EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities in the week beginning March 4:* Weekly meeting of the Commission: Wednesday March 6 in Brussels. Points on the agenda:- Communication to the European Council assessing the switch-over to Euro notes and coins- Draft amendment to the Directive on end-of-life vehicles* Visits to the Commission:- Monday March 4: Mr Prodi and Mr Vitorino meet the UK Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine; Mr Nielson meets the Cuban Deputy Minister for Foreign Investment and Economic Co-operation, Rodrigo Malmierca; Mr Busquin meets the Vice-President of the Walloon Government and Minister for Research, Serge Kubla, and the Belgian Minister for Finance, Didier Reynders; Mr Barnier meets Raffaelle Fitto, President of Puglia and President of the Regional Policy Commission of the Committee of the Regions- Tuesday 5: Miss de Palacio meets the Prime Minister of the Saarland, Peter M?ller; Mr Solbes meets the Danish Minister for Finance, Thor Pedersen- Wednesday 6: Mr Bolkestein and Mr Verheugen meet the Prime Minister of Estonia, Siim Kallas; Mrs Diamantopoulou meets the Bavarian Minister for the Social Affairs, Mrs Stewens; Mr Solbes meets Mr Norbert Wieczorek, Vice-President of the SPD Group; Mrs Schreyer meets Jozef Stahl, President of the Court of Auditors of the Slovak Republic; Mrs Reding meets Arne Wessberg, President of the European Broadcasting Union; Mrs Diamantopoulou meets Giannakis Omirou, President of the Cypriot Socialist Party- Thursday 7: Mr Prodi meets the President of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Boris Traijkovski, and the Prime Minister of Estonia, Siim Kallas; Miss de Palacio meets Baron...