Science & Policy

What’s on the EU's agenda?

June 2019

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

Strategy and Work Programme Coordination Interinstitutional, International Relations & Outreach

SCIENCE & POLICY: WHAT'S ON THE EU'S AGENDA?

2 June 2019

The DG JRC's monthly briefing to the scientific community, N° 81

Table of Contents

1. Activities of the European Institutions 3

1.1 European Commission 3

1.2 Council 4

1.3 European Parliament 5

1.4 Committee of the Regions (CoR) 5

1.5 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) 7

2. Conferences & Meetings 8

2.1 DG JRC Conferences and Events 8

2.2 Further European Conferences and Meetings 10

2.3 International Conferences and events 14

3. DG JRC News 16

Correspondence: Strategy, Work Programme and Resources Interinstitutional, International Relations & Outreach– DG JRC European Commission, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11 Office: CDMA 05/155 JRC-STAKEHOLDERS@ec.europa.eu Prepared by Elisebha Fabienne Platzer and Giada Gabbas Cover: 3D illustration of molecule model (©Fotolia, artemegorov)

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1. Activities of the European Institutions

1.1 European Commission

Date Event Subject

5 June College Meeting

Among others: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Central Bank, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank: 2019 European Semester: Country-specific recommendations; Commission recommendations for Council recommendations on Member States’ National Reform and Stability or Convergence Programmes; Statement of estimates of the Commission for 2020 (Preparation of the 2020 Draft Budget); Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the EU Solidarity Fund to provide for the payment of advances in the general budget of the Union for 2020; Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the mobilisation of the Flexibility Instrument to finance immediate budgetary measures to address the ongoing challenges of migration, refugee inflows and security threats;

12 June College Meeting

Among others: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Central Bank, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank: State of play of preparations of contingency measures for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union; Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council and the European Central Bank: Deepening Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union: Taking stock four years after the Five Presidents’ Report; Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council and the European Central Bank: Fourth Progress Report on the reduction of non-performing loans and further risk reduction in the Banking Union; Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council and the Council: Roadmap to an agreement on the Union’s long-term budget for 2021-2027: The European Commission’s contribution to the European Council meeting on 20-21 June 2019;

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18 June College Meeting

Among others: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: United in delivering the Energy Union and Climate Action- Setting the foundations for a successful clean energy transition; Commission recommendations on integrated national energy and climate plans covering the period 2021-2030;

All meetings of the College of Commissioners

1.2 Council

Date Event Location

3-4 June Informal meeting of Agriculture Ministers Bucharest, Romania

6 June Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Transport) Luxembourg

6-7 June Justice and Home Affairs Council Luxembourg

6-7 June Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council Luxembourg

13-14 June Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council Luxembourg

14 June Economic and Financial Affairs Council Luxembourg

17 June Foreign Affairs Council Luxembourg

17 June EU-Jordan Association Council Luxembourg

18 June Agriculture and Fisheries Council Luxembourg

18 June General Affairs Council Luxembourg

20-21 June European Council Brussels

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25 June General Affairs Council (Cohesion) Luxembourg

25 June Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (Energy) Luxembourg

26 June Environment Council Luxembourg

All meetings of the Council

1.3 European Parliament

Plenary Sessions

Date Event Subjects Location

5 June Committee on Budgets Please consult the website Brussels

All European Parliament Committee Meetings

1.4 Committee of the Regions (CoR)

Date Event Location

3-14 June The Danube Delta and the Black Sea Region Brussels

4 June Communication Stakeholders Consultation Meeting "Better Communication for Cohesion Policy"

Brussels

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5 June A Vision for The Atlantic Arc Brussels

6 June European Network of Cities and Regions for the Social Economy (REVES) Excellence- Award 2019

Brussels

11 June EU INTEGRA DAY- Integration of Third Country Nationals through Urban Partnerships

Brussels

12-14 June 24th Environment, Climate Change and Energy (ENVE) Commission meeting and SET Plan Conference in Bucharest (RO)

Romania

13-14 June Higher Education Values in Practice Brussels

17 June 24th Commission for Natural Resources (NAT) meeting Brussels

17 June Seminar on "Sustainable Territorial Development and Landscape" Brussels

19 June 5th Enlargement Day 2019 Brussels

26 June 135th CoR plenary session Brussels

27 June Joint 25th Anniversary of the CoR and the Congress Brussels

30 June 23rd enlarged meeting of the Bureau of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and The Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM)

Palestine

09 July 24th Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Commission Meeting Brussels

10 July 24th Commission for Territorial Cohesion Policy and EU Budget (COTER) Commission Meeting

Brussels

Further Events of the Committee of the Regions

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1.5 European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)

Date Event Location

4 June Beyond GDP: Measuring people's well-being and societies' progress Brussels

07 June 13th meeting of the EU- Montenegro Joint Consultative Committee Montenegro

11 June The European Semester and Cohesion policy- Towards a new European strategy post-2020

Brussels

11 June The sustainable economy we need Brussels

11 June Discriminatory practices in employment and recruitment and the Roma: identifying best practices

Brussels

13 June Civil Society Days 2019 Brussels

17 June Summary of the costs and benefits of investments in occupational safety and health (OSH)

Brussels

27 June Leaving no one behind when implementing the 2030 Agenda on sustainable development

Brussels

27 June Hearing in Poland on: The new European rules on retail- between the free market and sustainability

Poland

28 June Communicating Disability Rights Brussels

Further events of the European Economic and Social Committee

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1.6 International Relations

Date Event Venue/Location

5 June Enhancing EU-Japan research cooperation on the frontiers of knowledge Tokyo, Japan

21 June AU-EU agricultural ministerial conference- agriculture, our future: promoting sustainable regional agricultural value chains

Africa Union (AU) Commission

and the European

Commission

Rome, Italy

2. Conferences & Meetings

2.1 DG JRC Conferences and Events

Date Event Organiser Location

3-15 June European Decommissioning Academy (EDA)

JRC, Slovak University of Technology in

Bratislava (STUBA)

Bratislava, Slovakia

4 June What is the future of the EU's demographics? Launch event: Report "Demographic Scenarios for the EU - Migration, Population and Education"

JRC Brussels

4-5 June An Application Program Interface (API) for government best practices workshop

JRC Helsinki, Finland

5-6 June Science meets Parliaments- Science meets Regions conference: Eco-innovation & Energy policy- Czechia

JRC Brno, Czechia

11-14 June ELINDER Generic Course "Initiation au démantèlement des installations nucléaires"

French National Institute of

Nuclear Sciences & Technics

Marcoule, France

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(INSTN)

18 June

Supporting Smart Specialisation Strategies and Technology Transfer in South-East Europe

Romanian Presidency of the Council of the EU, JRC, Romanian

Ministry of Research and Innovation,

Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research,

Development and Innovation

Funding

Bucharest, Romania

21 June Launch event: Report “The future of road transport- Implications of automated, connected, low-carbon and shared mobility

JRC Brussels

23-25 June International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) in the organisation of the 2019 IATRC Symposium

International Agricultural Trade

Research Consortium

(IATRC), DG AGRI, JRC

Sevilla, Spain

26-28 June Counterfactual Impact Evaluation (CIE) Summer Week JRC Ispra, Italy

28-29 June Sustainable and qualitative olive oil production- Italy Province of

Ragusa Ragusa, Italy

25-27 September

Global Summit on Regulatory Sciences (GSRS)

JRC, Global Coalition for Regulatory

Science Research (GCRSR)

Lago Maggiore, Italy

Further upcoming DG JRC Events

Further upcoming events in the EU Newsroom Calendar

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2.2 Further European Conferences and Meetings

3 June Meeting of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) focal points in the Global Centres for Disease Control

ECDC Stockholm,

Sweden

3-4 June Artificial intelligence: an opportunity for the EU cyber-crisis management

EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)

Athens, Greece

3-4 June Exchange of experiences with migration and child rights experts

EC, EU Agency for Fundamental Fights

(FRA) Brussels

4 June Public stakeholder workshop on the postal sector

EC Internal Market, Industry,

Entrepreneurship and SMEs

Brussels

4 June Horizon Europe workshop

European Global Navigation Satellite

System (EGNSS) Agency (GSA)

Prague, Czechia

4-6 June Safety promotion network 2019 EU Aviation Safety

Agency (EASA) Cologne, Germany

5 June European agency for safety and health at work (EU-OSHA) 25th anniversary

European Agency for Safety and Health at

Work (EU-OSHA) Bilbao, Spain

5 June Enhancing EU-Japan research cooperation on the frontiers of knowledge

European Research Council (ERC), Japan

Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan Science

and Technology Agency (JST)

Tokyo, Japan

5-6 June 32nd Madrid Forum EC, DG ENERGY Madrid, Spain

5-6 June 5th European nuclear safety conference

Under the auspices of the European Nuclear

Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG), EC

Brussels

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7 June Citizens' dialogue in Helsinki with Vice-President Jyrki Katainen

EC Helsinki, Finnland

11 June eHealth high-level conference Romanian Presidency of the Council of the

EU

Bucharest, Romania

12-14 June Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) Conference

Romanian Presidency of the European Union, Romanian Ministry of

Energy, European Committee of the Regions, European

Commission, Romanian

Municipalities Association

Bucharest, Romania

12-13 June 10th annual forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region (EUSBR)

EC, Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

Interreg Baltic Sea Region, EUSBSR,

Pomorskie Region, Baltic Sea States Subregional Co-

operation (BSSSC)

Gdansk, Poland

12-14 June 6th European Conference on standardization, testing and certification in the field of occupational safety and health

European Occupational Safety and Health

Network (EUROSHNET)

Dresden, Germany

12-14 June 2019 EASA-FAA international aviation safety conference

EASA, US Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA)

Cologne, Germany

12-14 June EuroNanoForum– European conference on nanomaterials

Romanian Presidency of the Council of the

EU, DG RTD, Romanian Ministry of Research

and Innovation, National Institute for

Research and Development in

Microtechnologies (IMT) Bucharest

Bucharest, Romania

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17 June Sustainability Reporting Forum: Trust, Transparency and the Role of Auditors

European Court of Auditors

Brussels

17-18 June Meeting of the European electricity regulatory forum (Florence Forum)

DG ENER Florence, Italy

17-21 June EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2019 DG ENER Brussels

18 June 5th EASA third country operators workshop for Member States

EASA Cologne, Germany

18 June Brussels Economic Forum 2019 EC Brussels

18 June 30 years of Jean Monnet Activities: Why study the European Union today?

EC Brussels

18-19 June European Development Days (EDD) EC, DG DEVCO Brussels

18-19 June Europol intellectual property crime conference

Intellectual Property Crime Coordinated

Coalition (IPC3), Europol

Malaga, Spain

19 June Tartu Call for a healthy lifestyle EC Brussels

19-21 June Conference on new challenges regarding copyright in the digital single market

Romanian Presidency of the Council of the

EU

Bucharest, Romania

20-21 June Music Moves Europe- opportunities and challenges of the music sector in the digital age

Romanian Presidency of the Council of the

EU

Bucharest, Romania

20-21 June 8th evaluation conference of the EU cohesion policy: Investing in our shared future

EC Bucharest, Romania

24 June Stakeholder dialogue: progress and outcomes of the technical expert group’s work on sustainable finance

DG FISMA Brussels, Belgium

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25 June Competing continents: The pursuit of excellence in electronic communications

Body of European regulators for

electronic communications

(BEREC), International Institute of

Communications (IIC)

Riga, Latvia

25 June Developing coherent approaches to upskilling pathways for low-skilled adults

Romanian Presidency of the Council of the

EU, Cedefop

Brussels, Belgium

25 June

EU Agency for network and information security (ENISA) workshop on interdependencies between operators of essential services and digital service providers

ENISA Brussels, Belgium

25 June From wrongs to rights- Ending severe labour exploitation

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

(FRA) Vienna, Austria

26 June GNSS raw measurements taskforce workshop European Global

Satelite Navigation Systems Agency (GSA)

Prague, Czechia

27 June European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Awareness Day

EIT Cyprus

27 June Bringing the long-term unemployed back into work

EC, European Social Fund (ESF)

Transnational Platform

Brussels

27 June Webinar: Experiences in bridging the gap between investors and project developers

EC, UN Environment Finance Initiative

Online

27 June Joint 25th anniversary of the European Committee of the Regions and the Congress of the Council of Europe

CoR, Congress Council of Europe

Brussels, Belgium

27-28 June 8th Annual forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube region (EUSDR)

EU Strategy for the Danube region

(EUSDR), EC

Bucharest Romania

28-29 June G20 Summit Japanese G20

Presidency Osaka, Japan

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24-26 September

European Research and Innovation Days DG RTD Brussels

3-4 October EU Arctic Forum EC, EEAS, Government

of Sweden Umeå, Sweden

2.3 International Conferences and events

Date Event Organiser Location

12-13 June International forum on intellectual property enforcement 2019-Resolving governance gaps to country intellectual property rights infringements

OECD Paris, France

24-28 June International Metropolis Conference

Department of Immigration, Refugees and

Citizenship Canada

Ottawa, Canada

1-5 July Innovations in Disaster Risk Reduction 2019 Workshop

Central European University (CEU), United Nations Development

Programme (UNDP)

Budapest, Hungary

6 July ASEAN Emerging Researchers Conference ASEAN ERC Seattle, USA

8-9 July High-level political forum on sustainable development: Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality

UN High-Level Political Forum

Platform New York, USA

22-26 July Geospatial Technologies and Remote Sensing for Monitoring SDGs 2019 Workshop

CEU, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

(UNOOSA)

Budapest, Hungary

31 July-2 August

4th Worlwide Meeting of Young Academies (GYA) 2019

GYA Da Nang, Vietnam

25-30 August World Water Week 2019 Stockholm

International Water Institute (SIWI)

Stockholm, Sweden

2-3 September Open Living Lab Days Global Living Lab Thessaloniki,

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Community Greece

16-20 September

International Atomic Energy Agency 63rd General Conference

IAEA Vienna, Austria

23 September UN Climate Action Summit UN New York, USA

24-25 September

High-level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development: SDG Summit 2019

Under the auspices of the UNGA, UN

New York, USA

24-27 September

International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE) 2019 ISDE Florence, Italy

21 October 2019 Euro-Case Annual Conference on the Future of Work

Norwegian Academy of Science (NTVA)

Oslo, Norway

23-25 October Lisbon Addictions 2019

Portuguese General Directorate for Intervention on

Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies (SICAD), Journal

Addiction/Society for the Study of

Addiction, European Monitoring Centre for

Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), International Society of Addiction Journal

Editors (ISAJE)

Lisbon, Portugal

20-23 November

World Science Forum 2019 World Science Forum Budapest, Hungary

2-13 December 2019 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 25)

UNFCCC COP 25 Santiago, Chile

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3. DG JRC News

May DG JRC Newsletter May 2019

2018 JRC Annual Report

Open Open access to JRC Research Infrastructures- Call

Actinide User Laboratory-ActUsLab

Open The EU is recruiting researchers- Call for expressions of interest

Open JRC Alumni Network Membership: Already Member of the JRC

Alumni Network? Not yet-Take the opportunity to join!

13 May Sustainable development & water management- Hungary

Similar to other lakeside areas in Europe, Lake Balaton is an important development hub, but faces significant economic and environmental challenges. Through this conference, the Balaton region aimed to put the sustainable development of European lake regions on the political agenda of the EU.

13-14 May State-of-the-art of analytical methods for reliable detection of micro- and nanoplastics workshop

Microplastics (MPs) and possibly also nanoplastics (NPs) are widely diffused throughout the environment and concerns are growing that they may present a potential risk to the environment and human health via contamination of water, food, and air. There is a growing need for scientists and legislators to better understand this issue and in particular to have access to reliable information on the sources, presence, nature, and distribution of micro- and nanoplastic in different media and their potential effects. Unfortunately, the development of this knowledge base is being hindered, among others, by the absence of harmonised sampling/analytical procedures as well as a lack of quality assurance tools such as reference materials.

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In order to close knowledge gaps, the EC JRC plans a series of workshops which will bring together regulators and experts in the field of microplastics with the aim of defining priority areas and the most effective ways to tackle them. This first workshop brought together experts in the analysis and detection of micro- and nanoplastics. Available methodologies were critically reviewed. Emphasis was placed on defining practical actions to improve data quality and inter-comparability by promoting harmonisation and future method development.

13-17 May The European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Symposium

This symposium focuses on the contribution of Earth Observation to science and society and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional landscape of Earth observation, which also creates new opportunities, interaction between the public and private sectors. The symposium was organised around four themes: Earth Sciences, Earth Observation Missions, Space 4.0 and Earth Observation, Advantages for a resilient society. The Summer School was specifically tailored for post-graduate students and early-career scientists working in the biosciences and focused on non-animal methods and technologies and the opportunities and challenges associated with their application in various fields such as regulatory toxicology and biomedical research.

17 May Science for Europe, Science for Me

A series of short and interesting presentations were presented on issues that concern us all, from climate change to the fight against terrorism. JRC scientists told visual stories about the science that protects EU citizens.

21-24 May JRC Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), which runs the EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL ECVAM), organised a JRC Summer School on "Non-Animal Approaches in Science: Challenges and Future Directions. The objective of the JRC Summer School was to share knowledge and experiences on the latest non-animal approaches used in research and testing, including in vitro methods and computer modeling. In addition, the intention was to explore the role of the Three R (Replacement, Reduction and Refinement of Animal Experimentation) in science today through discussion and debate.

22 May Artificial intelligence - Belgium

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in all sectors of society. This event provided an overview of the challenges and opportunities for policy makers in the field, specifically applied in the Belgian context.

27-30 May 27th EU Biomass Conference and Exhibition

The conference program included more than 800 first-rate contributions received with abstracts from more than 3,300 authors and co-authors from 68 countries. Submitted abstracts were noted and selected by

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scientific and industrial committees of institutional and industrial research organisations under the chairmanship of the Joint Research Center of the European Commission.

28-29 May 172nd European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Seminar

The 172nd Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) was aimed to reinforce at strengthening the environmental and climate ambition of the EU's agricultural sector, which is at the center of the European Commission's latest proposal on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The theme of the seminar were the policy and research implications of these increased environmental and climate ambitions. The Agriculture and Rural Development Department of the Commission (DG AGRI) and the Joint Research Center (JRC) supported the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in organising this seminar.

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