Highlights

The Committee on Budgetary Control will hold a hearing on the discharge to the European Parliament for the financial year 2021 on 1 December. The Members will hear Pedro Silva Pereira, Vice-President responsible for the Parliament's Budget, Klaus Welle, Parliament’s Secretary-General, Francis Clergeaud, Internal Auditor, and Pascal Schonard, Director of the Authority for European Political Parties and Political Foundations, in the presence of Marek Opioła, ECA Reporting Member.

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will debate the Commission Recommendation to Member States on immediate steps in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in relation to investor CBI and RBI, on 1 December. Discussions will take place against the background of Parliament's call for the urgent presentation of a legislative proposal to completely ban CBI schemes and to ban RBI schemes for Russian nationals subject to targeted measures.

The Committee on International Trade will discuss with the Commission the EU-Angola Sustainable Investment Facilitation Agreement on 30 November and 1 December. The Committee will also discuss the implementation of the association and trade agreements with Central America and the Andean countries. Finally, Members will debate with stakeholders representing workers, consumers and businesses before the next EU-US Trade and Technology Council meeting.

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will hold an Inter-parliamentary Committee Meeting on “The situation of the Rule of Law in the EU” on 1 December. The meeting will be dedicated to an assessment of the third Commission's rule of law report in the context of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights mechanism and it is a follow up of the inter-parliamentary meetings organised in 2020 and 2021.

The Special Committee on Foreign Interference in all Democratic Processes in the European Union, including Disinformation will hold an Inter-parliamentary meeting on "Legislative resilience, electoral laws and information manipulation campaigns" on 1 December. Members will exchange views with National Parliaments on how to build resilient democracies and on possible responses to actions of foreign interference.

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will vote on the provisional agreement reached between Parliament and Council on the emission standards for cars and vans on 1 December. Members will also vote on the provisional agreement reached on the CORSIA proposal, on the shipments of waste proposal, and on a number of "comitology" objections.