Indicative programme - Agriculture and Fisheries Council of 17 and 18 December 2018

Place:
Europa building, Brussels

Chair:
Elisabeth Köstinger, Austrian Federal Minister for Sustainability and Tourism

All times are approximate and subject to change

Monday, 17 December 2018

from 08.30
Arrivals

+/- 08.45
Doorstep by minister Köstinger

+/- 10.00
Beginning of the Council meeting (roundtable - fisheries)
Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of non-legislative A items
Adoption of legislative A items (public session)

+/- 10.10
2019 fishing opportunities for the main fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea

+/- 11.10 (roundtable - agriculture)
EU Bioeconomy Strategy (public session)
Any other business:
- Outcome of the "BIOEAST conference: Bioeconomy in the forefront of national policies"

+/- 12.35
Lunch break

+/- 14.05
Post 2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform package (public session)
Any other business:
- Outcome of the interparliamentary conference "The role of Parliaments in shaping the future of food and farming"

+/- 16.35
Any other business:
- Certain rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020 (public session)
- Outcome of the conference "The development of Plant Proteins in the European Union – Opportunities and Challenges"
- Massive forest damages in Europe
- State of play multiple files (public session)
- Situation in the pigmeat market

+/- 18.15
Press conference (live streaming from Justus Lipsius main press room)

Tuesday, 18 December 2018

from 08.30
Arrivals

+/- 10.00
Beginning of the Council meeting (roundtable - fisheries)

+/- 10.10
2019 fishing opportunities for the main fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea - Presentation of a first compromise

+/- 11.05
Any other business:
- Follow-up to the fipronil incident: state of play of implementation (roundtable - agriculture) (public session)

+/- Time to be confirmed
2019 fishing opportunities for the main fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea - Final compromise

+/- Time to be confirmed
Final press conference on fishing opportunities (live streaming from Justus Lipsius main press room)

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