Indicative programme – Competitiveness Council, 28-29 May 2018

Press contacts

Víctor Flavián
Press officer
+32 2 281 67 15
+32 473 64 03 90

Place:       
Europa building, Brussels

Chairs:     
Emil Karanikolov, Minister for Economy of Bulgaria
Krasimir Valchev, Minister of Education and Science of Bulgaria  

All times are approximate and subject to change

MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018

+/- 08.00
Arrivals

+/- 08.50
Doorstep by Minister Karanikolov

Internal Market and Industry

+/- 09.30      
Roundtable
 Adoption of the agenda
Adoption of A items

+/- 09.40
Competitiveness check-up

+/- 10.30
Mutual recognition of goods – draft regulation (public session)

+/- 11.30
Businesses using online platforms – draft regulation (public session)

+/- 13.15
Artificial intelligence (informal lunch debate)

 +/- 14.45
Roundtable
Any other business: (public session)
– Recent initiatives in the digital single market
– Copyright package
– New deal for consumers package
– Company Law package
– Outcome of event in the field of tourism in 2018
– Supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products

Any other business: (not in public session)
– Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court
– SOLVIT online service on the internal market (outcome of conference)
– Work programme of the incoming presidency

+/- 18.45
Press conference (live streaming from Europa building press room)

TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018

+/- 08.30
Arrivals

+/- 09.25
Doorstep by Minister Karanikolov

Space

+/- 10.00
Roundtable       

+/- 10.00
Future of the European space policy (debate)

Any other business:
– Outcome of events dedicated to space
– Work programme of the incoming presidency

Research

+/- 12.45
High-performance computing (informal lunch debate)

+/- 14.30
Roundtable

+/- 14.30
European high-performance computing joint undertaking (draft regulation)

+/- 14.45
Euratom programme 2019-2020 (draft regulation)

+/- 15.00
European Open Science Cloud (conclusions)

+/- 15.15
Accelerating knowledge circulation in the EU (conclusions)

+/- 16.00
Research and innovation within the context of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (live streaming)

+/- 17.30
Any other business:
Work programme of the incoming presidency

+/- 17.45
Press conference (live streaming from Europa building press room)