DEVE_OJ(2015)03-31_1

 

Committee on Development

 

DEVE(2015)0331_1
 

DRAFT AGENDA

Meeting

Tuesday 31 March 2015, 15.00 – 18.30

Wednesday 1 April 2015, 9.00 – 12.30 and 15.00 – 18.30

Brussels

Room: Altiero Spinelli (3G-3)

31 March 2015, 15.00 – 18.30

1.  Adoption of agenda

2.  Election of the Third Vice-Chair

3.  Approval of minutes of meetings of:

• 23-24 February 2015  PV – PE551.851v01-00

• 9 March 2015  PV – PE551.890v01-00

4.  Adoption of Coordinators' decisions and recommendations

  DEVE/8/01663

• Consideration and approval of Coordinators' decisions and recommendations of 24 February 2015

5.  Chair’s announcements

6.  Announcements by the Commission

  DEVE/8/01664

• Statement by the Commission (possibly)

7.  The Ebola Crisis: the long-term lessons and how to strengthen health systems in developing countries to prevent future crises

  DEVE/8/02133

    2014/2204(INI) 

• Consideration of working document

8.  Financing for Development

  DEVE/8/02766

    2015/2044(INI) 

• Consideration of draft report and amendments

• Deadline for tabling amendments: 24 March 2015, 18.00

9.  The effects of cyclone PAM on Vanuatu - EU response

  DEVE/8/03049

• Exchange of views with Susanne Mallaun, Head of Unit (Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, Pacific), European Commission DG ECHO

10.  EU Budget support

  DEVE/8/03037

• Presentation by Fernando Frutuoso de Melo, Director General, European Commission DG DEVCO (International Cooperation and Development)

1 April 2015, 9.00 – 10.30 (in camera)

11.  Coordinators' meeting

* * *

1 April 2015, 10.40 – 12.30

Jointly with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)

12.  The nexus between development and migration

  DEVE/8/03038

• Exchange of views

* * *

1 April 2015, 15.00 – 15.15

*** Voting time ***

13.  EU Member States' commitments to Official Development Assistance (ODA)

  DEVE/8/03003

    2015/2611(RSP) 

• Adoption of Oral Question

*** End of vote ***

1 April 2015, 15.15 – 18.30

14.  Follow up to the European Citizens' Initiative Right2Water

  DEVE/8/02294

    2014/2239(INI)  COM(2014)0177

• Consideration of draft opinion

15.  EU-Africa relations

  DEVE/8/03039

• Exchange of views with Nick Westcott, Director for Africa, EEAS

16.  Tax avoidance and tax evasion as challenges for governance, social protection and development in developing countries

  DEVE/8/02906

    2015/2058(INI) 

• Consideration of draft report

17.  Trade, Development and Cooperation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of South Africa, of the other part, to take account of the accession of Croatia to the EU

  DEVE/8/00994

  ***  2014/0236(NLE)  COM(2014)0517

• Consideration of draft report and amendments

• Deadline for tabling amendments: 1 April 2015, 12.00

18.  Question Time

19.  Any other business

20.  Next meetings

• 20 April 2015, 15.00 – 18.30 (Brussels)