EUROPEAN UNION
| 2/12 - | BRUSSELS: - Health and Consumer Council; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Eurogroup meeting; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: Foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy (and 3); budgets (and 3), economic and monetary (and 3); legal and internal market (and 3); industry, external trade, research and energy (and 3), agriculture (and 3); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - CESE: conference on "human rights in the workplace"; |
| 3/12 - | BRUSSES: - Ecofin Council; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Employment and Social Policy Council; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Commission meeting; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: debate on "The Convention, economic governance and full employment, enlargement" (organised by the Movement for a United States of Europe); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: legal freedoms and citizens' rights; petitions; |
| 4/12 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: plenary session (and 5); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - High level ministerial meeting with candidate countries on progress made in the field of social policy; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Convention: presentations of the Benelux's common position; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ACP-EU: meeting of economic and social circles (to 6/12); |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Formal hearing for the 50th anniversary of the Court of Justice; |
| 5/12 - | BRUSSELS: - Telecommunications Council; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Convention: plenary session (and 6/12); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Special Commission meeting on the Convention - The Commission presents it contribution to the work of the Convention to the EP; |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Official signing of the "Voluntary agreement within the framework of Sectorial Dialogue by the Social Partners' Committee for Agriculture"; |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: rulings: C-174/01 Commission/Luxembourg, C324/01 Commission/Belgium (environment and consumers), C-379/00 Overland Footwear (Customs Union). - Court of First Instance: rulings: T-91/01 BioID/OHMI, T-130/01 Sykes Enterrises/OHMI (intellectual property), T-119/99, T-209/99, T-70/00, T-249/00 Hoyer/Commission, T-277/01 Stevens/Commission (status of officials), T-114/00 Aktionsgemeinschaft Recht und Eigentum/Commission (State aid); |
| 6/12 - | BRUSSELS: - Transport Council; |
| - | ROME: - PES/EP colloquium on "Uniqueness and diversity - Cultural co-operation in the EU"; |
| - | MEXICO: - Mr. Byrne at the 3rd ministerial meeting on health, security and bio-terrorism; |
| 9/12 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs and External Affairs Council (and 10/12); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Environment Council (and 10/12); |
OTHER EVENTS
| 2/12 - | PARIS: - WEU Assembly (Western European Union): session (to 4/12); |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe conference to draw up European strategies against violence in schools (to 4/12); |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the ecological label; |
| - | BONN: - Congress on defence: "On the way to Integrated European Armed Forces" (and 3/12); |
| 3/12 - | BRUSSELS: NATO/Military Committee: meeting at Chiefs-of-Staff level (and 4/12) - and with the Chiefs of Defence of Russia, Ukraine and of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership; |
| 4/12 - | BERLIN: - Chancellor Schroeder-President Chirac meeting; |
| 9/12 - | COPENHAGEN: Conference: "Reducing Social Inequalities in Health among children and young people (and 10/12); |