EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities in the week beginning 26 March:* Weekly meeting of the Commission: Wednesday 28 March in Brussels. Points on the agenda:- Communication on options for the White Paper on European Governance- Guidelines for market analysis and assessment of dominant positions of electronic communications networks and services (competition)- eLearning Action Plan - Considering the education of tomorrow* Official visit of Mr Nielson to Central America: 25 to 30 March (El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua)* Mr Fischler at the signature with Slovakia of the Multi-annual and Annual Financing Convention: 16 March* Official visit of Mr Patten to Guatemala, 26 March: participation at the EU-San Jose Ministerial Meeting; then official visit to Colombia, 27 March: meeting with Mr Pastrana, President of the Republic; then to Chile, 28 March: participation at the Ministerial Meeting of the Rio Group, then official visit to Uruguay, 29 March* Ms Wallstrom in Spain, 26 March: meeting Jaime Matas e Palou, Spanish Minister for the Environment* Participation of Mr Liikanen and Mr Lamy at the conference of the UER (European of Radio-Television Union): 27 March* Mr Byrne in the United States, 27 and 28 March: meeting with Alan Larsson, Under-Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, Robert Zoellick, United States Trade Representative, Ann Veneman, Agriculture Secretary* Official visit of Mr Vitorino to the Balkans: 27 March* Ms Reding in Spain, 28 and 29 March: meeting Anna Birules, Minister for Communications and the Audio-visual, and Pilar del Castillo, Minister for Education, Culture and Sport* Mr Monti participates in the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association: 29 March in Washington)* Mr Busquin in Vienna, 29 March. Meeting with Elisabeth Gehrer, Minister for Research, and participation at the 'Present state and future perspectives of European Research' Forum. Then in Switzerland, 30 March: meeting with Ruth Dreifuss, Federal Advisor and visit to several of research projects* Mr Lamy at the WTO-Russia conference: 29 and 30 March in Moscow* Ms Diamantopoulou at the signature of the Programme of Education for Greece: 29 March* Mr Prodi and Ms Diamantopoulou at the celebration of 20 years of...