Monday 1 December

Brussels. Presidency of the European Council handed over to new president, Donald Tusk.

Brussels. Council of Ministers. Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Council. Health: progress in regulations on medical equipment; investment in helathcare systems in order to meet EUROPE 2020 Strategy targets; conclusions document on vaccination as a public health tool, patient safety, quality care (infection-prevention) and innovation in the interest of patients

Brussels. European Parliament. Committee meetings (until 4/12): COCOBU: 2013 discharge 2013 (on 1/12); ECON: European Commission position on national budget reforms with Commissioner Moscovici and the Annual Growth Survey and alert mechanism with Commissioners Dombrovskis and Thyssen (2/12). EMPL: Job-related social aspects of TTIP with the European negotiator Iganacio Garcia Bercero (2/12). INTA: Debate with Commissioner Malmström on the EU-US plan to relaunch TTIP talks (3/12). LIBE: Debate on immigration (vote on a resolution on solidarity and burden-sharing among member states, duties relating to search and rescue operations, safe, legal ways of requesting asylum and cooperation with non-EU countries) (3/12). AFET: Interparliamentary exchange of views between national delegations and Commissioners Hahn and Mogherini; interparliamentary discussion about enlargement progress report and Council's annual report on CFSP (1/12); Debate on human rights with Khodorkovsky (2/12). ENVI: Debates about stability reserve for emissions markets, directive on fuel quality; Chemicals chapter of TTIP talks (3 and 4/12). IMCO: Examination of draft cable installation rules (3/12). AFCO: Public hearing on reform of European electoral law (4/12)

Strasbourg. ACP-EU Parliamentary Assembly. Twenty-eighty plenary session (until 3/12). Debates and voting on: - the Ebola epidemic; - the spread of terrorism in Africa; - immigration; - small, developing islands; - reconciliation in countries emerging from conflict

Lima. Presidency of the Council and the European Commission. Attendance at the COP 20 talks on climate change (until 12/12)

Rome. European Commission. Commissioner Timmermans attends plenary of Conference of European Union Affairs Specialist Bodies (COSAC)

Tuesday 2 December

Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER I

Luxembourg. * European Court of Justice. #Rulings: C-148-149-150/13 (Assessing the credibility of an asylum-seeker's claim to be homosexual). C196/13 (Commission/Italy - Failure to apply a court ruling on failure to comply with EU waste directives). C-378/13 (Commission/Greece - Failure to apply a court ruling of 2005 on faulty transposition of waste directive)

Wednesday 3 December

Brussels. Council of Ministers. Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council. * Transport: General guidelines on competitiveness in the air transport system and continuing the Single European Sky initiative; - policy section of the rail package: general guidelines on updating standardisation of accounting for railway companies; - progress report on opening up the rail market and boosting governance; - conclusions document on transport infrastructure and trans-European network; - allowing the member states to become stakeholders in the Convention on Staff Training Standards for Fishing Vessel Staff, Issuing of Patents and Waiting Time (STCW-F)

Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER 2

Rome (Farnesina). Council of Ministers. Meeting of ministers responsible for public administration. Discussion about the idea of open governance.

Luxembourg. * European General Court: #Ruling T-57/11 (Castelnou Energia/Commission - Non-objection by the Commission to the compulsory purchase of Spanish coal for ten power stations in Spain)

Thursday 4 December

Brussels. Council of Ministers. Competitiveness Council (also 5/12): * Internal Market and Industry (4/12): - Priorities for boosting Internal Market; - conclusions document on smart regulation and risk-management programme for customs; - debate on the competitiveness of industry: approval of a conclusions document on the role of SMEs and the tourist industry (examining the package tour directive).* Research and innovation, space policy (5/12): Debate on the future of science: conclusions document on progress in implementing European Research Area, Improving European competitiveness through innovation and research, Promoting EuroMed cooperation. Debate on guidelines for European space policy.

Brussels. Council of Ministers. Justice and Home Affairs Council (also 5/12): * Justice (4/12): General guidelines on general Regulation on data protection; -progress on the directive on protection of individuals when personal information is processed by the authorities; - agreement in principle on the regulation on insolvency proceedings; - general guidelines on directive strengthening the assumption of innocence and the right to attend one's own trial for criminal cases, the regulation on Eurojust, a regulation to establish a European instruction to pay; - policy debate about European prosecutor. * Home affairs (5/12): - Conclusions document on Schengen assessment and debate about the six-monthly report on the functioning of the Schengen Area; - policy debate on raft of measures covering returning foreign fighters; - debate about terrorism: guidelines on a strategy to combat radicalisation and recruitment, examination of two reports by the anti-terror coordinator on application of the strategy to fight terrorism and the financing of terrorism, examination of work on the directive on the use of information about airline passengers. A joint committee will examine progress on the directive on the protection of personal data and follow-up of a Council conclusions document on managing immigration.

Luxembourg. European General Court: #Ruling: C-243/13 (Commission/Sweden - Failure to apply a 2012 court ruling on inadequate transposition of an environmental directive)

Friday 5 December

Brussels. Council of Ministers. COREPER I