EP Plenary session - Substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims (Green Claims Directive)

EP Plenary session - Debate - Geographical Indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products

EP Plenary session - Instant payments in euro

EP Plenary session - Joint debate - Markets in financial instruments regulations

EP Plenary session - Role of tax policy in times of crisis

EP Plenary session - Sustainable use of plant protection products

IMCO Public Hearing on Late Payments

EP Plenary session - Financial services contracts concluded at a distance

EP Plenary session - Commission statement - SME Relief Package

ECON - Voting session

EP Plenary session - Need to adopt the “Unshell” Directive on rules to prevent the misuse of shell entities for tax purposes

EP Plenary session - Topical debate - Tax the rich

EP Plenary session - Lessons learnt from the Pandora Papers and other revelation

EP Plenary session - Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture

EP Plenary session - Competition policy - annual report 2022

AGRI Trilogue on Gls

MEPs debate new rules to ensure transferred funds arrive immediately into the bank accounts of retail customers and businesses across the EU. MEPs debate

Instant payments in euro: MEPs debate

MEPs debate on the report by the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee to reduce the use of chemical plant protection products and to make them safer by at least 50%; they would also reduce the use of so-called “more hazardous products” by 65%, compared to the 2013-2017 average.

Sustainable use of plant protection products: MEPs debate

MEPs call on the EU to boost its food security and strategic autonomy. In the light of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the draft text calls for the use of the EU’s strategic food stocks, a protein and feed strategy to allow farmers to become less reliant on third countries, new breeding techniques to decrease the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and investments in digital technologies in agriculture. It also demands a dedicated EU programme for water management, the reduction of food waste and reciprocity in trade of agricultural products with third countries. MEPs also ask for safeguards to ensure that agricultural activity in the EU is maintained during the implementation of the Green Deal. MEPs debate

Ensuring food security and the long-term resilience of EU agriculture: MEPs debate

MEPs debate new rules on EU geographical indications to protect the quality of wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products. They call for better online protection of registered agricultural products, avoid abuse of registered products used as ingredients and propose more rights and financial support for recognised producer groups. Extracts from the debate (31/05), extracts from the vote, and statement by Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT), Rapporteur.

Geographical indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, and quality schemes for agricultural products: extracts from the debate (31/05), extracts from the vote, and statement by Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT), Rapporteur

MEPs debate new rules on EU geographical indications to protect the quality of wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products. They call for better online protection of registered agricultural products, avoid abuse of registered products used as ingredients and propose more rights and financial support for recognised producer groups.

Geographical indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, and quality schemes for agricultural products: MEPs debate

MEPs debate the role of farmers in the green transition and how to ensure food security in Europe, especially in the light of the Russian aggression in Ukraine. First part of the debate.

The role of farmers as enablers of the green transition and a resilient agricultural sector: MEPs debate (part 1)

MEPs debate on a European citizens’ initiative on phasing out synthetic pesticides and creating bee-friendly agriculture. MEPs debate (part 1)

European Citizens’ Initiative "Save bees and farmers! Towards a bee-friendly agriculture for a healthy environment": MEPs debate (part 1)

Inflation and efforts to curb it are the focus of a plenary debate with European Central Bank President. MEPs concentrate on high inflation rates and divergences in inflation levels across the EU, seeking reassurances from Ms Lagarde about the ECB’s work to tackle it. Second part of the debate.

European Central Bank - annual report 2022: MEPs debate (part 2)

MEPs debate with the Council and the Commission on what is being done to keep energy bills down and to help EU citizens deal with the social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine. Second part of the debate.

Keep the bills down - social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine: MEPs debate (part 2)

With energy prices skyrocketing and households being put under increasing financial pressure, MEPs discuss the merits and the most effective way of imposing a windfall tax on energy companies’ profits. In a resolution adopted in May, MEPs called for such a tax in principle.

Taxing windfall profits of energy companies: MEPs debate

&lt;p>The Commission adopted the Taxonomy Delegated Act on 9 March 2022. It proposes the inclusion, under certain conditions, of specific nuclear and gas energy activities in the list of environmentally sustainable economic activities covered by the so-called EU Taxonomy. second part of the debate.&lt;/p>

Amending the Taxonomy Climate Delegated Act and the Taxonomy Disclosures Delegated Act: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

MEPs debate on Wednesday and vote on Thursday on the Commission proposal implementing the international agreement on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15%. The draft text calls for a review clause that would allow for the annual revenue threshold above which a multinational corporation would be subject to the minimum tax rate to be revised. MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union.

Minimum level of taxation for multinational groups: MEPs debate and statement by Mairead MCGUINNESS, European Commissioner for Financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union

Silicon Valley Bank (SB) was shut down on Friday 10th March 2023. This was the largest failure of a US bank since the financial crisis in 2008. MEPs request a debate on the implications of the failure and the impcations for financial stability in Europe. MEPs debate. The transcription is the result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

The failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and the implications for financial stability in Europe: MEPs debate

MEPs discuss with the Commission efforts and rules that should be beefed up to better fight money-laundering, another practice which the Pandora papers also shows is thriving.

Increased efforts to fight money laundering: MEPs debate

Parliament present plans on how Europe can produce healthier food while ensuring food security, a fair income for farmers and reducing agriculture’s environmental footprint. Opening statements by Anja HAZEKAMP (The Left, NL) and Herbert DORFMANN (EPP, IT), co-rapporteurs, Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D,IT), Stella KYRIAKIDES, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Benoît BITEAU (Greens/EFA, FR); Claude GRUFFAT (Greens/EFA, FR) and Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA (Renew, ES). MEPs are expected to welcome the Farm to Fork strategy, presented by the Commission in May 2020, while underlining the importance of producing healthy, animal friendly, high quality and affordable diets to European consumers. They are expected to demand that farmers must earn a fair share of the profit from sustainably produced food. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system: opening statements

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg (4-7 October 2021), MEPs debate on the implications of the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance (after the publication of the so-called journalistic investigation 'Panama Papers'). Second part of the debate.

Pandora Papers - implications on the efforts to combat money laundering, tax evasion and avoidance: MEPs debate (Part 2/2)

During the plenary session (7-10 June 2021) in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs debate on the European Citizens' Initiative "End the cage age": MEPs debate 2/2

European Citizens' Initiative "End the cage age": MEPs debate 2/2

During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels (17-20 May 2021), MEPs debate on the severe impact of the recent spring frost on fruit and wine growers. Open questions to the Commission.

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