Indicative programme, Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 12 February 2016
Place: Justus Lipsius building, Brussels
Chair: Jeroen Dijsselbloem i, Minister for Finance of Netherlands
All times are approximate and subject to change
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Doorstep by Minister Dijsselbloem
+/- 09.00
Roundtable (Breakfast)
+/- 10.00
Beginning of Council meeting
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of legislative A items (public session)
Anti-Tax Avoidance Package (public session)
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-Tax avoidance practices that directly affect the functioning of the internal market
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-Mandatory exchange of information in the field of taxation
AOB: Financial services (public session)
Adoption of non-legislative legislative A items
Implementation of the Banking Union
Fight against the financing of terrorism
Preparation of the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on 25 27 February 2016 in Shanghai
Discharge to be given to the Commission in respect of the implementation of the budget for 2014
Budget guidelines for 2017
High Level Group on Own Resources
At the end of the meeting
Press conference (live streaming)
In the margins of the Council:
11 February
15.00
Eurogroup
12 February
14.00
Signature ceremony: Amending Protocol to the Agreement between the European Community and the Principality of Andorra providing for measures equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2003/48/EC on taxation of savings income in the form of interest payments
Economic and Financial Affairs Council, 12/02/2016
Video coverage in broadcast quality (MPEG4) and photo gallery