EUROPEAN UNION
| 4/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Protection Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Commissioners designate: Peter Mandelson (trade, international competitiveness)/ committee on international trade; Olli Rehn (enlargement)/ committee on foreign affairs |
| - | THE HAGUE: - CoR/Economic and Social Policy Committee (ESPC): seminar on "Employment in the context of the Lisbon Strategy" |
| 5/10 - | AMSTERDAM: - Informal Conference of Ministers of European Affairs "Communication Europe" (how to improve communication about Europe) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Commissioners designate: Benita Ferrero-Waldner (external relations)/committee on foreign affairs, Rocco Buttiglione (justice, freedom, security)/ committee on civil liberties; Joe Borg (fisheries)/ committee on fisheries |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Political and Security Committee |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-475/01 Commission/ Greece (taxation), joint affairs ruling C-397/01 à C-403/01 Pfeiffer (social policy), ruling C-442/02 CaixaBank France (freedom of establishment), ruling C-524/03 Commission/ Gianniotis (institutional law) |
| 6/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearings of Commissioners designate: Louis Michel (development)/ committee on development; Rocco Buttiglione (JHA)/committee on legal affairs; Mariann Fischer Boel (agriculture)/ committee on agriculture |
| 7/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Transports, Telecommunications and Energy Council |
| - | HANOI: - EU/ASEM Summit (to 9/10) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Political and Security Committee |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: hearings of Commissioners designate: Charlie McCreevy (internal market)/ internal market and economic affairs committees; Joaquin Almunia (EMU)/ committee on economic. affairs ; Ingrida Udre (taxation)/ committee on economic affairs and internal market |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ECB: Council of Governors of the European Central Bank |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-255/01 Markopoulos (company law), ruling C-103/02 Commission/ Italy (environment), ruling C-189/03 Commission/ Netherlands (freedom to provide services), ruling C-153/01 Spain/ Commission (agriculture), ruling C-136/02 P Mag Instrument/ OHIM (intellectual property), ruling C-247/02 Sintesi (alignment of legislation), ruling C-312/02 Sweden/ Commission (agriculture), ruling C-402/02 Commission/ France (free movement of persons), ruling C-239/03 Commission/ France (environment), ruling C-341/03 Commission/ Greece (social provisions for migrants workers), ruling C-379/02 Imexpo Trading (TDC), ruling C-483/03 Commission/ UK, ruling C-501/03 Commission/ Sweden, ruling C-550/03 Commission/ Greece (transports) |
| 8/10 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: hearing of Commissioner designate Markos Kyprianou (health, consumers)/ environment + internal market committees |
OTHER EVENTS
| 2/10 - | BANGKOK: - 13th Conference of the parties (COP13)to the Convention on international trade in species of flora and fauna threatened with extinction (to 14/10) |
| 4/10 - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (to 8/10) |
| - | NEW YORK: - Mr Nielson attends UN International Forum for Social Development |
| 5/10 - | MOSCOW: - Seminar on the fight against funding terrorism, under plans to fight the laundering of capital in the Russian Federation: the Council of Europe and the Commission (and 6/10) |
| 8/10 - | GASTEIN: - Speech by Mr Byrne to the European Health Forum |