15.10.2018

Preview of the Week’s Sessions in the Bundestag (CW 42-2018)

Bundestag Plenary:

58th Session of the Bundestag on 18th October 2018 (German-language link)

Agenda Item 16: Future Startup Culture

Deliberation of the motion of the FDP parliamentary group  Future Startup Culture – More Investment in Startups and Competitiveness for the Financial Center Frankfurt

Paper 19/…

 

Agenda Item 17: Amendment to the Telecommunications Act (TKG)

Second and third deliberation on the federal government’s draft fourth law for the amendment to the Telecommunications Act

Paper 19/4722

 

Agenda Item 19: Implementation of the Marrakesh Directive

Second and third deliberation on the federal government’s draft law for the Implementation of the Marrakesh Directive on Improved Access to Copyright-Protected Works for the Benefit of Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print-Disabled

Paper 19/3071, 19/3826, 19/4325 Nr. 1.12

 

From the Committees:

 

17th Session of the Digital Agenda Committee on 17th October 2018

Agenda Item 2:

Report of the federal government on the implementation of the provisions of the Network Enforcement Act (§ 2 NetzDG) and removal of content under the Network Enforcement Act

Invited as guests: Facebook Inc., Google GmbH, Twitter Inc.

 

Agenda Item 3:

Discussion with representatives of Facebook Inc. about the misuse of data of Facebook customers and other Internet users, and about the hacker attack on Facebook data that became public at the end of September 2018.

 

25th Session of the Committee for the Interior and Home Affairs on 17th October 2018

Agenda Item 13:

Motion of the FDP parliamentary group  Briefing of the federal government about the extent and background of cyber attacks carried out with Russian support against German targets or targets in the European Union.

 

23rd Session of the Committee for Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection on 17th October 2018

Agenda Item 1:

Draft law of the federal government  Draft law for the Implementation of the Marrakesh Directive on Improved Access to Copyright-Protected Works for the Benefit of Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print-Disabled

BT Paper 19/3071, 19/3826 The following has been distributed: 19(6)22 Draft of a regulation

 

Agenda Item 13:

Motion of the CDU/CSU and SPD parliamentary groups  Report of the federal government on the status of the development of a proposal for the auditing and certification of the complaint management of social networks

 

24th Session of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure on 17th October 2018

Agenda Item 7:

Report of the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure on the Broadband Subsidization Directive

Self-assessment 19(15)SB-036

 

20th Session of the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy on 17th October 2018

Agenda Item 4:

Draft law of the federal government  Draft fourth law for the amendment to the Telecommunications Act

BT Paper 19/4722

 

3rd Session of the Study Commission on “Artificial Intelligence” on 15th October 2018

Agenda Item 1

Initial presentations (explanation of terms) Prof. Hannah Bast, Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt, Prof. Sami Haddadin, Prof. Antonio Krüger, Prof. Katharina Zweig

 

Agenda Item 2

Group work for the first specification of the work contract

 

Agenda Item 3

Reports on the outcomes of the group work

 

Agenda Item 4

Presentation on the working report “Online citizen participation in the parliamentary work” of TAB (Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag)

 

  • The German Bundestag will convene again from 5th to 9th November 2018.
  • You can expect to receive the next preview on 5th November 2018.

 

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