Dear colleagues, friends, supporters of the ECI “right2water”,
We received a message from the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, in which he announces that soon we will receive the invitation for the hearing in the EP about our ECI “Water is a human right!”.
The hearing is scheduled for 17 February in the afternoon.
It will be held by the European Parliament Environment (ENVI) Committee that has been put in charge of organising this hearing. They have planned it for 17 February 2014: from 15.00hrs to 18.30hrs.
Please mark this date!
In the hearing at the European Parliament also representatives from the Internal Market (IMCO) and the Development Cooperation (DEVE) Committee will be present because of the contents of our ECI, as well as the Petitions (PETI) Committee that will be present as permanent Committee for ECI hearings. So we expect to meet with a large number of MEPs.
To promote our ECI we would like to be with a large number of supporters in the EP, as it is a public hearing, so we hope you can make it with many people to join us at the EP in Brussels!
We have officially submitted the (over 1.6 million) valid signatures on 20 December 2013, so the European Commission will give its answer to our demands by 20 March. The hearing is our opportunity to convince the European Parliament of the importance of our demands to implement the human right to water and sanitation in European law and show them the broad EU-wide support for it. Attached you will find our final documents with further elaboration of our demands that we have submitted together with the certificates of valid signatures.
We ask all supporters of our ECI to lobby MEPs in all countries to promote the demands of our ECI and gain their support. Many MEPs have already expressed their support for out ECI, but we would like to see a vast majority in the EP making a commitment to put the human right to water and sanitation into practice.
After the hearing and the answer from the European Commission the ‘normal’ procedure starts in which we would like to see as many of our proposals as possible to be turned in European legislative texts and actions. The final word will then be to the European Parliament.
We look forward to see you on 17 February in Brussels and we count on your continuous support to this campaign in its final stage.
Kind regards,
Jerry
EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF PUBLIC SERVICE UNIONS
40 Rue Joseph II, Box 5
1000 Brusselshttp://www.epsu.org
40 Rue Joseph II, Box 5
1000 Brusselshttp://www.epsu.org
