Media advisory – Competitiveness Council of 27 and 28 May 2021
Place:
Justus Lipsius building, Brussels
Chairs:
– Pedro Siza Vieira, Portuguese Minister of State for the Economy and Digital Transition
– Manuel Heitor, Portuguese Minister for Science and Technology and Higher Education
All times are approximate and subject to change
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Internal Market and Industry
From 08.30
Arrivals (live streaming)
+/- 08.45
Doorstep by Minister Vieira (live streaming)
+/- 09.30
Beginning of the Council meeting
Adoption of the agenda
+/- 09.40
Regulation on a single market for digital services (Digital Services Act) (public session)
Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act) (public session)
+/- 10.00
Leveraging European Union’s competitiveness and global influence through an ambitious Digital Services Package (public session)
+/- 12.00
Any other business:
– Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (public session)
– Distortive Foreign Subsidies Regulation proposal (public session)
– Essential building blocks for a competition law and state aid framework enabling European competitiveness
+/- 12.45
Conclusions on “Tourism in Europe for the next decade: Sustainable, resilient, digital, global and social”
+/- 12.55
Conclusions on data technologies to improve “Better Regulation”
+/- 13.05
Approval of A-items (non-legislative)
+/- 13.10
Approval of A-items (legislative) (public session)
+/- 13.15
Lunch debate on Economic recovery after the pandemic crisis
+/- 15.00
Updating the new industrial strategy for Europe – the critical importance of securing access to critical raw materials
+/- 17.00
Any other business:
– Trade Policy Review – An Open, Sustainable and Assertive Trade Policy
– EU industry competitiveness and effective harmonised standardisation
– Work programme of the incoming Presidency
+/- 18.00
Press conference (live streaming), Justus Lipsius press room
Friday, 28 May 2021
Research
From 08.45
Arrivals (live streaming)
+/- 09.00
Doorstep by Minister Heitor (live streaming)
10.00
Beginning of the Council meeting (roundtable)
+/- 10.05
Council Regulation on establishing the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (HPC)
+/- 10.35
Conclusions on “Deepening the European Research Area: Providing researchers with attractive and sustainable careers and working conditions and making brain circulation a reality”
+/- 10.50
Renewing the ERA: how to prepare the roll-out of an ambitious ERA fit for the next decade
+/- 12.20
Any other business:
– Decision on the participation of the Union in the European Partnership on Metrology jointly undertaken by several member states (public session)
– Council Regulation establishing the Joint Undertakings under Horizon Europe
– Mission Innovation: Membership
– Communication from the Commission on the Global Approach to Research and Innovation
– Work programme of the incoming Presidency
+/- 13.00
Lunch debate on the contribution of the RRF plans to Horizon Europe’s missions and partnerships
+/- 14.00
Press conference (live streming), Justus Lipsius press room
Space
+/- 15.05
Conclusions on “New Space for People”
+/- 15.20
Conclusions on “Space for People in European Coastal areas”
+/- 15.30
Towards a better positioning of the EU in Space Traffic Management
+/- 17.00
Any other business:
– Work programme of the incoming Presidency
+/- 17.15
Press conference (live streaming), Justus Lipsius press room
Arrangements for the press conferences
Please note that the press conferences after each session will take place remotely. In order to participate and ask questions, EU accredited journalists should register using this link.
Journalists who already registered for previous press events on Competitiveness Council do not need to do it again.
– Deadline for the registration: Thursday 27 May, 16.30
Further instructions will be sent to all registered participants after the deadline.