In February 2012 the EU Affairs Committee (SUE) held 9 meetings: no. 22-30. During these meetings the Committee:

• scrutinised 97 EU documents;
• adopted one opinion (opinion no. 7),
• held a discussion on EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 with Financial Programming and Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski (meeting no. 23),
• together with Public Finance Committee heard information on the Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (EU fiscal pact) presented by Secretary of State in Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mikołaj Dowgielewicz and Under-Secretary of the State in Ministry of Finance Jacek Dominik (meeting no. 27). 

Published in February 2012 in databases "EU documents in the Polish Sejm" and IPEX:
- EU documents concerning which a procedure in the Sejm has begun in February
- information and documents on SUE meetings no. 22-26 and 28-30, provided by the EU Affairs Committee secretariat.

• 175 – Rządowy projekt ustawy o zmianie ustawy - Prawo ochrony środowiska oraz niektórych innych ustaw;
• 206 – Rządowy projekt ustawy o zmianie ustawy o cudzoziemcach oraz ustawy o promocji zatrudnienia i instytucjach rynku pracy.

In February 2012 the following statute implementing EU law has been published [paper no.]:

• Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o ostateczności rozrachunku w systemach płatności i systemach rozrachunku papierów wartościowych oraz zasadach nadzoru nad tymi systemami, ustawy o niektórych zabezpieczeniach finansowych oraz ustawy - Prawo upadłościowe i naprawcze [72].

• 27-28 February 2012, Brussels
  Interparliamentary committee meeting "European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination"
  Information on the meeting
• 28 February 2012, Brussels
  interparliamentary committee meeting "The Reform of Common Fisheries Policy: the opinion of National Parliaments"
  Information on the meeting

• Eastern Partnership
• Macro-regional strategies: evaluation of existing strategies, prospects for the Carpathian Strategy

   LATEST DEBATES - COMMENTS

Articles on the current political and economic issues in the EU from the specialist periodicals available on-line

• Bertoncini Y.: The politics of the "EMU governance", „European Policy Brief” 2012, No. 7.
• Dehousse R.: The "Fiscal Compact": legal uncertainty and political ambiguity, Norte Europe, „Policy Brief" 2012, No. 33.
• Gostyńska A., Tokarski P.: Spór o nowy pakt fiskalny – analiza i ocena, „Biuletyn PISM" 2012, nr 17 (882).
• Kałan D.: Postępowanie Komisji Europejskiej wobec Węgier – stan obecny i perspektywy, „Biuletyn PISM" 2012, nr 13 (878).
• Katsarova I.: EU Cohesion Policy 2014-2020: what will change, Library of the European Parliament, „Library Briefing", 07.02.2012.
• Král D.: Why the Czechs did not sign up to the fiscal treaty, „EPIN Commentaries" 2012, No. 9.
• Kreilinger V.: The making of a new treaty: Six rounds of political bargaining, Notre Europe, „Policy Brief" 2012, No. 32.
• Paul A.: To sign or not to sign? That's the EU-Ukraine question, European Policy Centre, „EPC Commentary", 13.02.2012.
• Świeboda P.: Europe from scratch, demosEUROPA, „Policy paper", 13.02.2012.
• Valiante D.: The Euro Prisoner's Dilemma, „ECMI Commentaries" 2012, No. 32.
• Whyte P.: Europe's growth strategy: All supply and no demand, Centre for European Reform, 27.02.2012.

EU CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES*

Selected articles and studies

• Bouza García L., Cuesta López V., Mincheva E., Szeligowska D.: The European Citizens' Initiative - A First Assessment, College of Europe, „Bruges Political Research Papers" 2012, No. 24.
• Delors J.: The Maastricht Treaty 20 years on, Norte Europe, „Tribune", 29.02.2012.

• Dhéret C., Zuleeg F., Chiorean-Sime S.: Analysis of the simplification measures mentioned in both the proposal for a EU Financial Regulation and the cohesion policy legislative package, European Policy Centre, 2012.
• Duke S.: The European External Action Service: Antidote against Incoherence?, „European Foreign Affairs Review" 2012 (17), s. 45–68.
• Marchegiani G.: The European Investment Bank after the Treaty of Lisbon, „European Law Review" 2012, Issue 1.
• Sobczyński D.: Ramy prawne tzw. mechanizmu greckiego oraz Europejskiego Mechanizmu Stabilności, „Europejski Przegląd Sądowy" 2012, nr 2.
• Van Cleynenbreugel P.: Judge-Made Standards of National Procedure in the Post-Lisbon Constitutional Framework, „European Law Review" 2012, Issue 1.
• Wennerås P.: Sanctions against Member States under Article 260 TFEU: Alive, but not kicking?, „Common Market Law Review" 2012 (49), s. 145–175.

* Articles from the specialist periodicals available on the Internet or in the Sejm Library.