Indicative programme - Environment Council, 5 March 2019

Met dank overgenomen van Raad van de Europese Unie (Raad) i, gepubliceerd op donderdag 28 februari 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:

  • MRV shipping (public session)
  • Better enforcement of the EU phase-down for hydrofluorocarbons
  • Tackling greenhouse gas emissions by aviation pricing
  • 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)