(EP PETI) This week in the Committee on Petitions

Date of article: 23/01/2023

Daily News of: 24/01/2023

Country:  EUROPE

Author: Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament

Article language: en

Press release

19-01-2023

                

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 9.00 – 12.30 and 14.30 – 18.30

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15.00 – 18.30

European Parliament in Brussels, Spinelli building, room 3G3

 

Votes

Vote on Petition 0505/2022 by I.G. (Spanish), on behalf of the ‘Plataforma por unos barrios seguros’, on the decline in law and order experienced by residents in many neighbourhoods in Catalonia. Vote on keeping the petition open or closing it. Wed AM

 

Debates & presentations

 

Wednesday AM

Mission report following the fact-finding visit to Washington D.C. 18–22 July 2022. Consideration of the draft mission report.

Presentation of the Study “FATCA legislation and its Application at International and EU Level: An Update” by Professor Carlo Garbarino from Bocconi University in Italy. You can read the study here.

Wednesday PM

Workshop on the Transparency of pricing and reimbursement of medicinal products. Read more about the workshop and the programme here.

Presentation of the study “Environmental Crime affecting EU financial interest, the economic recovery and the EU's green deal objectives EU” presented by Prof. Dr Michael G. Faure (Maastricht

University / Erasmus School of Law in the Netherlands) and Dr. Kévine Kindji (Maastricht University). You can read the study here.

Thursday PM

Mission report following the fact-finding visit to Poland 19–21 September 2022. Consideration of the draft mission report.

 

Petitions

Wednesday

0508/2022 by P.M. (Polish), on behalf of Społeczny Komitet Gminy Piwniczna, on the construction of a highway in the Piwniczna region in Poland.

0510/2022 by L.R. (Polish), on behalf of New Amber Route Association (Nowy Bursztynowy Szlak), signed by 18 other persons, on the recognition of Bydgoszcz as a TEN-T core node in Poland.

0928/2022 by Juan Antonio Fuentes Garrido (Spanish), on claim for relocation and compensation for damages caused by works on the public network of the Madrid metropolitan railway.

0689/2022 by Andreas Feuerer (German) on the protected status of beavers in Bavaria (Germany).

0643/2022 by Rui Martins (Portuguese), on behalf of CpC - Cidadãos pela Cibersegurança, on regulating the use of cryptocurrencies in the EU.

0171/2018 by A.M.F (Italian) on the misuse of fixed-term employment contracts for forestry workers in Sicily.

1271/2021 by Sergio Grujic (Montenegrin) on the working conditions for truck drivers (Regulation (EU) 2020/1054).

0022/2022 by Inmaculada Carmen Sabater Llorens (Spanish), on behalf of the Asociación de aparadoras y trabajadoras del calzado (Association of Footwear Workers and Craftsmen), on working conditions of women footwear workers in Elch.

 

Thursday

 

0712/2022 by Erich Mähnert (Austrian) on extending the transition period for pigments PB15 and PG7 and making a realistic adjustment to the threshold values in Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH).

0605/2022 by Eleni Kostopoulos (Greek) on the killing of Zacharias Kostopoulos and impunity for police violence in Greece.

0459/2016 by A. J. (French) on behalf of the Enfants Otages organisation on the non-compliance with and distortion of Regulation (EC) No 4/2009 and the international conventions universally applied in family courts in Germany.

0607/2022 by C.P.-W. (German) on improving the situation in Europe’s refugee camps.

0989/2020 by Yamina Saheb (French) on the need to include measures in European Union environmental legislation to put an end to the protection of foreign investment in fossil fuels.

0655/2020 by Giorgia Jana Pintus (Italian), on behalf of Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (ARCI), Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione (ASGI), and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), on mismanagement and misuse of EU funds by the EUTFA’s programme of support to the integrated border management in Libya.

 

Watch the meeting live:

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming?view=day

 

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