EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main events scheduled for the week beginning July 5:

* Weekly meeting: Wednesday July 7 in Brussels. On the agenda:

- Notices on guidelines for state aid for the rescue and restructuring or companies in difficulty and for de minimis state aid (small amounts);

- Draft Amending Budget N[degrees]9 for 2004 (financing for the Turkish community of Cyprus);

- Regulation establishing a financial aid instrument to foster economic development in the Turkish Cypriot community; Regulation on the special trade conditions with the part of Cyprus where the Government lacks effective control; authorisation of the Cypriot Chamber of Commerce; specific rules for goods arriving from areas not under the effective control of the Cypriot Government; specific rules for goods arriving from areas under the effective control of the Cypriot Government;

- Communication on "Developing countries, international trade and sustainable development: the role of generalised tariff preferences for the decade 2006-2015";

- Decision on the planned merger of Tetra Laval/Sidel;

- Decision on national benefit plans and exchange of emission rights for greenhouse gases reported by Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Norway and the UK;

- Amendment of 2001 Regulation on the reciprocity mechanism (justice & home affairs).

* Meetings and visits:

- Monday 5: Mr Monti receives the Polish Secretary of State for the Economy, Employment and Social Policy Jacek Piechota; Mr Telicka receives Bernhard Grewin, President of the Standing Committee of European Doctors

Mr Fischler in Vienna; Messrs Barrot and Balazs in Hungary; Ms Grybauskaite in Vilnius; Official visit by Mr Nielson to Namibia (5-8); Official visit by Mr Potocnik to Armenia (5-6); Mr Lamy in Paris (5-6) for the EU-Africa Forum; Participation of Messrs Borg, Fischler and Ms Kalniete in the EPP Group study days (5-8, Budapest)

- Tuesday 6: Mr Patten receives the Foreign Minister of Yemen Abubakr Alkirby; Messrs Vitorino and Almunia receive the Foreign Minister of the Principality Andorra Juli Minoves Triquell; Mr Lamy receives Erhard Busek, special coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe; Mr Kallas receives Stanley Crossick, Director and Founding President of the European Policy Centre; Participation and speech by Mr Liikanen at the e-Government Conference (Barcelona)

- Wednesday 7...