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Next FEMM and EMPL-LIBE-FEMM committee meetings - 12 July 2022


- 12 July June 9.00-12.30 FEMM
- 12 July 14.30-18.00 EMPL-LIBE-FEMM Interparliamentary committee meeting on the rights of Ukrainian women fleeing the war
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At the joint JURI-FEMM meeting of 16 June 2022, Members voted on the provisional agreement on the so-called “Women on Boards” Directive resulting from interinstitutional negotiations. On 7 June 2022 EP and Council negotiators reached a historic deal on this Directive that aims to introduce transparent recruitment procedures in companies, so that at least 40% of non-executive director posts or 33% of all director posts are occupied by the under-represented sex.

On Wednesday 15 June 2022, the FEMM and LIBE committees heard from the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator, Diane Schmitt, regarding the Anti-Trafficking Plan to protect people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

The FEMM committee adopted two reports on Thursday 16 June 2022. The Women’s poverty in Europe report (2021/2170(INI)), by rapporteur Lina Gálvez Muñoz (S&D), proposes measures to ensure that women's poverty in Europe is no longer the result of a lifetime of discrimination.

Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Vice-President of the European Parliament, presented the “Roadmap for the Implementation of the Gender Action Plan”. The Gender Action Plan was approved on 6 July 2020, and the corresponding Roadmap on 24 March 2021. These documents outline the vision and the concrete targets for the coming years.

FEMM opinion rapporteur presented her first amendments for the 2023 budget, following the publication of the Commission’s Statement of Estimates on 7 June 2022, and in advance of the publication of the draft budget on 1 July 2022 and the Council’s position on 13 July 2022.

On Thursday, 16 June 2022, the Policy Department for Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs, at the request of the FEMM Committee, organised a workshop entitled ‘Women and cancer prevention’.
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