EUROPEAN UNION
| 14/05 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (to 17/05). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council (GAC) (and 15/05). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of EU Defence Ministers and Foreign Ministers. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Industry/Energy Council (and 15/05). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EU/US signing ceremony of energy agreement. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Initialling of a stabilisation and association agreement with Croatia. |
| BRUSSELS: - ACP-EU joint commercial ministerial committee. | |
| - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Committees: industry, external trade, research and energy; environment, public health and consumer policy; legal and internal market; citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs; development and cooperation; women's rights and equal opportunities. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: hearing on the "Euro - are all scenarios foreseeable?" |
| 15/05 - | STRASBOURG: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EU-Moldova Cooperation Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EU-Cyprus Association Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Joint meeting of Defence and Foreign Ministers of the EU and of the six European countries that belong to NATO but not to the EU (Turkey, Norway, Poland, Hungary, Czech Rep., Iceland) - GAC + 6. - GAC + 15 (Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Poland, Czech Rep., Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Malta). |
| STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: Committees: foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy; budgetary control; fisheries; culture, youth, education, media and sport; interim Echelon committee; temporary human genetics committee: hearing of experts on the use of genetic information. | |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: Economic and monetary union section, economic and social cohesion. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-34/99 Primback (taxation). |
| 16/05 - | STRASBOURG: - EP: Mr Patten's speech before the delegation for relations with Israel. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: single market section, production and consumption. |
| LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-68/99 Toditec/Commission (institutional law). | |
| 17/05 - | MOSCOW: - EU/Russia Summit. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Social Committee: external relations section. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-449/98, C-450/98 P IECC/Commission (competition), C-119/99 Hewlett Packard (free movement of goods), Joint affairs C-322/99, C-323/99 Fischer (taxation), C-159/99 Commission/Italy (environment and consumers), C-340/99 TNT Traco (competition). |
| 20/05 - | FALUN/TÄLLBERG: - Informal Culture ministerial meeting (to 22/05). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 14/05 - | BRUSSELS: - UNCTAD Conference on least developed countries (at EP) (to 20). |
| - | INNSBRUCK: - Speech by Mr Fischler at "Austria in the EU" Symposium. |
| 15/05 - | BRUSSELS: - NATO: Military Committee at Chiefs of Staff session. |
| 16/05 - | PARIS: - OECD: ministerial meeting (and 17/05). |
| - | PARIS: - IEA ministerial conference (International Energy Agency). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - NATO: Military Committee of Euro-Atlantic Partnership (chiefs of staff). |
| 17/05 - | LUXEMBOURG: - EIPA seminar on "legal aspects of electronic commerce" (and 18/05). |
| 18/05 - | LONDON: - Annual conference at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on international and comparative competition law. |
| 20/05 - | Week of trade union mobilisation for the retired (in all EU countries) (to 27/05). |
| 21/05 - | STOCKHOLM: - Conference for the signing of the convention on POPs (persistent organic pollutants) (to 23/05). |