EUROPEAN UNION
| 8/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Employment and Social Policy Council. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs Council (and 9/10). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy (to 10); employment and social affairs (and 9); fisheries (and 9); budgetary control (to 10); environment, public health and consumer policy (and 9); temporary committee on human genetics (and 9). |
| 9/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Informal meeting of ministers responsible for policy of large cities. |
| - | COPENHAGEN: - Official visit by EP President Nicole Fontaine to Denmark. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: Committees: budgets (and 10), civil liberties and citizens rights, justice and home affairs (and 10); culture, youth, education, media and sports (and 10); industry, external trade, research and energy (to 11); regional policy, transport, tourism (to 11); economic and monetary (and 10). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of justice: rulings: C-377/98 NL/Parliament and Council (legislation alignment), joint cases C-80/99, C-81/99, C-82/99 Flemmer (agric.), C-400/99 Italy/Commission (State aid), C-409/98 Mirror Group (tax), C-108/99 Cantor Fitzgerald International (tax), C-379/99 Pensionkasse fur die Angestellten (social policy) |
| 10/10 - | BRUSSELS: - European Commission meeting. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: agriculture committee and environment, public health and consumer policy committee (and 11); Committees: legal and internal market (and 11); development and co-operation (and 11); petitions (and 11); constitutional affairs (and 11). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: rulings: T-171/99 Corus UK/Commission (Ecsc), T-111/00 British American Tobacco International (Investments) / Commission (institutional law). |
| 11/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Informal meeting of defence ministers (and 12/10). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Messrs. Nielson and Patten at EU/Africa ministerial meeting. |
| - | WASHNGTON: - Messrs. Liikanen and Lamy at Transatlantic Business Dialogue. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Economic and Social Committee: Executive Committee. |
| - | VIENNA: - ECB: Governing Council of the European Central Bank. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Rulings: joint cases C-95/99 - C-98/99, C180/99 Khalil (social security of migrant workers), C-77/99 Commission / Oder-Plan Architektur (institutional law), C-267/99 Adam (tax), C457/99 Commission / Greece (agriculture), C-110/00 Commission / Austria (social policy), C-254/00 Commission/ Netherlands (freedom to provide services). |
| 15/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Transport and Telecommunications Council (and 16/10). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 6/10 - | OTTAWA: - NATO Parliamentary Assembly: 47th annual session (to 9/10). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - JEF (Young European Federalists): Convention on European Youth. |
| 8/10 - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe: 2nd European conference on nationality (and 9/10). |
| 9/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Round table on bio-security: Mr. Busquin participating. |
| 10/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Speech by Mr. Busquin at colloquium on "Biotechnology in agriculture" (EP). |
| 11/10 - | ANTWERP: - Day of competition: on the subject "Pharmaceutical products and competition" and another on "The role of the national competition authorities in the framework of the modernisation of Community competition law" and on "Regulatory bodies and competition authorities" (and 12/10). |
| - | BUDAPEST: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: committee on social issues. |
| 12/10 - | BRUSSELS: - "Territorial authorities, the lawyer and Community law" (seminar organised by the delegation of the "Barreaux de France"). |
| 13/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on "Music in europe" organised by the Belgian Presidency. |