EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.

Committee meetings in Brussels

- Foreign Affairs. Tuesday August 31, Wednesday September 1, Thursday September 2, (PHS 3C50). Tuesday August 31: discussion with Gunter Verheugen, Commissioner for Enlargement. Wednesday September 1: discussion with Chris Patten, Commissioner for External Relations. Thursday September 2: Programme of Dutch Presidency: meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot; adoption of specific questionnaire for hearing of new Commissioner-designate;

adoption of draft Resolution on Iraq.

- Security and Defence Subcommittee. Wednesday September 1, (PHS 3C50):

meeting with Paul Van Den Ijssel, Chair of COARM Working Group in Council (Dutch Presidency) and Dick Oosting, Director of Amnesty International; Althea mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina - discussion with Admiral Rainer Feist, EU Operation Commander.

- Development. Monday August 30, Tuesday August 31, Wednesday September 1, (ASP 1G2). Monday August 30: meeting with Eveline Herfkens, co-ordinator of UN Secretary-General for Millennium Development Goals campaign. Tuesday August 31: adoption of specific questionnaire for hearing of new Commissioner-designate; Programme of Dutch Presidency: meeting with Agnes Van Ardenne, Dutch Minister for Co-operation and Development; situation in Darfur (Sudan): meeting with Daniel Augstburger (UN Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs) and Costanza Adinolfi, Director of European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO); presentation by ECHO Director Costanza Adinolfi of annual report 2003. Wednesday September 1: meeting with Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy; presentation by Koos Richelle, Director-General of EuropeAid, of 2004 annual report on the Commission's development policy and external aid.

- International Trade. Tuesday August 31, Wednesday September 1, (ASP 1G3). Tuesday August 31: discussion with Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy on international trade policy and the current state of play on key issues;

Programme of Dutch Presidency: meeting with Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Economic Affairs Minister. Wednesday September 1: adoption of specific questionnaire for hearing of new Commissioner-designate.

- Budgets. Wednesday September 1, Thursday September 2, (ASP 1G3): reports by Jan Mulder (ALDE, NL) on Amending Budget 7/2004 - Section III Commission, budget balance 2003, and Amending Budget 8/2004 - adjustments 2000 and 2003, allocation of own resources; report by Neena Gill (PES, UK) on Amending Budget 10/2004 - Section VIII...