EUROPEAN UNION
| 8/10 | LUXEMBOURG: - IGC ministerial conclave (and 9/10). |
| 9/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - General Affairs Council (and 10/10). |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - EU-Morocco Association Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: constitutive session (to 12/10). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: environment, public health and consumers (to 11); foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy (to 11); petitions (to 11); economic and monetary (to 11); legal and internal market (and 10); women's rights and equal opportunities (and 10), agriculture and rural development (and 10). - Public hearing on the relaunching of Euro-Mediterranean partnership and Barcelona Process (Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Foreign and Security Policy). |
| 10/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Environment Council. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - EU-Bulgaria Association Council - EU-Poland Association Council - EU-Azerbaijan Cooperation Council - EU-Georgia Cooperation Council - EU-Armenia Cooperation Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: budgetary control (and 11); fisheries (and 11); citizens' freedoms and rights, justice and home affairs (to 12); regional policy, transport and tourism (to 12); culture, youth, education and sport (and 11). |
| 11/10 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: industry, external trade, research and energy (and 12); budgets (and 12); employment and social affairs (and 12); constitutional affairs (and 12). - Public hearing "town twinning" (culture committee). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conciliation Committee (EP/Council) with view to finding compromise relating to directives concerning rail transport. |
| 12/10 - | BIARRITZ: - EPP Summit - PES Summit. |
| - | MOSCOW: - 4th EU-Russia Cooperation Committee. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Temporary "Echelon" Committee. - Public hearing: "AIDS, inescapable challenge of EU-ACP cooperation". |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-314/98 Snellers Auto's (approximation of legislation), C-372/98 J.H. Cooke (agric.), C-480/98 Spain/Commission (State aid), C-3/99 Cidrerie Ruwet (approximation of legislation). - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-123/99 JT's Corporation/Commission (institutional law). |
| 13/10 - | BIARRITZ: - Informal European Council (and 14/10). |
| 16/10 - | VERSAILLES: - Meeting of EU Parliaments - XXIII rd Conference of bodies specialised in Community affairs (COSAC) (and 17/10). |
| 17/10 - | LUXEMBOURG: - Employment and Social Policy Council. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Joint session Ecofin/JHA Councils.U |
OTHER EVENTS
| 9/10 - | EDINBURGH: - Europabio 2000: 4th European Congress (to 13/10). |
| 10/10 - | BIRMINGHAM: - NATO: Informal meeting of Defence Ministers (and 11/10). |
| 11/10 - | STRASBOURG: - European Conference against Racism: "All different, all equal: from theory to practice" (to 13/10). |
| - | BERLIN: - Conference "Sustainable Tourism, environment and employment" (in context of campaign of Council of Europe for "Europe, a common heritage") (to 13). |
| 15/10 - | KRAKOW: - Permanent Conference of European Education Ministers of Council of Europe: 20th session "educational policies for democratic citizenship and social cohesion: stakes and strategies for Europe" (to 17/10). |
| 16/10 - | FRANKFURT: - Colloquy organised by Council of Europe (Culture Ministers) and the German Federal Minister for Cultural Affairs on the "prospects for books" (and 17/10). |