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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 07/06/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• the new South and East Network Officer for Greens/EFA reached out to Marketa, Marcel and Mikulas individually, asking them to meet and discuss campaign and policy priorities in the Czech Republic. The aim is to improve Greens/EFA campaigning and outreach in CZ.
o for the 3 MEPs to meet the Network Officer together, and decide on the common priorities beforehand.

• Agreed that MEPs will go for the meeting together.
• We shall find out more details about the meeting (e.g. what are the tasks of the South and East Network Officer).
• Action item: Míša will get back to admin assistants to find a suitable date for the meeting.

Policy/PR/Coordination

• hate speech crime

• Already discussed in Czech Pirate Party.
• Need for internal communication: we need to explain what it is about/ask to identify potential pitfalls.
• Create 1 pager describing the Commission’ initiative on hate speech crime (Patrick is in lead).
• Action item: Marcel’s team will provide Zuzka with information about hate speech crime, Patrick will provide Zuzka with human rights requirements.
• Next MEPs meeting: discussion on next steps.

• DSA/DMA

• Marcel follows up on email from Mikulas and ECON position on DSA.
• We need to strategically organise ourselves to press our priorities in the Group.
• DSA/DMA and WG Digital – we should make a use of it (e.g. including the ECON position on the DSA/DMA WG).

• Vote on Climate law trilogue outcome in June II (preparation for debate in Group) 5 mins
o trilogue outcome adopted in ENVI, Greens, Left, ID against, ECR divided
o not ambitious enough for the Greens

• Will be discussed on 8/6 at Group meeting.
• Vote is on next mini-plenary.
• Mikulas will ask the Group what is the reasoning behind voting against.

• Update on CZ PRES

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 14/06/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• Follow-Up: Incidence with IT Service Provider Swisshost in 2020 (internal)

Policy/PR/Coordination

• Hate speech to be added to list of crime
o Delegation prepared a survey to be circulated among PPEU – content and form of questioning was discussed during meeting.

• CZ PRES update

• UK coordination Group
o establishment of an EP Delegation for relations with the UK (Parliamentary Partnership Assembly). MEPs discussed interest in sending a delegate.

• Conference on the Future of Europe

o MEPs discussed Pirate priorities paper

Any other business

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 23/06/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• delegation staff (including Pirate group staff) holidays process, proposed rules:

1. Staff to seek delegation approval before applying for holidays.
2. Staff to take as much of their holidays during summer break as possible, otherwise during green weeks where possible, normally not in working weeks.
3. Tomasz and Niki to stand in for each other when absent outside the white weeks.
4. Staff to communicate to delegation before summer break when they plan to use their 2021 holidays in line with these rules.

• salary request by the delegation trainee
o contract will be prolonged until December
o postponed for next week

• Webex for delegation meetings with dial-in option
o is it the best option? Are there better alternatives with dial-in options?
o AI: Ask Panda to make an overview of options for other dial-in solutions or Jitsi with a GSM gateway

Policy/PR/Coordination

• next steps in negotiation with the group

• Marcel asks for a mandate in the negotiation with the group
• Mikulas PPEU update: no opposition to the negotiation
• Mikulas plus Sven from PPLU were nominated as the negotiators

• Coordination meeting with the Czech MPs
o agenda proposals
o discussion of the policy priorities for the CZ PRES
o aob

• hate speech crime
o draft survey document

• Press trip update

• Coordination meeting with the Czech MPs
o agenda proposals

• Vote on Climate law trilogue outcome in June II
o Results of vote in the Group: 7 yes, 31 no, 5 abstain

• Conference on the Future of Europe

o Pirate priorities to approve

Any other business

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 01/07/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• update on Delegation audit on GEA
o Does delegation want to conduct randomized audit or a full audit of each month?
→ according to gorup policy, we need (and want) a full audit. Example here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/pdf/meps ... _Type3.PDF

Policy/PR/Coordination

• Update CZ PRES
o In exactly one year from today, CZE Presidency will launch. PPCZ will send letter to Prime Minister to highlight issue of insufficient personell capacities in Brussels‘ delegations, asking government to act on time. Accompanied by press release.

• Sakharov prize candidates

o Discussion on whether delegation wants to submit own candidate – decision to communicate in writing.

• hate speech crime
o MEPs will draft a lime survey to be send to Pirate Parties in Czech Republic and Germany on extending the EU list on crimes to hate speech and hate crime (to be sent before summer break end of July)

Any other business

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 06/07/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• delegation staff holidays process
o MEPs & delegation staff discussed process of requesting annual leave & decided on common rules for delegation staff.

• salary request by the delegation trainee
o internal
• preparation of MEPs meetings
o MEPs discusses prioritisation of weekly delegation meetings and agreed to hold meetings with only three MEPs present if not avoidable.

Any other business

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 12/07/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• Debate on the process of publishing PRs

• Discussion on how to improve and speed up the process of publishing PRs on PPEU website.
• Agreed that Niki will also have the rights for approving PRs coming from the EP in term of formal side.
• The PR content always needs to be check and agreed by MEPs.
• Discussion on publishing process regarding shared topics (e.g. chat control, TERREG, DSA).
• Action item: Mikuláš will get in touch with Niki in order to explain him how to approve the PRs for publishing them on website of PPEU.
  Action item: Mikuláš will discuss with Niki how we can do our shared campaigns (e.g. topics prioritization, publishing process, volume of written text and its need for translation, etc.)

• Rules for mid-term evaluation of delegation trainees

• Delegation discussed internal rules for mid-term evaluation of delegation trainees.

• Decision on salary request by the delegation trainee

• MEPs agreed on pay raise for the Delegation trainee.

• Discussion over the extension of contracts for Delegation PR Experts

• Míša will check all necessary information with Greens regarding contract extensions.
• MEPs will discuss after the summer break.

Any other business

• next MEPs meeting will be held after the summer break on 30th August

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 30/08/2021

Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• Discussion over the extension of contracts for Delegation PR Experts (10 mins)

• Internal
  • Rules for holiday requests of delegation staff (5 mins)

• Delegation agreed on the rules for holiday requests of delegation staff.

• Survey on Plenary preparation

• Delegation agreed to set up a meeting for MEPs to discuss the outcome of the survey next week.
  
  Policy/PR/Coordination
  • Hydrogen topic

• It is important that the Delegation understand the topic and has a common approach so we do not go against our policies.

• Team of Mikulas will provide the Delegation with a short presentation next week.

Any other business

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 7/09/2021
Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• Discussion over the extension of contracts for Delegation PR Experts

• Internal

Policy/PR/Coordination

• Limesurvey

• MEPs agreed that the survey will be published after the elections in Czechia
• The survey will be shared with all PPEU members.
• Agreed that 3 surveys (as we have at this moment) will be merged into one:
  English version will be a default page
• other languages (Czech, German, etc)
• Need to adjust the explanatory text, which will be agreed on at next MEPs meeting on 14/09

• Sakharov prize

• MEPs agreed to follow Marketa suggestion for the vote on Sakharov prize

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[Michaela.Hnizdilova]

MEP Meeting 14/09/2021
Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Admin/Organisational

• Discussion over the extension of contracts for Delegation PR Experts

• Internal

• Modus operandi of our IT team, especially right to disconnect, emergency, vacation, and personal development (courses)

• IT team shall draft procedure rules for dealing with emergency situations and vacations (e.g., rotation system) in order to make sure that at least one person is at the service
• Discussion over the vacation for service providers and their personal developments.
• Action item: Panda together with the IT team will work on the procedure rules
• Action item: Misa will find out the possibilities about trainings/courses for the service providers.

Policy/PR/Coordination

• Limesurvey

• The explanatory statement has been approved by all MEPS.
• Action item: Misa will get in touch with Nadia to ask her for the Czech translation of the statement
• Action item: Mikulas will get in touch with team awesome for the translation: DDL Sunday 26/9

• EZO and coordination meeting 20.9 – agenda

• Action item: Zuzka will think about suggestions for the agenda.

• upcoming PR activities (with Tomas Polak)

• The upcoming PR activities has been presented and discussed

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[Samuel.Vanco]

MEP Meeting 11/10/2021
Draft agenda
Recurring items

• Delegation weekly plan
• Delegation work in progress

Czech parliamentary election results

Admin/HR/Organisational

• LimeSurvey on hate speech crime prepared by Panda 10 mins

• Continuation: modus operandi of our IT team, especially right to disconnect, emergency, vacation, and personal development (courses) 10 mins

• Request for an informal meeting with Czech MEPs and students from a bilingual high school (Czech/French) during the Plenary session in Strasbourg next year (preferably in February/March next year).
• Group retreat - reply with participation request by 12 October

• Pirate trainees alumni network

o keep in touch (eg. Christmas card)
o database with position, which office, main tasks (communication/policy/admin...), languages spoken, evaluation

• all postponed to next meeting

Policy/PR/Coordination

Any other business:

• Czech election debrief

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