EUROPEAN COMMISSION.

Main activities in the week commencing February 14:

* Weekly meeting: Wednesday February 16 in Brussels. Points on the agenda:

- Recommendations on the updated stability program by Spain and on the updated convergence programs by: Portugal, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovania, United Kingdom, Hungary;

- Recommendation on the deficit procedure concerning Hungary;

- Communication on consumer rights for the sector of transports;

- Directive concerning the air passengers information on the identity of the flight carrier;

- Regulation regarding the rights of people with reduced mobility for air transport

Meetings (in Brussels except where otherwise indicated) and travel:

- Monday February 14

Jose Manuel Barroso and Mr Rehn meet the prime minister of former-Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Vlado Buckovski; Mr Figel' and Mr Mc Creevy meet the Swedish vice- prime minister and minister of European Affairs Bosse Ringholm; Mr Mandelson meets the Bangladeshi minister of Finance Saifur Rhaman; Jose Manuel Barroso meets the European Business Leaders Convention members; Mrs Grybauskaite meets a European Affairs Commission of the Lithuanian Seimas delegation; Commissioner Louis Michel will take part in the informal ministerial meeting on Cooperation to Development (14-15, Luxembourg); Mr Frattini in Berlin (14-15), meets Justice minister Brigitte Zypries and Home Affairs minister Otto Schily, and representatives in Bundestag of the European, Juridical and Home Affairs Commissions in Bundestag; Mr Kovacs meets the German minister of Finance Hans Eichel in Berlin; Mrs Kroes in Paris, meets with minister of Economy Herve Gaymard, delegated minister of Industry Patrick Devedjian and with the general director of Concurrence, Consumption and Fraud Repression Guillaume Cerutti, and meeting with French Concurrence authorities; Mr Kyprianou officially visits Moscou (14-15), he will visit the Russian Health Ministry's Federal AIDS Centre (14), and will meet with Agriculture minister Aleksey Vasilyevich Gordeyev, the Head of Russias Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service Sergei Dankvert, and with Health minister Mikhail Zurabov (15); Mrs Hubner in the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen, will meet with the Dortmund maire Gehrard Langemeyer, with minister of Home and European Affairs Wolfram Kuschke, and with minister of Economy and Work Harald Schartau, also visit of Gelsenkirchen projects; Mr Barrots conferencea: "Europe, a society to invent, a favoured space for human...