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Priorities and Key Dates of the Maltese Presidency January – June 2017 Contents Priorities and key dates of the Maltese Presidency January – June 2017 Contents Internal Policies General Affairs Internal Market, Competitiveness, Industry, Consumer Affairs Economic and Financial Affairs, Investment, Taxation Justice and Home Affairs, Civil Liberties Employment, Social Dialogue, Youth Environment and Climate Energy Agriculture and Fisheries Transport, Infrastructure, Tourism Research and Innovation, Space Telecommunications and Information Society Culture and Education, Sport Health External Policies Foreign Affairs Trade Policy Area / Useful Contacts Work Programme Key Dates General Affairs Ms Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca Strategic Agenda: January 23/24 - Informal Ministerial President Economic growth, sustainability and Meeting of Ministers and State Secretaries employment for EU Affairs Dr Joseph Muscat Ensuring competitiveness Prime Minister Citizen protection February 3 - Informal meeting of the 27 Heads of State or Government Unity in energy for the EU Mr Louis Grech Follow-up to the Bratislava Improvements in climate Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for declaration Security, justice and liberty European Affairs and Implementation of the Electoral Manifesto Work Programme’ 6 priorities: February 7 - General Affairs Council Sustainable European future Migration Dr Ian Borg Parliamentary Secretary for the EU Internal market February 21 - Economic and Financial Affairs Presidency and EU Funds Security Council Social inclusion Anti-Tax Avoidance Dr Konrad Mizzi Neighbourhood Policy Budget 2018 Minister within the Office of the Prime Maritime sector Minister March 7 - General Affairs Council Brexit Dr Deborah Schembri European Semester Better Law-making Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Budget: Simplification of Administrative Processes Cooperation and Verification MFF review Mechanism Omnibus proposal Simon Cachia Presidency Coordinator Follow-up to the High Level Group on March 8/9/10 - European Council [email protected] Own Resources report Tripartite Social Summit March 25 - 60th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome April 25 - General Affairs Council (Cohesion) Modification of the Common Provisions Regulation implementation of ESI Funds May 15/16 - 9th European Quality Conference on improving public administrations May 16 - General Affairs Council Rule of Law Dialogue May 23 - Economic and Financial Affairs Council Budget for 2018 June 8/9 - Informal meeting of the General Affairs Council June 20 - General Affairs Council European Semester June 22/23 - European Council June 26/27: High level meeting of Small States Policy Area / Useful Contacts Work Programme Key Dates Internal Market, Competitiveness, Industry, Consumer Affairs Dr Emmanuel Mallia Single Market Strategy: February 20 - Competitiveness Council Minister for Competitiveness and Digital, Services Package Consumer protection Maritime and Services Economy SOLVIT and the Single Market Services Package Information Tool Competitiveness "check-up" Dr Helena Dalli Start-up and Scale-up Initiative Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer The Better Regulation Agenda: Affairs and Civil Liberties Unitary Patent and Patent Court REFIT and SME tests of EU legislation March 21 - European Consumer Day Mark Seychell SMEs: Conference Internal Market and Horizontal Improving the business environment Competitiveness matters April 6 - Informal Meeting of for SMEs [email protected] Competitiveness Ministers Startup and Scale Up initiative Joseph Vella April 6/7 - Foreign Direct Investment Senior Policy Officer– Tourism, Consumer Company Law: Conference EFRAG Affairs and Competition: Unit Coordinator April 26/27 - European Consumer Centre Country By Country Reporting [email protected] Conference April 28 - Consumer and Competition Day May 29 - Competitiveness Council Services Package Competitiveness "check-up" Implementation of the Single Market Strategy Industrial Policy for the EU June 19 - Single Market Forum Economic and Financial Affairs, Investment, Taxation Prof. Edward Scicluna Ensuring funding for SMEs through January 27 - Economic and Financial Affairs Minister for Finance action on the Capital Markets Union Council Growth and jobs VAT: Reverse Charge Mechanism Dr Christian Cardona Strengthening the European Fund for Financial services proposals Minister for the Economy, Investment and Strategic Investment to facilitate European Semester 2017 Small Business private investment Basel IV (possibly) Concluding the European Deposit Nancy Caruana February 21 - Economic and Financial Affairs Insurance Scheme Permanent Secretary Council Progressing on the Common [email protected] Anti-Tax Avoidance Consolidated Corporate Tax Base Budget 2018 Clinton-Domenic Flores Tackling terrorist financing: coming to Technical Attaché- Trade, Economic and an agreement on amendments to the March 21 - Economic and Financial Affairs Financial Affairs fourth Anti-Money Laundering Council [email protected] Directive European Semester 2017 Working on the banking reform Retail financial services package Charles Abela Financial services proposals Senior Policy Officer– Trade, Economic and Country By Country Reporting Financial Affairs April 7/8 - Informal Meeting of Economic [email protected] and Financial Affairs Ministers May 23 - Economic and Financial Affairs Council Budget for 2018 Double Taxation Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Reduced VAT for electronically supplied publications European Semester 2017 Policy Area / Useful Contacts Work Programme Key Dates June 16 - Economic and Financial Affairs Council Banking Union Capital Markets Union Tax issues: CCCTB, FTT, Business taxation European Semester 2017 Justice and Home Affairs, Civil Liberties Mr Carmelo Abela Migration: January 26/27 - Informal Meeting of Justice Minister for Home Affairs and National Key areas: and Home Affairs Ministers Security Asylum February 23 (possibly) - Justice and Home External dimension of migration Dr Owen Bonnici Affairs Council Legal migration Minister for Justice, Culture and Local Migration Government Specific measures: Strengthen and streamline the February 23 - Ministerial conference on Dr Stefan Buontempo Common European Asylum System, LGBTIQ Road Map Parliamentary Secretary for Local the 2nd Migration Package and the March 6 - Foreign Affairs Council Government European Agenda on Migration Migration Revise the Dublin Regulation Terence Sacco EURODAC Proposal March 27/28 - Justice and Home Affairs Technical Attaché- Justice Transform the European Asylum Council [email protected] Support Office (EASO) into a fully- Reform of the Common European fledged EU Agency for Asylum Asylum System David Ciliberti Better implementation of the migrant ETIAS, SIS, EES, visa policy Technical Attaché- Home Affairs Relocation Scheme, the hotspots and [email protected] Legal Migration (Blue Card) the deployment of experts EPPO, Eurojust Follow-up of the Valletta Summit Brussels IIa Holistic and Global Approach to migration April 7 - Online Hate Speech Conference Partnership Frameworks with third countries May 15 - Foreign Affairs Council Complete the work on the European Counter-terrorism (external aspects) External Investment Plan to promote May 16 - General Affairs Council sustainable investment in Africa and Rule of Law Dialogue the Neighbourhood and to tackle the root causes of migration May 18 - Justice and Home Affairs Council Legal migration and visas - Blue Card Migration Directive Fight against organised crime and smuggling Human rights: Protection of migrants and in May 24/25 - European Migration Network particular migrant children Conference Civil Society Space/Human Rights Defenders June 8/9 - Justice and Home Affairs Council Implementing equal treatment and EPPO, ECRIS, Eurojust the prevention of violence between Money laundering, freezing and persons irrespective of religion or confiscation belief, gender, disability, age or Brussels IIa sexual orientation Reform of the Common European Protect the rights of minorities and Asylum System vulnerable groups such as LGBTIQ Migration EU’s accession to the Istanbul ETIAS, SIS, EES Convention Legal Migration (Blue Card) Schengen Fight against organised crime Counter-terrorism Policy Area / Useful Contacts Work Programme Key Dates Security: June 19 - Foreign Affairs Council External border management (Development) Smart Borders Migration Combatting terrorism Tackling serious and organised crime through the EU Policy Cycle Renewed Internal Security Strategy Roadmap to enhance information exchange and information management Tackling Terrorist Financing, fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive European Criminal Records Information System (ECRIS) Entry/Exit System ETIAS SIS Increasing Cyber Security Awareness Cyber Space and Cyber Hygiene Drugs: EU Drugs Strategy 2013-2020 and mid -term assessment Drugs Action Plan 2017-2020 New Psychoactive Substances legislation Proposal amending the EMCDDA Visa: Bring forward visa liberalisation, particularly with Ukraine Recast of the Visa Code Visa Facilitation Agreements, particularly with China Other actions: Fight against fraud European Public Prosecutor’s Office Revision of the Eurojust Decision Business Insolvency Regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the EU institutions and bodies “Brussels IIA” Regulation EU’s accession to the European Court of Human Rights Policy
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