SECTION for Agriculture, Rural Development and the Environment, Brussels - Main contents

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date	January 10, 2020 10:00 - 13:00
city	Brussels, Belgium
location	Delors building (JDE) i
organisation	European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) i

NAT Section agenda

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NOTICE OF MEETING

SECTION FOR AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Draft agenda:

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  Adoption of the draft agenda

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  Approval of the minutes of the 188th meeting, held on 27 November 2019

  EESC-2019-03671-00-00-PV-TRA

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  Statement by the section president

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  Presentation of the Annual Activity Report of the Circular Economy Platform Coordination Group for 2019 by Cillian Lohan

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  Orientation debate on NAT/780 EAFRD and EAGF transitional provisions - rapporteur : Arnold Puech d'Alissac

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    presentation by Michael Niejahr, Director, Directorate I - Legal, institutional and procedural matters, DG AGRI

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    general debate

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  Orientation debate on NAT/781 - Eastern Baltic cod - general rapporteur: Gerardo Larghi

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    presentation by Julia Eichhorst, Policy Officer, Unit for Fisheries Management: Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic Sea, DG MARE

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    general debate

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  Thematic debate on the new Biodiversity Strategy

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    Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

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    Stefan Leiner, Head of Unit - Biodiversity, DG ENV

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    General debate

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  Any other business

  The section's 190th meeting will take place on 6 March 2020 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with the following provisional agenda:

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    NAT/780 - EAFRD and EAGF transitional provisions

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    NAT/782 - Multiannual management plans for bluefin tuna

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    Thematic debate on the "Farm to Fork" strategy

  The section bureau will meet on the same day from 9 to 10 a.m. at the EESC, Brussels.

   

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  N.B.: Members and experts are asked to sign the attendance list in order to ensure that their meeting expenses are refunded.

  Members unable to attend the meeting are asked to give advance notice to their group secretariat so that interpreters do not attend unnecessarily.

  Recorded meeting - see Decision No 206/17A. Privacy statement.

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The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) is an EU advisory body comprising representatives of workers' and employers' organisations and other interest groups. It issues opinions on EU issues to the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament, thus acting as a bridge between the EU's decision-making institutions and EU citizens.

What does the EESC do?

It gives the interest groups a formal say on EU legislative proposals. Its 3 key tasks are to:

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  ensure that EU policy and law are geared to economic and social conditions, by seeking a consensus that serves the common good