Place:
Europa building, Brussels
Chair:
Krista Mikkonen, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Finland
All times are approximate and subject to change
from 8.00
Arrivals
+/- 8.00
Doorstep by Minister Mikkonen
+/- 9.30
Beginning of the Council meeting (Roundtable)
Adoption of the agenda
+/- 09.35
AOB: European Green Deal (public session)
+/- 09.45
EU environment and climate policy in the new legislative term (public session)
AOB: Reports on main recent international meetings (public session)
– Third meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP 3) (Geneva, 25-29 November 2019)
– 25th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) (Madrid, 2-13 December 2019)
– 21st meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Barcelona Convention (COP 21) (Naples, 2-5 December 2019)
+/- 11.40
Conclusions on the preparation of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (public session)
+/- 13.10
AOB: Priorities of the United Nations Environment Programme as well as upcoming major global events and issues (public session)
+/- 13.25
Approval of legislative A items (public session)
+/- 13.30
Approval of non-legislative A items
Informal lunch: presentation of the European Environment Agency’s state and outlook of the environment 2020 report by Hans Bruyninckx
+/- 15.00
AOB: Outcome of the second EU Clean Air Forum (Bratislava, 28-29 November 2019) (public session)
AOB: Fitness check on air quality (public session)
AOB: Report on the EU implementation of the Aarhus Convention (public session)
AOB: Fitness check on water and the REFIT check on urban waste water treatments (public session)
AOB: EU action to address risks related to poly- and perfluorinated alkylated substances (PFAS) (public session)
AOB: Management of large carnivores (public session)
AOB: EU action to protect and restore the world’s forests (public session)
AOB: Work programme of the incoming Presidency
+/- 16.30
Press conference (live streaming)
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