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The hearings of Mairead McGuinness, Commissioner-designate for financial services, financial stability and the Capital Markets Union, and of Commission Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis, designated for trade, will be held on 2 October. The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee will hear Ms McGuinness whilst the International Trade Committee will hear Mr Dombrovskis. The Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Economic and Monetary Affairs, on Development and on Budgets are invited to participate.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs will go over the situation in Afghanistan with EU Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Roland Kobia, on 1 October. This debate will take place two weeks after the launch of the direct Intra-Afghan Negotiations between the Government of Afghanistan and the Taliban movement, during which the prospects for a genuine peace process in the country and its impact on the EU-Afghanistan relations will be looked into.

The Budgetary Control Committee will vote on two, second draft reports for the last discharge cycle, specifically regarding the EU budget implementation by the Council and European Council, and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). The meeting will take place on 1 October.