EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

• Position: Brief Article

* Weekly meeting of the Commission: April 26 in Brussels. Items likely to feature on the agenda include:

- Guidelines for the Community initiatives URBAN II and INTERREG II

- reform of third country assistance

- enterprise policy and programme 2001-2006

- telecommunications regulatory framework; decision on the European content of global telecoms networks; opening up the local loop

- Stability Programme for Austria

- Directive on renewable energy

* April 24: Commission services are closed

* April 24: Mr Fischler makes an official visit to the US (24-26). Meeting with Charlene Barshefsky, US Trade Representative, and Dan Glickman, US Secretary of Agriculture (Washington - April 24). Speech at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (New York - April 25-26)

* Mr Solbes at the European Central Bank Meeting (Frankfort) April 27

* Mr Byrne makes an official visit to Northern Ireland (April 27-28). Meting with Nick Brown, UK Agriculture Minister. Speech at the Annual General Meeting of the Ulster Farmers' Union. Meeting with the "Food Safety Promotion Board" and the "General Consumer Council for Northern Ireland"

* April 28: Mr Prodi at the conference "Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes" (Bilbao, Spain)

Visits to the Commission: April 25: Mr Lamy (25) and Mrs Diamantopoulou (26) meet Meral Gezgin Eris, President of the Foundation for the Economic Development of Turkey. Mr Lamy meets a delegation of Greenpeace International led by Thilo Bode; Mrs Reding meets the European Education Trade Unions...