EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities in the week of February 18-24:* Weekly meeting of the Commission: Thursday February 21 in Brussels. Points on the agenda:- Report on the implementation of the main trends of economic policy- Draft Decision on a proposal in the framework of Article 8(2) of Council Regulation N?4064/89 (COMP/M.2495 - Haniel/Fels) * Visits by Commissioners- February 18: Mr. NIELSON in Mozambique, Mauritius and the Seychelles (February 15-23); Mr. LAMY in Cambodia (February 18-19); Speech by Mr. MONTI to the Competition Law Association (London); Speech by Mr. LIIKANEN at the "Sustainable Decision Making Conference " (Maastricht); Speech by Mr. BUSQUIN to the Conference "Humanitarian mine clearance: the need to rapidly reinforce a coherent European strategy"; Speech by Mrs. REDING to the opening of the 1st Forum of European Televised Programs (Barcelona); Participation of Mrs. DIAMANTOPOULOU in a conference on violence against women, organised by the Spanish Presidency (Santiago de Compostela); - February 19: Mr. MONTI before the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs of the EP; Mr. LIIKANEN before the Tourism Committee of the EP; Mrs. de PALACIO meets the British Minister for Transport, Mr. John SPELLAR; Mr. SOLBES meets the Committee of Directors of Eurostat (Luxembourg); Mr. VERHEUGEN meets the Romanian Secretary of State for European Affairs and Minister for Regional Planning, Mrs. Hildegarde PUWAK; Speech by Mr VERHEUGEN and Mr PATTEN before three committees of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO; Participation of Mr. PATTEN in the Transatlantic Journalists Forum; Participation of Mr. BYRNE in the "WHO European Ministerial Conference for a Tobacco-free Europe" (Warsaw) - February 20: Mr. PATTEN before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the EP; Mr. PATTEN before the Development Committee of the EP; Mr. BARNIER before Regional Policy Committee of the EP; Mrs. REDING at the official opening of Bruges as European City of Culture - February 21: Mrs. WALLSTR?M in Slovakia (February 21-22). Meetings with the Prime Minister, Mr. Mikul?s DZURINDA, and the Minister for the Environment, Mr. L?szl? MIKLOS (Bratislava); Mr. PATTEN gives "Newman Lecture" in University College (Dublin); Opening Speech by Mrs. DIAMANTOPOLOU at the EU-US Seminar. - February 22: Mr. LIIKANEN at the informal Telecoms and Information Society meeting (Vitoria); Mr PRODI, Mr BOLKESTEIN and Mr SOLBES at the Conference "Mid-Term Review of Progress towards European Financial...