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Next committee meeting on 4 November 2019 in Brussels.

EU 2020 budget: plenary vote

BUDG 16-10-2019 - 16:58

Parliament will discuss and vote the amendments tabled to the Council's reading of the 2020 Draft Budget, during its plenary sittings of 22 and 23 October. The preparatory work has taken place within the Committee on Budgets, with Monika Hohlmeier (EPP) as General Rapporteur for the Commission's budget, and Eider Gardiazabal Rubial (S&D) as rapporteur for the other institutions' administrative budget. This vote gives Parliament a mandate for negotiations with Council on the EU Budget 2020.

Further information
Plenary agenda: October II
Procedure file: 2020 general budget: all sections
2020 budget in detail
EU Fact Sheets: Financing the EU

Taxonomy: joint committee vote

ECON ENVI 16-10-2019 - 16:58

The Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs and on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will vote on the start of interinstitutional negotiations on the proposed framework to facilitate sustainable investment - also known as the “taxonomy” proposal. Parliament’s first reading position of March strengthened, amongst others, the criteria establishing the degree of environmental sustainability of an investment made within the EU. The meeting will take place on 21 October 2019.

Further information
ECON/ENVI meeting agenda and documents
Legislative Observatory: Framework to facilitate sustainable investment

Human Rights Commissioner: committee debate

LIBE 16-10-2019 - 16:59

The Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs will go over the various aspects of the work of Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, which fall under the Committee’s remit. In terms of asylum and migration, this work focuses on search and rescue, reception conditions, rights of children on the move, and media freedom, amongst other things. The process of EU accession to the ECHR will also be looked at. The meeting will take place on 21 October 2019.