EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main events in the week beginning April 12:

* Hearings of the ten new Commissioners from the acceding countries in the European Parliament: April 13 to 15 in Brussels

* Trips and visits:

- Monday April 12: Mr Busquin in South Korea (12-13)

- Tuesday 13: Official visit by Romano Prodi to China (13-16)

- Wednesday 14: Mr Kinnock receives the Minister-President of the Brussels Region, Jacques Simonet

- Thursday 15: Official visit by Messrs Nielson (15-16) and Lamy (16-17) to Jamaica. Ceremony to launch the Economic Partnership Agreements with the Caribbean states (April 16)

- Friday 16: Mr Liikanen to attend the Tissue Engineering Stakeholders' Conference (Centre Borschette)

- Saturday 17: Mr Patten to meet Vietnam's Foreign Minister Nguyen...