The economic affairs committee debates on Thursday rules to improve the transparency and reliability of benchmarks that could affect key financial market rates or the pricing of retail financial contracts such as mortgages. The proposal comes after incidents of manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) and Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor).
On Thursday, the civil liberties committee has a discussion with Emily O'Reilly, European ombudsman and Europol's data protection supervisor, on Europol's refusal to allow public access to information on the implementation of the EU-US Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP). The ombudsman has already criticised this refusal.
A delegation from the development committee participates on Thursday and Friday in the opening event of the European Year for Development 2015 in Riga.
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