Seduti ta’ smigħ
Kumitat jista' jorganizza seduta ta' smigħ ma' esperti fejn dan jitqies essenzjali għall-ħidma tiegħu fuq suġġett partikolari. Is-seduti ta' smigħ jistgħu jsiru wkoll b'mod konġunt minn żewġ kumitati jew aktar. Il-parti l-kbira tal-kumitati jorganizzaw seduti ta' smigħ regolari, billi dawn jippermettulhom li jisimgħu l-esperti u jagħmlu diskussjonijiet dwar kwistjonijiet ewlenin. F'din il-paġna ssib l-informazzjoni kollha disponibbli rigward is-seduti ta' smigħ tal-kumitati, inklużi l-programmi u l-kontributi mill-kelliema.
On 28 March 2023, from 16:00 to 17:30, the FISC Subcommittee will host a public hearing on “Case studies on member states national tax policies - Germany: implemented national tax reforms and the combat against aggressive tax schemes”
On Tuesday 28 March 2023, the Committee on Fisheries will hold a public hearing entitled "Marine pollution (in particular plastic pollution) and its impact on fisheries".
The Committee on Budgets will hold a public hearing on the EU budget and its impact on the EU external action and its crisis response capacity. The Committees on Foreign Affairs and Development are invited to participate in the hearing.
In the perspective of a possible convention for the revision of the EU Treaties, it is important to discuss the ways of strengthening the EU’s institutional, budgetary and decision-making arrangements in the common foreign and security policy by means of treaty changes.
On 22 March, the EMPL Committee will hold a public hearing on “Working conditions of firefighters”. The World Health Organisation recently re-classified firefighters as a profession that is vulnerable to carcinogenics. This hearing will inform the EMPL committee’s work in various areas, and in particular the ongoing revision of the Asbestos at Work Directive.
EU regions in a "development trap": Targeted solutions through cohesion policy instruments
On 21 March, the Committee on Development holds a public hearing on how to create sustainable and decent employment opportunities in Africa for its increasingly young population.
On 21 March 2023, DROI will hold a public hearing on "The state of human rights in Algeria in the framework of the renewed partnership with the Southern Neighbourhood" to discuss recent developments in the field of human rights and the rule of law in Algeria. The hearing will be held in association with the standing delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries (DMAG).
On 16 March 2023 PEGA Committee held a hearing on "Spyware and telecommunication companies". Members heard from several experts in this field.
On 16 March 2023 PEGA Committee held a hearing on "Geopolitics of Spyware II". It was be a continuation of the same hearing that took place on 9 February 2023, but had to be suspended due to the interpretation problems. This hearing followed up on the hearing organised by PEGA in December 2022 on "Spyware used in third countries and implications for EU foreign relations". Members heard from several victims targeted by spyware, as well as experts in this field.
On 9 March PEGA committee held an exchange of views on a European Security Lab / Research centre on spyware. The need to create a European Tech Centre modelled after what Citizen Lab and Amnesty International have put in place has been raised at several instances in the PEGA Committee discussions. The purpose of exchange was to come back with more precise answers to questions of how and what to have in the set up of such centre.
This public hearing on conscientious objection as a human right and in particular, Russian conscientious objectors aims to highlight how the human right to conscientious objection to military service must be enforced in all countries, including those at war, and how the EU could grant conscientious objectors further protection.