Frans EU-voorzitterschap presenteert prioriteiten aan parlementaire commissies Europees Parlement (en)
The French ministers will present the programme of the Presidency of the Council to the Committees of the European Parliament on 15, 16 and 17 July.
While the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has already presented the programme of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in a plenary session of the European Parliament on 10 July, the French ministers will meet with the specialised Parliamentary Committees on 15, 16 and 17 July 2008 to set out the respective French priorities that concern them. In keeping with tradition, at the start of each six-month Presidency, the ministers come to debate their programme and priorities with the MEPs sitting in specialised committees.
The European Parliament has twenty specialised committees, each of which draws up, amends and votes legislative proposals and own-initiative reports in their respective areas of competence. They examine legislative proposals from the Commission and the Council and, if necessary, write a report which will be presented in plenary session.
About twenty members of the French Government are taking part in this three-day presentation to sixteen of the twenty parliamentary committees. The four committees that are not affected are the Budget and the Budgetary Control Committees, which are never usually required to participate, the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, which already received the presentation at the end of June 2008, and the Committee on Legal Affairs, for which a presentation is scheduled September 2008.
See also the attached agenda of ministerial interventions on the 15, 16 and 17 July.
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