CALENDAR / Main activities of the european institutions
31/10-6/11
Monday 31 October
Brussels. European Parliament. Activities of the committees (to 04/11). – AFET/DROI: Participation of a delegation at the 71st United Nations General Assembly in New York (to 02/11). – DEVE: Dispatch of a delegation to Lebanon to assess the living conditions of Syrian refugee children, in particular, access to education. – IMCO: Dispatch of a delegation to Geneva to examine the effect of international regulatory cooperation on standards, public procurement and consumer protection in the EU; meetings scheduled with representatives of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) (01-02/11). – EMPL: Dispatch of a delegation to Malta to meet employment and social affairs stakeholders (02-04/11); Dispatch of a delegation to Turin to visit the European Training Foundation (03-04/11). – FEMM: Dispatch of a delegation to Greece to look at the situation of women refugees, assistance programmes and projects to fight the trafficking in human beings (03-04/11). – INTA: Dispatch of a delegation to Argentina to meet the authorities to discuss the challenges ahead in EU-Mercosur trade negotiations (02-04/11). – LIBE: a delegation is to visit the EU Agency for Large-Scale IT Systems eu-LISA, Tallinn (Estonia), which manages the EURODAC database, the visa information system (VIS) and the Schengen information system (SIS II) (03-04/11).