Indicative programme - Economic and Financial Affairs Council of 17 May 2019

Met dank overgenomen van Raad van de Europese Unie (Raad) i, gepubliceerd op donderdag 16 mei 2019.

Place:

Europa building, Brussels

Chair:

Eugen Orlando Teodorovici, Vice prime minister, acting minister of regional development and public administration

All times are approximate and subject to change

From +/- 08.00

Arrivals (live streaming)

08.30

Economic and Financial Dialogue between the EU i and the Western Balkans and Turkey (roundtable - Presidency Trio: RO, FI, HR)

ttbc

Doorstep by Vice prime minister Teodorovici

10.00

Roundtable (ministerial breakfast)

11.40

Beginning of the Ecofin Council meeting

Adoption of the agenda

Adoption of non-legislative A Items

+/- 11.50

Adoption of A Items (public session)

+/- 11.55

Excise duties

  • a) 
    Structure of Excise Duties on Alcohol: Amendments to the Council Directive
  • b) 
    Directive on general arrangements for excise duty (recast)
  • c) 
    Regulation on administrative cooperation of the content of electronic registers

+/- 12.35

Any other business: Current financial services legislative proposals

+/- 12.40

International meetings

  • a) 
    Follow-up to the G20 i Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors and of the IMF and World Bank Spring meetings in April 2019 in Washington
  • b) 
    Terms of reference for the G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors in June 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan
  • c) 
    Digital taxation in the international context
  • d) 
    First meeting of the Coalition of finance ministers for climate action

European Semester 2019

Conclusions on Country Reports: 2019 In depth-reviews and implementation of the 2018 Country-Specific Recommendations

Any other business

Priorities for the next institutional cycle in the ECOFIN area

+/- 13.35

Ministerial working lunch

+/- 15.15

Press conference (Justus Lipsius press room, live streaming)

In the margins of the Council

Thursday, 16 March

Eurogroup meeting

Justus Lipsius building

From 13.30

Arrivals (live streaming)

+/- 14.15

Doorstep of Eurogroup President Mario Centeno i

15.00

Eurogroup (roundtable)

15.30

Arrivals (Inclusive EG)

16.00

Eurogroup in inclusive format (roundrable)

+/- 18.30

Press conference (live streaming)