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:
- 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)

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