Parliament has modified its agenda in the light of the air travel disruption: all the votes planned for this week will now take place at the next session on 5-6 May in Brussels. The agenda now also includes a debate on Tuesday morning with the Commission on the impact of the volcanic ash cloud and the resulting airspace closures.

MEPs will vote in Strasbourg on new energy efficiency legislation for buildings and the new layout of the EU energy efficiency label. These measures - which come in addition to the EU's 2008 climate change package - were agreed with the Council last year but need to be endorsed first by the Industry Committee on Monday and then by the full Parliament on Wednesday.

Aviation security measures that go beyond common EU requirements should be paid for by Member States, not passengers, says Parliament's Transport Committee.

Europeans flying outside the EU should be informed about any air carriers in non-EU countries that have been blacklisted by the EU, believes the Transport Committee. In a plenary debate, MEPs will ask the Commission how many other countries have adopted blacklist legislation similar to the EU's and how it can monitor compliance with international air safety standards outside the EU. Since 2005 the Commission has kept a regularly updated list of air carriers not allowed to fly in EU airspace.

MEPs will look at the way the EU budget was spent in 2008 and then decide whether to approve the financial management of each EU institution and agency that year, under the "budgetary discharge procedure". The Budgetary Control Committee has made recommendations to the institutions and agencies on how they can improve their budgetary management and is proposing that the discharge be granted to all except the Council of Ministers and the European police college.

The EU's 2006-2010 animal welfare action plan has been satisfactorily implemented but existing rules should be better enforced through more inspections and effective penalties, says a draft resolution by the Agriculture Committee.

Parliament's political groups will each highlight their legislative priorities for 2010 in a debate with Commission President Barroso, who has been invited to speak about the Commission's Legislative and Work Programme for this year. The programme focuses on four main areas: tackling the crisis and sustaining Europe’s social market economy, building a citizen's agenda, developing an ambitious external agenda and modernising the EU's ways of working.

Following debates with Council and Commission on data sharing issues, MEPs will vote on two resolutions, one restating Parliament's conditions for approving bank data transfers to the USA for anti-terrorism purposes via the SWIFT network, and the other suggesting a blueprint for a standard Passenger Name Record file model.