Missions

A committee can decide to organise missions to a member state, a country outside of the EU or to international conferences. Missions are undertaken in the exercise of the powers conferred on the committee and are composed of a limited numbers of members of the committee. Committees may also send, for no more than three days, a three-member delegation to agencies for which they are principally responsible. On this page you will find all the available information relating to specific missions.

The Members of JURI Committee meeting the representatives of the Court of Justice. Photo is taken at the Court of Justice and European flags are in the background.

The first annual dialogue between the European Parliament and the CJEU was held in Luxembourg on 20 March 2024. A delegation from the Parliament’s competent committee, Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), comprising its Chair and Members representing the various political groups, was welcomed by the President of the Court of Justice, who was accompanied by a delegation comprising Members of the Court of Justice and the General Court holding the most eminent positions.

On 20-24 June 2023, a delegation of the Committee on Legal Affairs visited San Francisco and Silicon Valley, California, USA. The mission was organised to explore the following topics: artificial intelligence, including questions of civil liability; virtual worlds and the Metaverse (ethics, civil law, intellectual property); microprocessors (IP protection aspects; trade secrets protection; standard essential patents and compulsory licensing of patents);

The joint JURI-AFCO fact-finding journey to the Czech Republic has been organised in the framework of the own-initiative report on the implementation of the principle of primacy of EU law - under Rule 58 of the Rules of Procedure (joint committee procedure 2022/2143(INI)) - for which Yana Toom (JURI) and Cyrus Engerer (AFCO) have been appointed Rapporteurs.

On 22-23 February 2023, six Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs visited the headquarters of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, the main European agency for which the JURI Committee is responsible, in order to discuss current and upcoming Commission proposals in the area of intellectual property.

The JURI Committee leads on the proposal for a Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law (2021/0422(COD)), on the proposals for a Directive on corporate sustainability reporting (2021/0104 (COD)) and for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (2022/0051(COD)). The so-called IP Package from the European Commission has been dealt with by this Committee and has comprised several legislative files,