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Latest news - Next FEMM and JOINT committee meetings - 12, 13 and 14 July 2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Friday, July 2, 2021
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Next FEMM and JOINT committee meetings - 12, 13 and 14 July 2021

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  • Next FEMM and JOINT committee meetings - 12, 13 and 14 July 2021
    Next FEMM and JOINT committee meetings - 12, 13 and 14 July 2021
    In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President of the European Parliament has established a number of measures to contain the spread of the virus and to safeguard Parliament's core activities.
  • The current precautionary measures do not affect work on legislative priorities.Core activities are maintained to ensure the smooth running of the institution's legislative, budgetary, and scrutiny functions.
  • The meetings allow for remote participation in a virtual environment.
  • Following these decisions, the next meetings will take place on:

KBRA Releases Research – CMBS Loan Performance Trends: June 2021

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
Banking, Professional services, Finance, Musical groups, Musicians, FEMM, Commercial mortgage-backed security, European Parliament

Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases a report on U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan performance trends observed in the June 2021 servicer reporting period.

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  • Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) releases a report on U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan performance trends observed in the June 2021 servicer reporting period.
  • The June delinquency rate fell to 5.2%, down from 5.4% in May.
  • The improvement mainly reflects lodging sector performance, which recorded a 90-bp decrease this month, following a decline of 100 bps in May.
  • Despite three larger mall loans (each in excess of $100 million) becoming current this month, there were seven newly delinquent ones.

Highlights - Equality between women and men in the European Union – draft report - 1.07.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Work, Human activities, Labor, Social programs, Employment compensation, Labour law, Working time, Gender pay gap, FEMM, Breastfeeding

On Thursday 1 July the FEMM Committee will consider the draft monitoring report on Equality between women and men in the European Union for the period 2018-2020.

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  • On Thursday 1 July the FEMM Committee will consider the draft monitoring report on Equality between women and men in the European Union for the period 2018-2020.
  • The rapporteur draws up a list of concrete measures to be taken by the Member States and new avenues to be explored in all areas, including women's equal access to work with rights and decent wages, the promotion of collective bargaining, the closing of the gender pay gap, the eradication of precarious work, the revalorisation of work, workers and wages in general and sanctions against companies that do not comply with labour law and perpetuate discriminatory practices.
  • The report also strongly calls for the protection of maternity and paternity through increased periods of leave without loss of salary, a right to reduce working hours for breastfeeding up to at least 2 years and other measures to reconcile professional life with family and personal life.

Highlights - Gender perspective and Recovery and Resilience Facility - 15.06.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Thursday, June 10, 2021
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Last September the FEMM Committee has adopted an opinion on the proposal for a regulation "Establishing a Recovery and Resilience Facility" where the inclusion of the gender perspective in the national plans and implementation of RRF is emphasized.

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  • Last September the FEMM Committee has adopted an opinion on the proposal for a regulation "Establishing a Recovery and Resilience Facility" where the inclusion of the gender perspective in the national plans and implementation of RRF is emphasized.
  • Members will debate these aspects together with Cline Gauer, DG in charge of the Recovery and Resilience Task Force.
  • Responsible for RRF together with ECFIN, Ms Gauer leads this Task Force within the commission's secretariat-general that oversees the rollout of the recovery and resilience plans, which member states are in the midst of submitting.

Highlights - MeToo - Oral question to the Commission - 15.06.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Articles, Labour law, Workplace bullying, Feminist movements and ideologies, Harassment, Sex crimes, Sexual harassment, Me Too movement, FEMM, European Union

Members are also asking if trainings on preventing sexual harassment are mandatory in the European Commission and in other EU institutions and agencies.

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  • Members are also asking if trainings on preventing sexual harassment are mandatory in the European Commission and in other EU institutions and agencies.
  • The oral question comes as a result of the FEMM workshop on "Three years after #Metoo - what needs to be done?
  • Call for reforms to avoid sexual harassment in EU institutions" held on 25 May.
  • The vote on the draft resolution will take place at the next meeting of the FEMM Committee on 1 July.

Highlights - Various aspects of women in poverty following the COVID impact - Hearing - 15.06.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Thursday, June 10, 2021
Contemporary history, Articles, Health, FEMM, Poverty, COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic crisis have impacted women differently than men in the EU.

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic crisis have impacted women differently than men in the EU.
  • The effects of the COVID-19 crisis are putting in jeopardy the progress achieved in the past decades in terms on the reduction of gender inequalities.
  • The objective of this hearing is to analyse the main elements and causes of women's poverty in Europe and in third countries.
  • The outcome of the hearing will feed the incoming FEMM own-initiative report on 'Women's poverty in Europe'.

TIBCO's New Hyperconverged Analytics Approach Delivers Rapid, Actionable Insights for Customers

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Data management, Technology, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Software development, Articles, Computing, Business intelligence, Information technology management, TIBCO Software, Analytics, DevOps, FEMM

This TIBCO Hyperconverged Analytics experience increases business value by compressing the time from business events to analytics, insights, and action.

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  • This TIBCO Hyperconverged Analytics experience increases business value by compressing the time from business events to analytics, insights, and action.
  • By combining the power of analytics with TIBCOs data management and data virtualization offerings, customers can now scale analytics and reporting on any data.
  • The automation of tasks and the convergence of analytics, data science, and DevOps is central to our innovative approach, said Michael OConnell, chief analytics officer, TIBCO.
  • TIBCO Hyperconverged Analytics is a game-changing strategy for analytics, enabling our customers to unlock the potential of real-time data for making faster, smarter decisions.

Highlights - Adding Gender-Based Violence as new ‘eurocrime’ - 25.05.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
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This legislative initiative requests the Commission to propose a Council decision to consider gender-based violence as an area of crime that meets the criteria established under Article 83(1) TFEU.

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  • This legislative initiative requests the Commission to propose a Council decision to consider gender-based violence as an area of crime that meets the criteria established under Article 83(1) TFEU.
  • During this meeting, LIBE and FEMM committees also held an exchange of views with several experts in the field of gender-based violence and EU Law.
  • The event fed into the abovementioned legislative initiative.

Highlights - Protection of persons with disabilities - opinion in letter form - 25.05.2021 - Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality

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Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Euro, Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Directive (EU) 2021/555, FEMM

On Tuesday 25 May 2021 the FEMM Committee adopted an opinion in letter form to the report drafted by the Committee on Petitions (PETI) on The protection of persons with disabilities through petitions: lessons learnt.

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  • On Tuesday 25 May 2021 the FEMM Committee adopted an opinion in letter form to the report drafted by the Committee on Petitions (PETI) on The protection of persons with disabilities through petitions: lessons learnt.
  • The rapporteur calls for the intersection of gender and disability to be mainstreamed in all EU policies, programmes, initiatives and in Member States' national action plans and to use funding instruments in favour of accessibility and non-discrimination.
  • She calls for urgent measures to prevent and combat all forms of gender-based violence, via the use of the Istanbul Convention, the extension of the areas of crime in accordance with Article 83-1 of the TFEU and a holistic EU framework directive to prevent and combat all forms of gender-based violence.
  • The opinion also makes reference, inter alia, to disability-specific healthcare, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, inclusive education measures, full access to the labour market.

Highlights - Addressing inequalities in developing countries - Committee on Development

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Musical groups, Musicians, Contemporary history, FEMM, European Parliament Committee on Development, COVID-19 pandemic

On Wednesday 26 May 2021 (16.45-19.15), the Committees on Development (DEVE), in association with the Committee on Women's Rights (FEMM) will hold a public hearing on addressing inequalities in developing countries, with specific reference to the COVID pandemic.

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On Wednesday 26 May 2021 (16.45-19.15), the Committees on Development (DEVE), in association with the Committee on Women's Rights (FEMM) will hold a public hearing on addressing inequalities in developing countries, with specific reference to the COVID pandemic.