Monday 6 October
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee meetings: - Hearings of candidate commissioners (until 7/10): ECON-EMPL: Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia); ITRE-ENVI: Alenka Bratusek (Slovenia); IMCO: Andrus Ansip (Estonia); AFET: Federica Mogherini (Italy). Debates: AFCO: improving the way the EU operates: horizontal issues, relations with national parliaments; - REGI: implementation of the new structural funds; - IMCO: recommendations for a study into consumer protection aspects of financial services
Milan. European Council of Ministers. Informal meeting - Energy-Environment.
Tuesday 7 October
Brussels. European Parliament. Committee meetings: - Hearings of candidate commissioners: ECON-EMPL-ITRE: Jyrki Katainen (Finland); Conference of Presidents (open meeting): Frans Timmermans (Netherlands). - ENVI: workshop on novel food, ahead of changes to legislation.
Wednesday 8 October
Brussels. European Commission. Meeting of the European commissioners: adoption of enlargement 2014 package.
Luxembourg. European Council of Ministers. Transport: general debate on the directive on cross-border exchange of information about infringements of road safety rules; - regulation on port services; - rail transport: opening of the market and governance; - study of the communication on the civilian use of drones; - progress report on the regulation to implement a Single European Sky
Thursday 9 October
Luxembourg. European Council of Ministers. Justice and Home Affairs (also 10/10): Home Affairs: - debate on implementation of the EU's priorities in the fight against organised international crime (latest action carried out, best practices); - measures on foreign fighters (profiling people likely to sign up to fight abroad, suspect trips overseas, penal measures, cooperation with non-EU countries); - debate at the joint committee on measures to manage migration (information about the work of the Task Force for the Mediterranean)
Luxembourg. European Court of Justice: # Rulings: - C-428/13 (Yesmoke Tobacco - legality of 115% excise duty levied in Italy only on the cheapest cigarettes); - C-268/13 (Petru - possibility of obtaining treatment in another member state when the lack of essential supplies prevents an insured person from gaining timely treatment in the home country). # Opinions: C-527/13 (Cachaldora Fernandez - whether a Spanish law on permanent invalidity pensions discriminates against part-time workers)
Friday 10 October
Luxembourg. European Council of Ministers. Justice and Home Affairs Council: Justice: - regulation establishing the European Prosecutor's Office; - general regulation on data protection; - directive on the presumption of innocence and the right to attend criminal trials; - regulation to simplify free circulation by simplifying the acceptance of certain public documents.
Milan. European Council of Ministers. Meeting of ministers responsible for cohesion policy.
Luxembourg. European Court of Justice. General Court: # Ruling T-479 (Marchiani/PE - Is the EP allowed to recover allowances wrongly paid to former MEP Jean-Charles Marchiani because he invented three jobs?)