The Chair opens the meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, recalls recent EP emergency resolutions, condemns media crackdowns, and formally frames the public hearing on human rights and conflict-related gender-based violence in the Horn of Africa, outlining links to EP Gender Equality Week and the Sudan resolution.
The committee adopts its agenda and minutes, then examines several budgetary assessments: the EU–Seychelles Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement, the ENISA mandate revision under the Cybersecurity Act 2, and the ETS1 revision, focusing on their multi‑year financial envelopes, impacts on the EU budget and agencies, concerns about provisional application and legal cover, and differing political views on climate effectiveness, competitiveness and own resources.
The Chair situates the hearing within Gender Equality Week and future cohesion debates, then speakers from Poland, Galicia and Ireland present detailed socio‑economic profiles of rural women, illustrating systemic barriers, local EU‑funded initiatives, and the practical meaning of the right to stay in their territories.
The PETI committee opens the public hearing on vehicle safety and mobility, setting procedural rules and launching Panel 1, followed by the Commission’s overview of EU road safety performance, key risk factors and the current mix of legislative and funding instruments at EU level.
INTA opens with an institutional review of EU–Ukraine trade during wartime, covering the revised DCFTA, agri quotas and safeguards, solidarity lanes, steel TRQs and CBAM, followed by group‑by‑group MEP scrutiny of fairness, national grain bans, enlargement conditionality and use of the DCFTA as a pre‑enlargement integration tool, ending with Commission clarifications on standards, quotas and steel statistics.
Committee on Foreign Affairs extraordinary meeting devoted to Commissioner Marta Kos’s presentation of the 2026 EU enlargement package and subsequent debate.
The Chair and rapporteurs present monitoring group reports on China, the Thailand FTA, West Africa and SIFA, and critical raw materials transparency, before closing the public session and moving to the coordinators’ meeting.
The ECA recalls its limited mandate on budget levels and stresses synergies and the last-resort character of rescEU, while the Commission reaffirms the civil nature of the mechanism, acceptance of all recommendations, integration of a One Health, all-hazards approach, and links the debate to upcoming UCPM and HERA legislative negotiations before the chairs close the meeting.
Under Rule 47, the Chair opens a single roll‑call vote on JURI’s opinion regarding the legal basis for an own‑initiative report on the EU Rare Diseases action plan, noting the rapporteur does not take the floor. The opinion is adopted with the announced majority, the rapporteur is congratulated, and the Chair closes the voting part of the meeting.
The Chair conducts a series of electronic votes on compromise amendments 1 to 6 to the Benifei file, each opened and closed in turn with vote results and adoption status announced. A final roll‑call vote on the overall text is then held and adopted, and the rapporteur is congratulated.
Rapporteur Brando Benifei thanks shadow rapporteurs and outlines the JURI committee’s opinion on the Data Act and Data Governance Act, stressing simplification of the EU data framework without weakening existing rights. He details positions on trade secrets safeguards, cloud switching and competition, preservation of platform-to-business rules, neutrality and registration for data intermediation services, data access in public emergencies, and smart contract security, concluding with a call to support the compromise amendments and final text.
The Chair opens the meeting with electronic single votes on waivers of parliamentary immunity for András Tivadar Kulja and Afroditi Latinopoulou, both adopted, followed by recommendations to intervene or submit observations before the General Court (cases T‑614/26, T‑638/26) and the Court of Justice (case C‑929/26), all approved with detailed vote counts announced. The Chair then introduces the next item concerning verification of credentials under Rule 3 in his capacity as JURI Chair.
Panelists answer MEPs on differentiating democratic debate from anti‑democratic tactics, foreign funding, EU funding instruments and security framing of gendered and digital violence, after which the FEMM Chair underlines anti‑gender campaigns as a threat to EU democracy and announces follow‑up work on the gender‑based violence directive.
Experts present the commissioned assessment of the EU ports strategy on competitiveness, security, energy transition, digitalisation and hinterland links, and MEPs question them on ETS impacts, OPS pricing, public tasks, funding access and Member State roles before closing with next analytical steps and meeting adjournment.
ENVI and SANT co-rapporteurs and other MEPs/national MPs set political priorities on civil protection and health preparedness, contest proposed MFF cuts, highlight transparency and anti–double funding needs, question possible security/defence drift, discuss prevention versus crisis management, national capacities, One Health and subsidiarity concerns, and call for clearer frameworks for rapid cross-border interventions.
DG ECHO and DG HERA react to the ECA findings by explaining data and timing constraints, justifying NGEU deadlines, committing to stronger joint procurement, extended funding for stockpiles, simplified reimbursement and alignment with HERA’s medical countermeasures and One Health approach.
The European Court of Auditors details weaknesses in planning, funding linkage, sustainability and procurement of rescEU reserves, describes operational performance and reimbursement issues, and presents accepted recommendations to improve gap-based funding, joint procurement, stockpile sustainability and procedures.
The AFET standing rapporteur and MEPs from several political groups connect anti‑gender mobilisations to Gaza and global politics, question EU competences, funding priorities and demographic narratives, and confront each other and the panel on SRHR, LGBTQIA+ recognition, abortion, and links to racism and authoritarianism.
MEPs question the study team on voluntary versus forced out‑migration, data gaps, indicators and targeting, while authors stress the need to define young rural women as a distinct EU target group and empower local actors; the Commission then signals it will integrate these findings and better data needs into the forthcoming Right to Stay strategy before the authors and Chair close the meeting.
Chairs open the joint ENVI-SANT meeting, adopt the agenda, frame the debate around the ECA special report on rescEU and the MFF context, and give the floor to the reporting member to present the audit mandate, scope and institutional actors involved.
INTA opens the agenda point on the WTO Global Aid for Trade Review 2026, with WTO and Commission presentations on the rebranded Partnership for Trade and Development, EU Aid for Trade and Global Gateway, followed by MEP questions on LDC focus, EBA, private sector participation, effectiveness and WTO reform responses.
Researchers present a REGI‑commissioned study on young women in rural and remote areas, detailing demographic decline and gender imbalance, key obstacles in employment, services and representation, gaps in EU and cohesion policy targeting and funding patterns, limited evidence on ‘right to stay’ impacts, and recommendations for the next MFF, a Right to Stay strategy and improved statistics.
Civil society speakers from EU member states and Nordic countries present best‑practice equality laws, on‑the‑ground experiences of queer youth, shrinking civic space for SRHR providers, funding cuts, and evidence of coordinated harassment that raises hybrid security concerns for democratic institutions.
The Chair launches the Gender Equality Week debate on women in aviation, with unions, professional associations and DG MOVE detailing employment models, social protection, outreach and regulatory needs, while MEPs press for concrete tools, targets and the timing and scope of the Air Services Regulation revision.
MEPs question the expert on harmonisation, risks of de facto compulsory licences and innovation impacts, the expert replies on the need for EU‑level reform and CJEU guidance, and the Commission outlines its horizontal approach to IPRED, future reporting on the unitary patent and possible follow‑up, before the Chair closes the item.
Political groups and the Commission examine the horizontal omnibus proposal adapting fisheries, agriculture, environment and asylum rules for outermost regions, with support for a stronger Article 349 ‘test’ but divergent views on the French Guiana deforestation exemption and asylum derogations, and confirmation of forthcoming committee opinions and amendment timetables.
The FEMM Chair opens the Gender Equality Week hearing, sets the political and institutional context with President Metsola’s message, and the first expert maps the financing, structure and strategic targets of the anti‑gender movement and its links to democratic backsliding and authoritarian actors.
The Chair opens the INTA meeting, adopts the agenda and minutes, then the Commission presents the 6th report on implementation and enforcement of EU trade and economic security policy, followed by a detailed MEP–Commission Q&A on FTAs, Russia sanctions, TSD, economic security tools, SMEs and industrial policy coherence.
Professor Stierle presents the study’s mandate and legal context, assesses proportionality in patent enforcement under IPRED, analyses German patent reform and early Unified Patent Court case law, and proposes an IPRED amendment to make proportionality an effective, harmonised exception to automatic injunctions.
The Chair and rapporteur present the scope and assessment of the 2025 discharges for the Commission (DG MOVE), transport agencies and Joint Undertakings, followed by shadow rapporteurs and the Commission highlighting performance, security, governance, staffing and funding priorities.
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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