EUROPEAN UNION
| 3/12 - | BRUSSELS: - IGC Ministerial Conclave (institutional reform). |
| 4/12 - | BRUSSELS: - General Affairs Council (and 5/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Continuation IGC and meeting with EP President Ms Nicole Fontaine. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Ministerial negotiation conferences with Poland and Estonia. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Special Agriculture Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - European Parliament: committees: industry, employment and social affairs, foreign affairs, human rights, common security and defence policy (and 5/12). |
| 5/12 - | BRUSSELS: - Industry Council. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Ministerial negotiation conferences with Czech Republic, Slovenia, Cyprus and Hungry. |
| PARIS: - Troïka meeting, organised by the Presidency (with Ms Diamantopoulou's participation). | |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Conference of Presidents, enlarged to all MEPs. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP: Committees: regional policy and transport, industry and energy, agriculture, citizens' freedoms. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: Employment, social affairs, citizenship sections. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-448/98 Guimont (free movement of goods), C-477/98 Eurostock Meat Marketing (agric.) - Court of First Instance: Ruling T-136/98 Campogrande/Commission (statute of officials), T-32/00 Messe München / OHMI (intellectual property), T-197/99 Gooch/Commission (statute of officials). |
| 6/12 - | BRUSSELS: - Meeting of the European Commission. |
| - | JUAN-LES-PÏNS: - EPP Summit. |
| - | ANTIBES: - Summit of European Socialists. |
| - | NICE: - Summits of European Liberals. |
| 7/12 - | NICE: - European Council (to 9/12). |
| - | NICE: - Summit - European Conference. |
| - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: Transport, energy, infrastructures, information society sections. |
| - | LUXEMBOURG: - Court of Justice: Ruling C-2/99 Döhler (agriculture), C-395/99 Commission/Italy (agric.), C-69/99 Commission/UK (environment), C-423/99 Commission/Italy (competition); C-482/98 Italy/Commission (taxation), C-324/98 Telaustria and Telefonadress (corporate law), C-374/98 Commission/France (environment), C-38/99 Commission/France (environment), C-79/99 Schnorbus (social policy), C-94/99 Arge Gewässersqchutz (enterprise law), C-213/99 de Andrade (free movement of goods), C-214/99 Neste Markkinointi (competition). |
| 8/12 - | BRUSSELS: - ESC: Single Market section, production and consumption. |
| 11/12 - | STRASBOURG: - European Parliament: plenary session (to 14/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Health Council. |
| - | VIENTIANA: - EU-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (and 12/12). |
OTHER EVENTS
| 4/12 - | PARIS: - WEU Assembly (Western European Union): sitting (to 7/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Conference on electronic commerce (and 5/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Round table "Biotechnology and Environment". |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/Committees and UNHCR session on asylum and immigration (at the EP). |
| 5/12 - | PARIS: - Ministerial conference on WTO negotiations: agriculture and LDCs (and 6/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - Donors' Conference for East Timor (and 6/12). |
| 6/12 - | NICE: - Congress of the European Movement. |
| 7/12 - | SEINÄJOKI (Finland): - 15th General Assembly of the Regions of Europe (ARE) (and 8/12). |
| - | BRUSSELS: - EP/Radical MEPs and Radical Transnational Party: seminar on "Tibet" (and 8/12). |