EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main events of the week beginning March 24:

* Weekly meeting, Wednesday, March 26 in Brussels. On the agenda:

- Proposals for decisions on the principles, intermediate objectives and conditions of the partnership for accession with Bulgaria and Romania;

- Communication on strengthening Turkey's pre-accession strategy and proposal for a Decision on the principles, intermediate objectives and conditions of the accession partnership;

- Annual Report on the Stabilisation and Association Process for South-East Europe;

- Directive on transparency obligations for information on issuers whose securities can be traded on a regulated market;

- Proposal for renewal of the term of office of members of the OLAF Supervisory Committee.

* Commission seminar on immigration: Wednesday, March 26 at 3pm

* Travel and visits:

- Monday, March 24: Mrs Wallstrom meets Spanish Environment Minister Elvira Rodriguez; Mr Kinnock meets Luxembourg's Deputy Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs, External Trade, the Public Service and Administrative Reform, Lydie Polfer; Mr Fischler delivers a speech in Vienna; Mr Byrne makes an official visit to Uruguay

- Tuesday, March 25: Mr Prodi meets President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov; Messrs Bolkestein, Solbes and Verheugen meet Sweden's Deputy Finance Minister Gunnar Lund; Mr Nielson meets South African Energy Minister Phumizile Mlambo-Ngcuka; Mr Verheugen meets Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy; Mr Lamy meets Swiss Minister for Economic Affairs Joseph Deiss; Mr Patten meets the President of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Adnan Terzic; Mrs Schreyer meets the Minister-President and Finance Minister of the Land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Harald Ringstorff and Otto Ebnet; Miss de Palacio meets Louis...