News, Publications and Consultations from the Past Week
News CW 5 (27.01.2025-02.02.2025)
Closing the innovation gap: The Commission has presented the compass to regain competitiveness. An overview of the digital initiatives can be found here.
AI: New rules for the use of artificial intelligence came into force yesterday. Politico reports on the criticism of loopholes for police.
AI: The International AI Safety Report highlights the capabilities of advanced AI systems, identifies their risks and evaluates methods for mitigating those risks.
Selected Publications from the EP Think Tanks
- Problems presented by third-country e-commerce
- EU digital travel application
- Filling the gap: The EU’s fight against VAT fraud
- Hate speech and hate crime targeting LGBTI people
Ongoing Relevant European Commission Consultations
- EU competition rules on technology transfer agreements (revision) (until 25.04.2025)
- Future of the European automotive industry (until 13.02.2025)
Selections of the CW 6 (03.02.2025-09.02.2025)
Council:
The current preview of the Council’s work for the upcoming days until 16.02.2025 can be found here.
Summit and Ministerial Meetings:
- Informal meeting of competitiveness ministers (Internal market and industry), 02.2025-04.02.2025, Agenda
- Informal meeting of trade ministers, 02.2025-04.02.2025, Agenda
- Informal EU leaders’ retreat, 02.2025, Agenda
Preparatory Bodies:
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 02.2025, Agenda
- WP on Public Health, 02.2025, Agenda
- WP on Frontiers, 02.2025, Agenda
- WP on Latin America and the Caribbean, 02.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 02.2025, Agenda
- COREPER I, 02.2025, Agenda
- COREPER II, 02.2025, Agenda
- Law Enforcement WP (Police), 02.2025, Agenda
- WP on Civil Protection (Prociv) (Critical Entities Resilience (Cer)), 02.2025
- WP on Competitiveness and Growth – Industry, 02.2025, Agenda
- Horizontal WP on Cyber Issues, 02.2025
- WP on Telecommunications and Information Society, 02.2025, Agenda
- WP on Competitiveness and Growth – Internal Market, 02.2025, Agenda
An overview of the various Council dates can be found here.
Commission:
The agenda of the current Commission meeting was not available at our time of writing. You can potentially find it on the Commission’s website in the near future.
Parliament:
Plenary Sittings
There are no plenary sittings of the European Parliament taking place this week.
Here you can find a list of the upcoming dates of the European Parliament. The calendar of the plenary sittings for 2025 is available here (PDF).
Committees
LIBE Committee (Civil Liberties)
The agenda for the current meeting of the LIBE Committee on 06.02.2025 was not available at the time of going to press. This may be found at short notice on the LIBE Committee’s website.
JURI Committee (Legal Affairs)
No meeting of the JURI Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the JURI Committee can be found here.
No meeting of the ITRE Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the ITRE Committee (as of 29.01.2025) can be found here.
IMCO Committee (Internal Market)
No meeting of the IMCO Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the IMCO Committee (as of 13.01.2025) can be found here.
CULT Committee (Culture and Education)
No meeting of the CULT Committee is scheduled for this week.
The current timetables of the CULT Committee can be found here.
Outlook:
An overview of the following session weeks can be found here. The provisional agenda for the upcoming plenary sittings can be found here.
European Court of Justice
You can find the judicial calendar of the ECJ here.
