EUROPEAN UNION
| 1/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Extraordinary meeting of heads of state |
| 2/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Environment Council |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on creativity and innovation: best practice in EU programmes (also 3/03) |
| - | PRAGUE: - Conference on EU enlargement five years on |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/political groups: week preparing for plenary session |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: Economic and Monetary Affairs; Employment and Social Affairs; Fisheries; Human Rights. - Public hearing on the consumer rights directive (Internal Market Committee) |
| 3/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Policy and Security Committee (also 6/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: conference on scientific cooperation between the EU and developing countries, organised by the EP's scientific evaluation committee (STOA) (also 4/03) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-249/06 Commission/Sweden, Ruling C-205/06 Commission/Austria (foreign relations) |
| 4/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission |
| - | BRUSSELS: - COREPER I and II |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-424/05 Italy/Commission, Ruling T-445/05 Associazione italiana del risparmio gestito and Fineco Asset Management/Commission, Ruling on combined cases T-265/04, T-292/04, T-504/04 Tirrenia di Navigazione/Commission (state aid), Ruling T-168/07 Professional Tennis Registry/OHIM (intellectual property) |
| 5/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Competitiveness Council (also 6/03) |
| - | PRAGUE: - European summit of cities and regions, organised by the CoR (also 6/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Conference of Presidents - examining reform of EP committees |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: committees: International Trade; Culture; Women's Rights - Celebrating International Women's Day with national parliaments, focussing on women and the European elections. - Public hearings: “Relations transatlantiques dans le domaine de la sécurité” (Security and Defence Sub-Committee). - “Renforcer les libertés fondamentales et la sécurité sur internet” (Civil Liberties Committee). - “Le rôle des diffuseurs publics” (Culture Committee) |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-88/07 Commission/Spain (free circulation of goods), Ruling C-222/07 Uteca (freedom to supply services), Ruling C-350/07 Kattner Stahlbau (competition), Ruling C-479/07 France/Council, Ruling C-556/07 Commission/France (fisheries policy), Ruling C-388/07 The Incorporated Trustees of the National Council for Ageing (social policy), Ruling C-302/07 J D Wetherspoon (taxation), Ruling C-545/07 Apis-Hristovich (approximation of legislation) |
| - | FRANKFURT: - ECB: European Central Bank Governing Council meeting |
| 9/03 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (until 12/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumers Council (also 10/03) |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of Eurogroup |
OTHER EVENTS
| 2/03 - | SHARM-EL-SHEIKH: - Gaza donor conference |
| 3/03 - | BRUSSELS: - Presentation by EU Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou of book “The Voice of 12,000 Patients” on Rare Disease Day |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference “Cyberellas are IT!” - Cyber-Cinderellas and how the EU information and communications technology industry needs women - Signing and presentation of code of good practice by Commissioner Viviane Reding |
| - | STRASBOURG: - Congress of Council of Europe local and regional powers: plenary session (until 5/03) |