The Commission outlines its forthcoming regulation to grant controlled PRUM/PIM access to selected third countries with strict safeguards, while MEPs probe which partners and data types are envisaged, data‑quality and bias risks, and the link with customs and financial‑tracking systems. The debate clarifies criteria for ‘trusted’ countries, reciprocity and fundamental‑rights guarantees, and broadens to strategic questions on an EU alternative to the US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme.
Political groups react to the Commission’s agenda, contest the EU‑US agreement and Mercosur ratification path, raise institutional and legal objections, and question consistency on Ukraine trade preferences, ISDS exposure and sustainability in the India FTA, with farmers’ competitiveness concerns and detailed questions from the chair on the US deal, Mercosur and mini‑deals.
The Chair, rapporteur and political groups examine Parliament’s consent to the EU‑US air transport agreement and the ancillary agreement with Norway and Iceland, discussing legal certainty, level playing field, labour and environmental standards, passenger protection and the Commission’s support for a positive recommendation.
Coordinators and MEPs question Kritz on pesticide authorisations, imports and MRLs, NGTs, EFSA’s independence and resources, and the Food and Feed Omnibus, followed by EFSA’s replies on capacity, AI tools, division of roles with member states and the Commission, and clarification that EFSA does not decide on market withdrawals or replacements.
Panel 1 examines dementia risk factors, public perception and life‑course prevention alongside cutting‑edge MRI‑guided brain gene therapy, then MEPs question experts on EU support for advanced therapies, integrating prevention in health systems, research models and early diagnosis, with replies stressing citizen education, translational trials and current limits and costs of gene therapies.
The rapporteur, shadows and other MEPs test the study’s conclusions on youth participation, inequalities and social justice, with experts responding on methodology, the limits of existing monitoring tools and uneven national commitment.
Expert testimony outlines UN and ICC privileges and immunities, the status of non‑party states, and EU/host state protection duties, while Judge Hoeller details the concrete effects of US sanctions on her family and ICC operations and calls for stronger EU measures, complemented by the Commission’s explanation of the EU blocking statute and its enforcement mechanisms.
Academic, judicial and Commission witnesses explain the legal regime of UN and ICC immunities and States Parties’ obligations, detail the concrete impact of US and Russian coercive measures on ICC officials, and outline the EU’s current diplomatic support and the design and possible use of the blocking statute in response to extraterritorial sanctions.
The chair opens the structured dialogue and the Commissioner sets out the state of play on EU‑US trade tensions, China‑related risks, diversification through FTAs, and planned actions on WTO reform, steel safeguards, FDI screening and GSP.
The AGRI Chair opens the session, introduces EFSA’s Executive Director and frames the exchange on EFSA’s scientific support for EU food safety, animal and plant health, while Kritz sets out EFSA’s mandate, ongoing legislative files and use of new tools for faster risk assessment.
The JURI–DROI joint hearing is formally opened, with chairs stressing inter‑committee cooperation, threats to multilateralism and international officials, the need to defend the rules‑based order, and questions around non‑use of the EU blocking statute, before introducing the panel of institutional and legal experts.
Electronic votes on amendments and final texts are followed by the formal opening of the joint JURI–DROI hearing, where chairs set the scope on UN/ICC immunities, US sanctions, and the role of the EU and Commission (DG FISMA) and introduce invited experts.
The Chair launches the public hearing on brain health and neurological diseases; Professor Hull details the burden, biology and demographic projections of neurodegenerative diseases and proposes an EU neurological health plan centred on prevention, reducing inequalities, early detection, data infrastructures and translational research within EU regulatory frameworks.
EPRS and external experts present the EU Youth Strategy implementation assessment, detailing youth concerns, participation gaps, member‑state implementation performance, and recommendations for a post‑2027 framework and governance model.
The committee holds its annual follow‑up on the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation, with the Commission detailing implementation status, clean transport corridors and the planned 2026 review, followed by coordinated and broader MEP questioning on prices, utilization, HDV targets, rural coverage, ports and airports and a two‑round Commission response on pricing, investment tools, geographic imbalances and future methodological work.
From the Chair’s opening and framing of the DEBRA hearing through two Q&A rounds, MEPs and experts examine debt‑equity bias, ACE‑type schemes, limits on interest deductibility, distributional effects, subsidiarity, and risks of tax competition and capital flight for EU tax coordination.
Committee opens with the draft opinion on the European Competitiveness Fund, where rapporteur and shadows debate ring‑fencing for health, subsidiarity, EU4Health/HERA safeguards and the balance between flexibility and protecting EU‑level health funding, followed by the Commission’s defence of the ECF design and procedural next steps, including the amendments deadline.
The Chair opens the TRAN committee meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, conducts a test vote and leads the vote on the committee opinion for the 2028–2034 Multiannual Financial Framework interim report, including adoption of a compromise amendment and the final opinion.
CULT opens its meeting and adopts its opinions on the MFF interim reports and 2027 budget guidelines, endorses the joint declaration "Europe for Culture" and confirms a coordinators’ decision under Rule 220, closing the entire voting block.
Members vote on the report on monitoring the application of EU law 2023–2025 (including compromises and an oral amendment, which are adopted), then on amendments to simplify the implementation of harmonised AI rules (adopted by roll‑call), and finally approve without dissent a Rule 107(1) Council recommendation on an international agreement.
The committee closes voting on an earlier dossier, then opens the file on the Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report with political framing by the rapporteur and proceeds to structured votes on amendments and compromises, ultimately rejecting the overall text in the final roll‑call vote.
The Chair challenges the political consistency of recent ‘safe country’ designations in light of human rights concerns, recalls Parliament’s stance, and then formally suspends the DROI meeting to allow participation in the Ukraine plenary and to announce the afternoon joint hearing and joint human rights statement.
Rapporteur Sokol briefs members on the state of trilogue negotiations on the Critical Medicines Act, including the agreed four‑column document, next technical‑level talks, and timing of the second political trilogue, before the Chair closes the sitting with practical information on the afternoon resumption and special plenary on Ukraine.
The Commissioner concludes by detailing use of the DMA, EMFA and Agora EU to support independent media, assessing recommender systems and future anti‑piracy options, addressing cyber‑violence through the new directive, stressing investment in European AI infrastructure and linguistic diversity, and confirming that the priority is implementation and targeted updates of AVMSD and copyright rules, before the Chair closes and announces the resumption schedule.
The Chair closes the rare diseases item and moves to the 2027 EU budget guidelines, explaining the procedure, running a test of the electronic voting system, and holding the final roll‑call vote that adopts the committee’s opinion to the Budgets Committee.
MEPs raise concerns over brain drain from Africa, call for faster and simpler legal labour migration and criteria for trusted companies, while the Commissioner reiterates talent-attraction and legal pathways as core objectives before both he and the Chair conclude and formally close the visa strategy debate.
Experts, Frontex, the Commissioner and DG HOME address impunity and vetting in Libya, operational dilemmas on distress calls, the balance between anti‑smuggling and rescue obligations, and the legal framing of safe third country rules and external cooperation under the Pact on Migration and Asylum.
The committee continues voting on remaining amendments to the WTO resolution, conducts several electronic checks, then adopts the final text and thereby agrees its negotiation mandate for the upcoming WTO conference in Yaoundé, before receiving monitoring group updates and closing the sitting.
In short interventions, MEPs raise AVMSD coverage of platforms, algorithm transparency, bans on dependency‑creating design, an EU‑wide age limit and non‑mandatory security apps, support for local media, data on gendered cyber‑violence, technological and cultural sovereignty in AI, protection of minorities and regional languages, possible anti‑fake‑news legislation, and the role of media and digital literacy in countering disinformation and addictive services.
Experts respond on newborn screening coordination, legal limits and options for EU‑level action, joint procurement and pricing information exchange, give examples of existing efficiencies such as ERNs and research funding, and argue that better collaboration and predictable evidence pathways can support innovation incentives.
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