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Plenary session of Euro-Med Assembly

Mandag 16/03/2009 - 09:00 - 19:00 Brussels, European Parliament
Tirsdag 17/03/2009 - 09:00 - 19:00 Brussels, European Parliament
The situation in the Middle East and the impact of the world financial crisis on the Mediterranean region will be the main points for debate at the fifth plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) taking place from 15 to 17 March at the European Parliament in Brussels, beginning with a meeting of the Bureau on Sunday.

Following the plenary session, Abdel Hadi Al-Majali, Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament, will take the reins of EMPA for a year (until March 2010), succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering, President of the European Parliament and current president of EMPA.

EMPA may also decide to welcome, as new members of the Assembly, Albania, Mauritania and Monaco, which are also members of the Union for the Mediterranean.
 
EMPA brings together 260 parliamentarians. Of these, 130 represent the European Union (49 Members of the EP and 81 Members appointed by the national parliaments of the EU's 27 Member States) and 130 represent the national parliaments of the Mediterranean partner countries which are not members of the EU: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
 
 

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Thomas DUDRAP

 

Plenary session of Euro-Med Assembly: Extraordinary meeting of the Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights

Mandag 16/03/2009 - 10:00 - 11:30 Brussels, ASP 5G3

Extraordinary meeting of the EMPA Committee on Political Affairs, Security and Human Rights, in the presence:

  • of the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs and President-in-office of the Council of the EU, Karel Schwarzenberg

  • of the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit

  • and of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Kouchner

 
 

Kontakt

Thomas DUDRAP
Press Service

 

War remnants and the pollution of the sea

Mandag 16/03/2009 - 17:15 - 18:30 Brussels, ASP 3G2

The EP Subcommittee on Security and Defence is holding a workshop on pollution of the sea by wartime debris. One participant will be John Hart, of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) Project, who will present a study called "An Introduction to the Political and Technical Challenges Posed by Sea-dumped Chemical and Conventional Weapons: The Case of the Baltic Sea".


Speakers also include Jeffrey Osborne (Verification Division, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague) and Marc Koch (Evonik New Energies, Saarbrücken).

 
 

Kontakt

Thomas DUDRAP
Press Service

 

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Conference on the European Patent System

Tirsdag 17/03/2009 - 09:00 - 18:30 Brussels, PHS 1A2

European intellectual property rights and patents policy will take centre stage at a conference organised by Parliament's scientific research panel STOA. MEPs, experts and industry stakeholders will discuss issues such as creating a Community Patent, enforcing patents via an EU Patent Litigation System, reducing the backlog of patents, and the use of existing patents.


A round table discussion from 17:00 to 18:30 will assess the possibility of establishing a standing committee on intellectual property rights within the European Parliament.


Speakers include:

- Alison Brimelow, President of European Patent Office

- Guus Broesterhuizen, President of the Netherlands Patent Office

- Josef Kratochvil, Vice-President of the Czech Industrial Property Office

 
 

Kontakt

Julianne KAMMER

 

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June 2009 European elections – communication strategy presentation

Tirsdag 17/03/2009 - 10:30 - 11:30 Brussels, ASP 3rd floor (VoxBox area)

European Parliament Vice-Presidents Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Mechtild Rothe invite journalists to a presentation of Parliament's communication strategy for the European elections of 4-7 June 2009.

 
 

Kontakt

Federico DE GIROLAMO
Press Service

 

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Conciliation Committee - Working Time Directive

Tirsdag 17/03/2009 - 20:30 - 22:00 Brussels, ASP 5G3

The conciliation committee convenes on Tuesday evening, beginning a series of meetings which are the last chance to reach an agreement between Parliament and Council on Working Time Directive. (The meeting is not opened to the media)

 
 

Kontakt

Nora CHAAL
Press Service

 
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