NE PAS TRADUIRE - WEEK FROM 4 TO 10 SEPTEMBER.

Monday 4 September

European Parliament

Plenary session

*Passenger car related taxes - Debate on report by Karin RIIS-JORGENSEN (ALDE, DK)

*Funding to deal with pollution caused by ships - Debate on report by Luis DE GRANDES PASCUAL (EPP-ED, ES)

*Forest fires and floods - Commission statement, followed by debate

*Situation in DR Congo - Commission statement, followed by debate

Parliamentary committees

Committee on Budgets

*Crisis in Lebanon - request for transfer of appropriations for humanitarian air to Lebanon

Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection

*Services in the Internal Market - first exchange of views concerning Council's common position - rapporteur Evelyne GEBHARDT (PES, DE)

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

*Basic salaries and allowances applicable to Europol staff - vote on report by Claude MORAES (PES, UK)

*Europol's staff regulations - vote on report by Claude MORAES (PES, UK)

*Taking account of convictions in the Member States in the course of new criminal proceedings - vote on report by Panayiotis DEMETRIOU (EPP-ED, CY)

*Presentation on the authorisation to open negotiations for an agreement with the USA on the use of passenger name records (PNR) data to prevent and combat terrorism and transnational crime, including organised crime - rapporteur Sophia IN 'T VELD (ALDE, NL) - discussion with European Commission Vice President, Franco FRATTINI on the ongoing negotiations on PNR and the preparation of the Tampere II informal Justice and Home Affairs Council, 20-21 September 2006

Committee on Development

*Study/Information mission to Nepal (15-20 July 2006) - mission report by Luisa MORGANTINI (EUL/NGL, IT)

Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European Countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners

*Discussion with Carlo BONINI, journalist of "La Repubblica", Italy

Committee on Foreign Affairs

*Report on Turkey's progress towards accession - Vote on report by Camiel EURLINGS (EPP-ED, NL)

Other committee meetings

The following committee is also meeting on Monday 4 September 2006:

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, 19:00-20:30, LOW N1.3

Council of Ministers

*Meeting of the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Frontiers and Asylum (SCIFA)

COREPER I

Brussels

4-5 September, Helsinki

*Conference on Labour Mobility in the Lisbon Agenda

European Commission

Travel and visits

* Mr Barroso to meet President of "Mouvement Reformateur" (MR), Didier Reynders, and members of the Belgian Council; speech at the House of Representatives

* Messrs Barroso (VIP 17:15) and Michel (10VIP 11:00) to meet the President of Togo, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe

* Mr Frattini to meet Rumen Petkov, Bulgarian Home Affairs Minister (Rome)

* Speech by Mr Borg at opening of IMARES academic year at Wageningen University, Netherlands

* Mr Spidla to take part in First ASEM/Asia-Europe Meeting/Labour and Employment Ministers Conference (Potsdam, 03-05)

* Mrs Ferrero-Waldner to meet Serbian Finance Minister Mladjan Dinkic

* Mr Figel to meet French Minister for Culture and Communication, Renaud Donnedieu De Vabres

* Mrs Hubner to meet Poland's Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Agnieszka Bolesta

* Mr Kyprianou to meet French Agriculture Minister Dominique Bussereau

Economic and Social Committee

*Participation of Mrs Anne-Marie SIGMUND, President of the EESC, to the EESC/Finnish ESC joint conference: "Labour mobility in the Lisbon agenda"

*Meeting of the Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN)

Tuesday 5 September

European Parliament

Plenary session

*Oral question to the Commission on the suspension of negotiations on the Doha Development Agenda

*Fight against violence (2007-2013) - Debate on the report by Lissy GRONER (PES, DE)

*Counterfeiting of medicines - oral question to the Commission

*Improving the mental health of the population - Debate on the report by John BOWIS (EPP-ED, UK)

*European contract law - oral question to the Commission

*Specific agricultural measures for the smaller Aegean islands - Report by Joseph DAUL (EPP-ED, FR)

*Silkworm rearing - Report by Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT)

*Small consignments of goods - Report by Giuseppe GARGANI (EPP-ED, IT)

*Levy in the milk and milk products sector - Report by Joseph DAUL (EPP-ED, FR)

*Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals - Report by Johannes BLOKLAND (IND/DEM, NL)

*Court of Auditors special report - No 5/2005 on interpretation expenditure incurred by the Parliament, Commission and the Council - Report by Alexander STUBB (EPP-ED, FI)

*Formal sitting - Tarja HALONEN, Finnish President

*Council presentation on the draft general budget of the European Communities - Financial year 2007

*European social model for the future - Debate on the report by Proinsias DE ROSSA (PES, IE) and Jose Albino SILVA PENEDA (EPP-ED, PT)

*Emission allowance trading scheme: national allocation plans (2008-2012) - statements by the Council and Commission

*Question time to the Commission

The President's diary

*Welcome by President Josep BORRELL to Finnish President, Tarja HALONEN

Council of Ministers

Political and Security Committee (PSC)

European Commission

Weekly meeting, Strasbourg

On the agenda:

*Proposal for fishing possibilities in the Baltic Sea for 2007

*Recommendation for a European Qualifications Framework to facilitate transparency and recognition of qualifications in Europe

*Orientation debate on health services

Travels and visits

* Mr Barroso to meet Tarja Halonen, President of Finland (Strasbourg)

* Messrs Barroso and Rehn to meet Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Serguei Stanishev (press conference 18:30) (Strasbourg)

* Mrs Reding to meet Japan's Home Affairs and Communication Minister, Heizo Takenaka (Strasbourg)

* Mrs Hubner to meet Emma Bonino, Italian Minister for European Policy and International Trade (Strasbourg)

Court of First Instance

Second Chamber

*Hearing T-230/05 Golf USA v OHMI (GOLF USA)

Intellectual property

Community trade mark - Action against Decision R 823/2004-2 of the Second Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 25 April 2005 dismissing the appeal against the decision of the examiner who refused to register the word mark "GOLF USA" in respect of goods in Classes 25, 28 and 35

Fifth Chamber

*Hearing T-472/04 Tsarnavas v Commission

Staff Regulations of Officials

Economic and Social Committee

*11th meeting of the Liaison Group with civil society organisations and networks

Wednesday 6 September

European Parliament

Plenary session

*EU preparation for its future role in Kosovo - oral question to the Council

*Joint debate - EU-Albania Agreement

*Council statement on Albania

*Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania - Report by Toomas Hendrik ILVES (PES, EE)

*Fisheries agreement between the EC and the Republic of Seychelles - Report by Carmen FRAGA ESTEVEZ (EPP-ED, ES)

*Fisheries agreement between the EC and the Union of the Comoros - Report by Luis Manuel CAPOULAS SANTOS (PES, PT)

*Protection of personal data - Report by Martine ROURE (PES, FR)

*Simplifying and improving the Common Fisheries Policy (2006-2008) - Philippe MORILLON (ALDE, FR)

*Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities: proposition of a resolution

*Situation in the Middle East - Council and Commission statements, followed by debate

*EU-China relations - Debate on the report by Bastiaan BELDER (IND/DEM, NL)

*Eco-labelling schemes for fisheries products - Debate on the report by Carmen FRAGA ESTEVEZ (EPP-ED, ES)

*Joint debate on private international law (Hague Conference)

*Accession of the EC to the Hague Conference on private International Law - recommendation by Diana WALLIS (ALDE, UK)

*Involvement of the European Parliament in the work of the Hague conference following the accession of the Community - oral question

Council of Ministers

COREPER II

COREPER I

*Moving Forward Together: EU Conference on Partnerships between Stakeholders at Frontline level Responding to Drug Problems

*IPR at the Crossroads Conference

European Commission

Travel and visits

* Visit by Mr Frattini to Franco-German Centre for Police and Customs Co-operation (Kehl)

* Mrs Reding in Poland (06-07): visit to Jagiellonian University (Krakow); speech on "The Revolution of the Information Society and its significance for the social and economic development of Europe" at the Economic Forum of Young Leaders (Krynica); meeting with representatives of the information platform and of the Polish government (6/9); speech before plenary on "Competitiveness in the...