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30 April 2013
EU DOCUMENTS IN THE SEJM

 In April 2013 the EU Affaires Committee (SUE) held 11 meetings: no. 137-147. During these meetings the Committee:

  • scrutinised 59 EU documents;
  • adopted two opinions (no. 34 and 35) and one desideratum (at the 144th meeting) concerning EU documents;
  • held the first reading of the governmental bill on the ratification of the Protocol on the concerns of the Irish people on the Treaty of Lisbon, done in Brussels, 13.06.2012 (paper no. 1047, meeting no. 139);
  • considered information for the Sejm and the Senate on the Republic of Poland's participation in the work of the European Union in the period July-December 2012, during the Cyprus Presidency (paper no. 1159, meeting no. 140);
  • heard information on the financial and economical effect of the EU-USA free trade zone, presented by Andrzej Dycha, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy (meeting no. 143);
  • heard the information on the progress of the developement of the Digital Single Market in EU, presented by Róża Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein, MEP, Małgorzata Olszewska, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Administration and Digitalization and Dariusz Bogdan, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy (meeting no. 146);
  • heard information on the draft conclusions on energy for the meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council on 07.06.2013, presented by Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy and Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, MEP (meeting no. 147).

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Published in April 2013 in databases European Legislative Documents in the Sejm (EDL-S) and IPEX:
- EU documents concerning which a procedure in the Sejm has begun in April,
- information and documents on SUE meetings no. 137, 138, 141, 144 i 145, provided by the EU Affairs Committee secretariat.

SUBSIDIARITY CHECK IN NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
 

Subsidiarity scrutiny in April

(Information from IPEX database as of 6.05.2013)

Draft legislative act Deadline for subsidiarity scrutiny Adoption / transmission of reasoned opinion Chamber / parliament (country)
COM(2013) 26 3.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 30 3.04.2013  26.03.2013 / - Seimas (Lithuania)
- / 28.03.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 27 3.04.2013   26.03.2013 / - Seimas (Lithuania)
2.04.2013 / - Senate (Romania)
- / 28.03.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 28 3.04.2013 13.03.2013 / - Federal Council (Austria)
26.03.2013 / - Seimas (Lithuania)
21.03.2013 / - Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
- / 28.03.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
- / 28.03.2013 Senate (The Netherlands)
- / 26.03.2013 Chamber of Representatives (The Netherlands)
COM(2013) 29 3.04.2013 26.03.2013 / - Seimas (Lithuania)
21.03.2013 / - Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)
- / 28.03.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
 - / 28.03.2013 Senate (The Netherlands)
 - / 26.03.2013 Chamber of Representatives (The Netherlands)
 COM(2013) 31  3.04.2013  26.03.2013 / -  Seimas (Lithuania)
2.04.2013 / 3.04.2013 Senate (Romania)
- / 28.03.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 40 4.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 45 8.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 42 9.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 44 9.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 48 10.04.2013 - / 10.04.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 71 16.04.2013 - / 11.04.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 78 16.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 102 24.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 106 25.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 96 26.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 107 26.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 95 29.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 97 29.04.2013 - -
COM(2013) 133 15.05.2013 3.05.2013 / - Bundesrat (Germany)
25.05.2013 / - Senate (Poland)
- / 3.05.2013 Riksdag (Sweden)
COM(2013) 145 13.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 146 14.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 130 16.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 153 16.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 168 17.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 159 21.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 155 28.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 162 30.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 147 31.05.2013 - -
COM(2013) 151 31.05.2013 - -
ALL REASONED OPINIONS OF NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS IN IPEX
UST DATABASE
 

In April 2013 three bills implementing EU law have been referred to the first reading – see papers no.:

  • Government bill amending the act on payment services and some other acts [1290],
  • Government bill amending the act - Code of Civil Procedure [1272],
  • Government bill amending some acts concerning the rights of passengers travelling by sea and inland waterway [1268].

In April 2013 from among bills uploaded into the UST database earlier, the following acts have been adopted [paper no.]:

  • Act of 5 April 2013 amending the act on the organisation of the fisheries market [1171],
  • Act of 5 April 2013 amending the act on road transport and act on working time of drivers [812].

In April 2013 the following acts implementing EU law have been published [paper no.]:

  • Act of 8 March 2013 amending the act on public offering and conditions governing the introduction of financial instruments to organised trading and on public companies, and some other acts [903],
  • Act of 8 March 2013 on plant protection products [740].
INTERPARLIAMENTARY COOPERATION
  • Conference of Speakers of the European Union Parliaments (21-23 April 2013, Nicosia)
    Information on the meeting
  • Meetings of sectoral committees of national parliaments and the European Parliament
  • Cooperation of parliaments of the Visegrád Group countries
  • Cooperation of parliaments of the Union for the Mediterranean countries
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