23:00
Joint debate - Banking union - single supervisory mechanism
* - Specific tasks for the European Central Bank concerning policies relating to the prudential supervision of credit institutions - Report: Marianne Thyssen
***I - European Banking Authority and prudential supervision of credit institutions - Report: Sven Giegold
Draft WIPO Treaty on copyright exceptions for the visually impaired - Council and Commission statements
Implementation of the Stockholm Programme and establishment of the area of freedom, security and justice - Oral question to the Commission and Council
Addressing the issue of inheritance tax following the adoption of the Successions Regulation (No650/2012)- Commission statement
Deadlock on the revision of Regulation - Commission statement
12:00 Meeting with Neven MIMICA, Commissioner-designate for consumer protection - Louise Weiss building (LOW), President's office (15th floor)
12:45 LEX signing : Louise Weiss (LOW) building, Protocol room H 060
15:00 Meeting with Nikiforos DIAMANDOUROS, European Ombudsman - Louise Weiss building (LOW), President's office (15th floor)
16:30 Meeting with José Manuel BARROSO, President of the European Commission - Louise Weiss building (LOW), President's office (15th floor)
08:30 - 11:50
***I - Mutual recognition of protection measures in civil matters - Report: Antonio López-Istúriz White, Antonyia Parvanova
Future legislative proposals on EMU - Oral question to the Commission
Social pillar of economic and monetary union - Commission statement
12:00 - 14:00
VOTES followed by explanations of votes
***I - Pyrotechnic articles - Report: Zuzana Roithová
*** - EU-Canada Agreement on customs cooperation with respect to matters related to supply chain security - Recommendation: Peter Štastný
Texts on which debate is closed
15:00 - 23:00
Situation of Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries - Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Asset recovery to Arab Spring countries in transition - Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
2012 progress report on Bosnia and Herzegovina- Council and Commission statements
2012 progress report on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - Council and Commission statements
EU trade and investment agreement negotiations with the US - Council and Commission statements
Joint debate - Myanmar/Burma's access to generalised tariff preferences
***I - Reinstatement of Myanmar/Burma's access to generalized tariff preferences - Report: David Martin
Myanmar/Burma's access to generalised tariff preferences - Commission statement
Joint debate - EU law and international investment law
***I - Establishing a framework for managing financial responsibility linked to investor-state dispute settlement tribunals established by international agreements to which the EU is party - Report: Paweł Zalewski
Bilateral investment treaties and EU law - Oral question to the Commission
11:00 Meeting with Nicos ANASTASIADES, President of Cyprus, followed by a press point - Paul-Henri Spaak building (PHS), 9th Floor, Grand salon protocolaire
13:00 Participating in the European Council meeting - Justus Lipsius
13:30 Family photo - Justus Lipsius
14:00 Press conference- Justus Lipsius
08:30 - 11:50
A macro-regional strategy for the Alps - Oral question to the Commission
Commission statement - Labour conditions and health and safety standards following the recent factory fires and building collapse in Bangladesh
Joint debate - Pet animals
***I - Non-commercial movement of pet animals - Report: Horst Schnellhardt
***I - Animal health requirements governing trade in dogs, cats and ferrets - Report: Horst Schnellhardt
12:00 - 14:00
VOTES followed by explanations of votes
***I - Community Customs Code as regards the date of its application - Report: Constance Le Grip
Texts on which debate is closed
15:00 - 16:00
Debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law - One hour maximum (Rule 122)
- Guantánamo: hunger strike by prisoners
- India: execution of Mohammad Afzal Guru and its implications
- Rwanda: case of Victoire Ingabire
16:00 - 17:00
Votes (at the end of the preceding debates)
Motions for resolutions concerning debates on cases of breaches of human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Rule 122)
11:00 Celebrating 150 years of the Social Democratic Party of Germany - Marktplatz, Leipzig
Discussion with a Delegation of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Mexican Parliament, led by Senator Gabriela Cuevas, on EU-Mexico relations and common foreign policy challenges
Hearing on recent political developments and implementation of reforms in Ukraine
09:30 Conference Jean-Jaurès Foundation and the FEPS - What is the way towards the political and economic integration of the Eurozone? - Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterrand, Grand auditorium