Agenda briefing plenary session from the 25th to the 26th May 2016 in Brussels
- King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands to address Parliament
For the first time since his accession to the throne in April 2013, King Willem-Alexander will address Parliament in a formal sitting on Wednesday, following the opening of the Brussels plenary session at 15.00.
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The role that citizens are to play in the EU Energy Union and measures to tackle energy poverty will be debated in plenary session on Wednesday afternoon. A resolution will be voted on Thursday.
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The new “privacy shield” proposal for a EU-US arrangement to protect the privacy of EU citizens whose personal data is transferred to the USA for commercial purposes will be debated on Wednesday afternoon, with Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders and Commissioner Věra Jourová. A non-binding resolution on the arrangement, which is to replace the invalidated Safe Harbour agreement, will be put to the vote on Thursday.
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New plans to further boost e-commerce and services, including measures on unjustified geo-blocking, cross-border parcel delivery and enforcement of EU consumer rules across borders, are to be announced at noon on Wednesday 25 May and debated with Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip, in the afternoon.
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As milk prices have collapsed across the EU, and show no signs of recovering any time soon, MEPs will quiz Commissioner Phil Hogan on measures to alleviate pressure on dairy farmers and stabilize their incomes in a debate on Thursday. Factors blamed for the crisis include the Russian ban on imports from the EU, the end of milk quotas in 2015 and a drop in global demand.
