Indicative programme - Environment Council, 5 March 2019
Place:
Europa building, Brussels
Chair:
Graţiela Leocadia Gavrilescu, Romanian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment
Ioan Deneș, Minister of Waters and Forests
All times are approximate and subject to change
from 8.00
Arrivals
+/- 8.30
Doorstep by Minister Gavrilescu
+/- 8.35
Doorstep by Minister Deneș
+/- 9.30
Beginning of Environment Council meeting (Roundtable)
Adoption of the agenda
Approval of non-legislative A items
Approval of legislative A items (public session)
+/-09.45
Clean Planet for all: Strategic long-term vision for a climate neutral economy (public session)
+/- 11.45
Any other business:
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-MRV shipping (public session)
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-Better enforcement of the EU phase-down for hydrofluorocarbons
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-Tackling greenhouse gas emissions by aviation pricing
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-Strengthening coherence between EU free trade agreements and the Paris Agreement on climate change
+/- 12.20
Directive on drinking water (public session)
+/- 13.40
Working lunch: Discussion on the global pact for the environment
+/- 15.10
Greening the European Semester
+/- 16.40
European Union framework on endocrine disruptors
+/- 18.10
Any other business
+/- 18.25
Press conference (live streaming)