The Commission reports on DSA enforcement against online marketplaces before the Chair closes Amazon scrutiny and opens a new item on suspending authorised representatives in batteries and packaging EPR, then later formally opens the hybrid IMCO sitting with agenda and minutes adoption, quorum confirmation, and a conference-style framing of internal market and consumer policy priorities.
The committee closes the occupational safety, climate and platform work hearing, then the Chair sets out the socio‑economic context and formally opens the exchange on the Commission’s new social package.
From the Chair’s introduction of the IED omnibus livestock item through the rapporteur, shadows and Commission intervention, this block covers the institutional framing, competing political lines on rolling back 2024 livestock thresholds and cattle coverage, and DG ENVI’s defence of the existing scope and simplification mandate. It concludes with the rapporteur’s call for an AGRI opinion balancing environmental ambition with workability for family farms and competitiveness concerns.
ETUC and BusinessEurope present contrasting positions on binding rules, administrative burden and implementation flexibility, followed by detailed inputs from Commission, EU‑OSHA, ILO and ETUI on climate‑related risks, vulnerable workers, AI‑driven management and the scope of the OSH framework for future legislation such as the Quality Jobs Act.
The Commission presents the unchanged EUDR legal framework and 2026 application date, detailing the four-part simplification package, IT system design, cost impacts and SME support tools while stressing that environmental ambition is maintained.
Coordinators and other MEPs question the experts on protection of police and security forces, the need for an EU directive on psychosocial risks, implementation gaps of Directive 89/391, simplification targets for SMEs, and how to integrate climate, AI, algorithmic management and undeclared work into the next EU OSH framework and the Quality Jobs Act.
Chair opens the Amazon scrutiny point, with the Commission outlining GPSR enforcement, planned European Product Act and CPC reform, followed by Amazon’s intervention and defence of its systems under the DSA and product safety framework.
MEPs question the experts on linking ViDA rollout to phasing out reverse charge, SME compliance burdens, internal‑market fragmentation, behavioural measures and differentiated strategies for SME evasion versus organised crime, with replies stressing harmonisation, proportionate enforcement and cross‑border cooperation.
The ILO and ETUI set out the global and European occupational safety and health priorities, stressing convergence with the ILO 2024‑2030 strategy, data and reporting gaps, new forms of work, gender and ageing issues, psychosocial and climate‑related risks, and the need to address cancers and critical raw materials at EU level.
The Chair introduces the ECA item ahead of the REGI ESF+ vote, the Court of Auditors presents its audit scope, key findings and recommendations on financial and net corrections in cohesion policy, and MEPs question the Commission and ECA on under‑corrections, data gaps and budget protection before the sitting is formally closed.
From the presentation of the AGRI-commissioned bioeconomy study through MEPs’ questions to DG AGRI’s response, this block covers business models for biomass use, CAP support instruments, regulatory barriers, and how to ensure viable, inclusive bioeconomy value chains for farmers.
The Commission presents the rationale, instruments and consultation process for the next EU strategic framework on OSH and its link with the forthcoming Quality Jobs Act, while EU‑OSHA details historical impacts of EU frameworks, available data and tools, and future priorities on climate, digitalisation, demographics, psychosocial risks, SMEs and competitiveness.
Three experts detail the limits of the reverse charge as a systemic anti‑fraud tool, present sectoral experiences like Article 199a and Spanish fuel fraud, and explain how harmonised legal design and digital reporting (ViDA, SII) can address large‑scale VAT evasion.
The chair opens the FISC meeting, adopts the agenda and confirms coordinators’ decisions before formally launching the public hearing on combating VAT fraud and setting out its scope, experts and speaking rules.
The Chair opens the REGI item on the ESF+ 2028–2034 opinion, rapporteur Mebarek presents her mandate and red lines, political groups set out their priorities on ESF+ scope, governance and links to NRPP, and the Commission and rapporteur debate ESF+ autonomy versus integration in the NRPP architecture.
The committee opens the CO2 standards revision file, with the rapporteur and shadows presenting contrasting approaches on tailpipe versus lifecycle emissions, technological neutrality, flexibilities and timelines, followed by a broad political debate on the 2035 combustion engine phase-out, competitiveness and social impacts, and concluding with the Commission’s warning on excessive flexibilities and the Chair’s calendar and voting arrangements.
The Chair opens the hearing on the post‑2027 EU strategic framework on occupational safety and health and sets the institutional context, followed by ETUC’s assessment of the current framework and priorities for a stronger binding strategy and BusinessEurope’s employers’ perspective linking OSH to competitiveness, data gaps and regulatory burden reduction.
Formal openings of ENVI meetings set out agendas, webstreaming and interpretation rules, adopt minutes and outline upcoming Green Deal-related work, including the Circular Economy Action Plan, plastic products and cross-border health threats, framing the committee’s scrutiny calendar.
The Chair opens the IMCO Single Market point, the Commission outlines the Single Market Strategy, barriers-prevention and enforcement tools, and MEPs in two rounds press for stronger enforcement, clarity on a future Single Market Barriers Prevention Act, links with industrial and Green Deal policies, and concrete action on procurement, EU preference and specific cross‑border obstacles.
The REGI chair opens a new meeting, adopts the agenda, recalls webstreaming and interpretation arrangements, and proceeds to the uncontested election of Younous Omarjee as first vice‑president by acclamation.
The ENVI committee opens its session, situates the Commissioner‑designate hearing within the European Green Deal and REACH revision, and formally launches the ‘Fur Free Europe’ European Citizens’ Initiative hearing as an instrument of EU participatory democracy.
The Chair opens the joint CONT/LIBE mission item, outlining the fact‑finding objectives on EUAA operations and EU funds oversight in Malta and formally mandating head of delegation Zdechovský to present the mission’s findings and conclusions.
Introduction of the bluetongue delegated act under the Animal Health Law, with the Commission detailing objectives and changes, and coordinators examining testing options, vaccination strategy, funding implications and internal market risks.
The second panel introduces the Romanian case and examines how NRPPs can strengthen or weaken multilevel governance, with expert input on legal gaps, risks to partnership compared to cohesion policy, and proposed safeguards including binding definitions, an updated code of conduct and rule‑of‑law conditionality links, followed by co‑rapporteurs and regions outlining conditions to prevent recentralisation and ensure enforceable partnership and subsidiarity, and MEP–Commission exchanges on depoliticisation, protection of beneficiaries, and monitoring provisions for implementation.
MEPs, stakeholders and the Commission address the ETS price signal, free allocation, auction revenues and carbon leakage, linking possible market design changes (including CCfDs, MSR/LRF, CBAM and benchmarks) to competitiveness, jobs and delivery of the 2040 climate target.
The Chair opens the agenda item and the Commission outlines the new intergenerational fairness strategy, its megatrend‑based pillars and planned tools, followed by MEPs’ first round of interventions on youth, employment, mental health, demographic decline, regulatory burden and labour precariousness.
In a subsequent sitting, the Chair opens the meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then hears a trilogue state‑of‑play on the Internal Market Emergency Instrument covering scope, crisis definition and governance, before the Spanish Presidency presents its programme on the internal market and consumer protection, including digital legislation (DMA, DSA, Data Act, AI Act), green transition, consumer safety, services and resilience, ahead of an exchange with MEPs.
The OLAF Supervisory Committee presents its annual report, resource constraints and proposals to revise the OLAF Regulation, then answers MEPs’ questions on investigation length, EPPO cooperation, AI and case selection, before the OLAF Controller explains her complaints mandate, statistics and procedural safeguards until the Chair closes the OLAF item.
Patriots (ID) challenge PPE and S&D on their real backing for an autonomous ESF outside NRPP constraints, while ECR, Renew, Greens and the Left set out divergent priorities on budget clarity, governance, flexibility and social justice objectives for the future ESF.
Industry and think‑tank experts outline industrial decarbonisation needs, ETS design and Market Stability Reserve options, use of ETS revenues, and tools such as CCfDs and infrastructure investment to sustain a strong carbon price while addressing hard‑to‑abate sectors and oversupply risks.
EC press point and signing ceremony by European Commissioner Ekaterina ZAHARIEVA and Australian Minister of Industry and Innovation Tim AYRES on Australia’s association to Horizon Europe
College read-out / Press conference (with international sign language) by European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna VIRKKUNEN and Commissioner Michael McGRATH on the Digital Fairness Act and a Consumer enforcement initiative
College read-out / Press conference by European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna VIRKKUNEN and Commissioner Michael McGRATH on the Digital Fairness Act and a Consumer enforcement initiative
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