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The Committees on Foreign Affairs, Development and Budgets will jointly debate the EU financing for the relief and reconstruction of Ukraine on 21 June. Ms Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, Chair of the Verkhovna Rada's Committee on Ukraine's integration into the EU, as well as Gert-Jan Koopman, Director-General of DG BUDG, Katarína Mathernová, Deputy-Director-General of DG NEAR, and Bernadette Frederick, Director in DG ECHO, will inform Members on the past and planned EU support to Ukraine.

The Committee on Development is organising a High-Level Panel on "Global health? Local answers: resilient health systems and medical training" within the European Development Days, on 21 June. The panel will address the issues of technology transfers, capacity-building and training of health workers to reach more resilient, sustainable and accessible health systems.

The Committee on Budgets will hold a hearing to assess the current and possible methodologies for tracking social and biodiversity spending in the EU budget and EU policies, on 21 June. The first panel - joint with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety - will look at the biodiversity tracking methodology set out by the Commission. The second panel will aim to provide an overview of possible social tracking methodologies for the EU budget and EU policies.

Special Committee’s on the COVID-19 pandemic will welcome for exchange of views Věra Jourová, Vice-President for Values and Transparency, on 21 June. The discussion will focus on the main challenges of COVID-19 on democracy and fundamental rights, the impact of the state of emergency and the restrictions on the fundamental rights of EU citizens.

The Committee on Budgets will vote on proposals for EU financial support for workers dismissed in France (Air France) and Greece (electrical manufacturing) on 20 June. Researchers will present their study on new own resources: possibilities and limitations of steering effects and sectoral policy co-benefits. The Committee also will hold a hearing to assess the current and possible methodologies for tracking social and biodiversity spending in the EU budget and EU policies.

The Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality will vote on the joint report "Towards a common European action on Care" on 21 June. The care workforce is mostly constituted of women. Ensuring proper working conditions and wages for care workers is thus a gender equality matter. The report aims to ensure a long-term EU strategy for the care sector, ensuring that both care workers' and care receivers' rights are properly considered.