Indicative programme - Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 17 May 2019
Place:
Europa building, Brussels
Chair:
Eugen Orlando Teodorovici, Vice prime minister, acting minister of regional development and public administration
All times are approximate and subject to change
From +/- 08.00
Arrivals (live streaming)
08.30
Economic and Financial Dialogue between the EU i and the Western Balkans and Turkey (roundtable - Presidency Trio: RO, FI, HR)
ttbc
Doorstep by Vice prime minister Teodorovici
10.00
Roundtable (ministerial breakfast)
11.40
Beginning of the Ecofin Council meeting
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of non-legislative A Items
+/- 11.50
Adoption of A Items (public session)
+/- 11.55
Excise duties
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a)Structure of Excise Duties on Alcohol: Amendments to the Council Directive
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b)Directive on general arrangements for excise duty (recast)
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c)Regulation on administrative cooperation of the content of electronic registers
+/- 12.35
Any other business: Current financial services legislative proposals
+/- 12.40
International meetings
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a)Follow-up to the G20 i Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and of the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings in April 2019 in Washington
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b)Terms of reference for the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in June 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan
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c)Digital taxation in the international context
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d)First meeting of the Coalition of finance ministers for climate action
European Semester 2019
Conclusions on Country Reports: 2019 In depth-reviews and implementation of the 2018 Country-Specific Recommendations
Any other business
Priorities for the next institutional cycle in the ECOFIN area
+/- 13.35
Ministerial working lunch
+/- 15.15
Press conference (Justus Lipsius press room, live streaming)
In the margins of the Council
Thursday, 16 March
Eurogroup meeting
Justus Lipsius building
From 13.30
Arrivals (live streaming)
+/- 14.15
Doorstep of Eurogroup President Mario Centeno i
15.00
Eurogroup (roundtable)
15.30
Arrivals (Inclusive EG)
16.00
Eurogroup in inclusive format (roundrable)
+/- 18.30
Press conference (live streaming)