EUROPEAN UNION
| 16/04 - | BAMAKO/MALI: - ACP/EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: 9th session (to 21/04) |
| 18/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Competitiveness Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: committees: international trade (and 19); economic and monetary affairs (and 19); internal market and consumer protection (and 19); transport and tourism (to 20); agriculture (and 19); sub-commission on security and defence |
| 19/04 - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: committees: Foreign affairs (and 20); budgetary control (and 20); employment and social affairs (and 20); industry, research and energy (and 20); women's rights and gender equality (and 20); petitions (and 20); temporary commission on the political challenges and budgetary resources of the enlarged Union.- Hearing of Mr Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, candidate for the Board of the ECB.- Public hearing on future of textiles and clothing industry.- “The challenges of social dialogue in Europe”, public hearing with the German social partners. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: joint affairs ruling T-380/02, T-128/03 Success-Marketing/ OHIM - Chipita (intellectual property) |
| 20/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: budgets (and 21); environment (and 21); regional development (and 21); culture and education (and 21); constitutional affairs (and 21) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: ruling T-211/03 Faber Chimica/ OHIM - Industrias Quimicas Naber, ruling T-318/03 Atomic Austria/ OHIM - Fabricas Agrupadas de Munecas de Onil (intellectual property), ruling T-86/04 Sundholm/ Commission (staff regulations), ruling T-273/02 Krüger/ OHIM - Calpis (intellectual property) |
| 21/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Transports, Telecommunications and Energy Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: committee on legal affairs; civil liberty, justice and home affairs.- Public hearings “EU anti-drug action plan (2005-2008)”.- “Legal protection for designs for spare parts” |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: ruling C-25/03 HE (taxation), ruling C-140/03 Commission/ Greece (freedom of establishment), ruling C-207/03 Novartis, ruling C-252/03 Millenium Pharmaceuticals (alignment of legislations), ruling C-267/03 Lindberg (industrial policy), ruling C-186/04 Housieaux (environment).- Court of First Instance: ruling T-28/03 Holcim (Germany)/ Commission (competition), ruling T-269/02 PepsiCo/OHIM (intellectual property) |
| 24/04 | LUXEMBOURG: - Informal ministerial meeting: external trade |
| 25/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs and External Relations Council (+ Development) (and 26) |
| 26/04 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Meeting of the enlarged Troïka with Croatia |
| LUXEMBOURG: - Agriculture and Fisheries Council | |
OTHER EVENTS
| 18/04 - | STRASBOURG: - Council of Europe and OSCE: joint meeting to reinforce cooperation |
| 20/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Conference “European Social Agenda after the European Council” (Group for European political studies, European Social Observatory and EP's Information Bureau for Belgium) |
| 21/04 - | BRUSSELS: - Colloquium “Statuary and complementary social insurance in Europe - Dealing with increasing risks such as health, accidents at work, incapacity and dependence at European level” organised by the European Association of Joint Social Protection Institutions (AEIP) |
| - | BUDAPEST: - Budapest Meeting- European Young Writers' Forum (to 24/04) |
| 22/04 - | LEUVEN: - European congress of lawyers specialising in European asylum and immigration policy “on the future of free movement in the EU” |
| 25/04 - | STRASBOURG: - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: session (to 29/04) |