(EP PETI) Next week in the Petitions Committee - 26 January 2021

Date of article: 22/01/2021

Daily News of: 22/01/2021

Country:  EUROPE

Author: Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament

Article language: en

 

Press alert

22-01-2021

Committee on Petitions

   

 

 

 

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 9.00-11.00 and 11.30-12.30

and 13.45-15.45 and 16.15-18.45

By remote connection via Spaak (room 1A2)

 

Votes

final vote from 16.15 -17.00

Report on the activities of the European Ombudsman in 2019, rapporteur Sylvie Guillaume (S&D, FR) adoption of draft report

Report on the Fact-finding Visit to Bulgaria, adoption of draft report

Debate

Strengthening transparency and integrity in the EU institutions by setting up an independent EU ethics body, Radan Kanev (EPP, BG), consideration of draft opinion

 

Discussion on petitions

Fundamental rights: petitions 70/2012 and 2098/2014 from Hungary and Slovakia on the Beneš decrees (with the participation of one petitioner)

Petitions 0354/2020 and 0448/2020 from Germany on LGBTI-free zones in Poland

 

Employment: petitions 1241/2019 and 0302/2017 from Spain and Italy on the situation of nurses working under fixed-term contracts (with the participation of one petitioner)

Petition 0937/2020 on the protection of Romanian seasonal and social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (with the participation of the petitioner)

Environment: petition 0148/2020 from Italy on a request to put an end to excessive land use in southern Milan (with the participation of the petitioner)

COVID-19: petition 0871/2020 from Italy on COVID-19 testing at EU external borders

 

Petition 1032/2020 from Italy on EU rules allowing international couples to meet (with the participation of the petitioner)

Petition 1031/2020 from Italy on the re-opening of borders between the EU and the Russian Federation (with the participation of the petitioner)

Children’s’ rights: petition 1313/2020 from Spain on sexual abuse of minors (with the participation of the petitioner)

The next PETI meeting is scheduled for 24 February 2021.

 

 

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