WEEK FROM 12 TO 18 MARCH.

Monday 12 March

European Parliament

Plenary session

17:00-23:00

+ Resumption of part-session and order of business

+ Social services of general interest in the EU - Debate on report by Joel Hasse Ferreira (PES, PT)

+ Corporate social responsibility - Debate on report by Richard Howitt (PES, UK)

+ Equality roadmap - Debate on report by Amalia Sartori (EPP-ED, IT)

+ Collective cross-border management of copyright and related rights for legitimate online music services - Debate on report by Katalin Levai (PES, HU)

+ (***I) Prudential assessment of acquisitions and increase of shareholdings - Debate on report by Wolf Klinz (ALDE, DE)

+ Reform of EU trade policy instruments - Oral question towards the Commission

+ Illegal hunt of birds in Malta - Oral question towards the Commission

+ One share, one vote: proportionality between ownership and control of listed European companies - Oral question towards the Commission

The President's diary

+ 14:30-15:40 Commemoration event of the Third European Day for Terror Victims

Parliamentary committees

Committee on Foreign Affairs

+ The future of Kosovo and the role of the EU - Vote on report by Joost Lagendijk (Greens/EFA, NL)

Committee on Budgets

+ Community participation in the capital increase of the European Investment Fund - Vote on report by Esko Seppanen (GUE/NGL, FI)

+ 2008 budget guidelines - other sections - Vote on report by Ville Itala (EPP-ED, FI)

+ The future of the European Union's own resources - Vote on report by Alain Lamassoure (EPP-ED, FR)

Other events

European Day for the Victims on Terrorism

Parliament will mark the European Day for the Victims on Terrorism with a group of 500 students invited from schools in Strasbourg, London, Madrid and Ortenau Kreis (Germany). In the morning, the students will meet in Parliament's Strasbourg chamber to take part in a series of working group sessions on issues such as fighting terrorism at European level, how the EU should tackle today's worldwide challenges, the advantages of living in a multicultural society and how to help integrate migrants.

From 14:30 to 15:40, European Parliament President Hans-Gert Pottering will hold a formal session with the students in the chamber. Speakers will include a representative of the EU's German Presidency, Employment and Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir Spidla, Civil Liberties Committee Chairman Jean-Marie Cavada (ALDE, FR), and Culture Committee Chairman Nikolaos Sifunakis (PES, EL). A one-minute silence will be observed at 15:00.

The 11 March European memorial day for victims of terrorism was initiated by Parliament in the aftermath of the March 2004 Madrid train bombings.

Contact: Maria Andres Marin, Press Service, libe-press@europarl.europa.eu, (32-2) 28 44299 (BXL)

Council of Ministers

Conference: Socio-Economic Analyses in the Framework of REACH

ESDC Module High Level Course

Ministerial Conference: Partnership and Responsibility - Together Against HIV/AIDS

Informal Meeting of EU Ministers for Development Cooperation and Informal ACP-EU Dialogue on Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)

Conference of Sports Ministers

More: The Informal Meeting of Sports Ministers will be held on 12 and 13 March 2007 as part of the German EU Council Presidency. The meeting in Stuttgart is one of four ministerial conferences to be held under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Federal Interior Minister Dr Wolfgang Schauble, who is also responsible for sport, will discuss various aspects of sport with his fellow ministers from the 26 other EU Member States and the European Commission.

For further information please go to www.bmi.bund.de

European Commission

Travel and visits

+ Mr Barroso to meet Mr Michel Platini, UEFA President

+ Mrs Reding to meet the Brussels Round Table on the Strategic Perspectives of the ICT Sector (the CEOs/MDs of British Telecom; Telecom Italia, Philips, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent)

+ Mr Potocnik in Lyon, France: Participation at BioVision 2007 with a Keynote speech at the "Society & Politics" plenary session and a Keynote speech at the opening plenary session of the partnering event Biosquare

+ Mr Michel in Bonn: Conference "Africa/EU Policy" (German presidency)

+ Mr Piebalgs to deliver a speech to Energy Stakeholders at the Institute of European Affairs in Dublin

+ Mrs Kuneva to meet the 'Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue' (TACD) - (Bxl, Hotel Renaissance)

Economic and Social Committee

12 March, Brussels, EESC

+ 1st meeting of the EU-Croatia Civil Society Follow-up Committee

Committee of the Regions

12-16 March, CoR, Brussels

+ Study case: Brasov County, Romania: Models of Community Growth in New EU Member States

Conference: 15/03/07 14.30 - 18.00 (Room JDE 52)

Photo Exhibition: 12 - 16 March (5 th floor)

The Agency for Sustainable Development of the Brasov County, Romania (ADDJB) in partnership with the Committee of the Regions, Brasov County Council and the National Union of County Councils of Romania (UNCJR) are organizing a conference on Models of Community Growth in New E.U. Member States with focus on the study case of Brasov County.

The event leaves from the shared assessment that the European Community is a continuous source of learning and understanding of its members' diversity of practices and models. Therefore, the conference offers its guests (political decision makers, entrepreneurs, other stakeholders) with the opportunity to debate on two main issues: the Multicultural character of the EU and the European Citizenship and the Sustainable development and tourism. The debate will start from the example of Brasov County as one of Romania's richest counties in terms of multiculturalism, having also a strong development in the field of tourism and being internationally recognized as "the winter capital of Romania".

ADDJB is the first inter-community association to have been created in Romania at county level. As one of the most significant sources of development in the Brasov County , the agency coordinates the County's Sustainable Development Strategy 2007-2013 and focuses its expertise in order to create sustainable development in all fields and for the benefit of all the stakeholders.

Organiser: for Sustainable Development of the Brasov County , Romania

For further information on the conference, please contact:

Event coordinator - Cornelia Limantovschi

Email : cornelia.limantovschi@addjb.ro

Tel: + 40.268.47.05.05

http://www.addjb.ro/

Tuesday 13 March

European Parliament

Plenary session

09:00-11:50; 21:00-24:00

+ Annual political strategy 2008 - Commission statement

+ EU-USA Air Services Agreement - Commission statement

+ Biotechnology: prospects and challenges for agriculture in Europe - Debate on report by Kyosti Virrankoski (ALDE, FI)

+ (*) Marketing of the meat of bovine animals aged 12 months or less - Debate on report by Bernadette Bourzai (PES, FR)

+ (*) Ratification of the ILO's 2006 Consolidated Maritime Labour Convention - Debate on report by Mary Lou Mcdonald (GUE/NGL, IE)

+ (***I) European Aviation Safety Agency - Debate on report by Jorg Leichtfried (PES, AT)

12:00-13:00

+ (*) Financing of interventions by the EAGGF, Guarantee Section - Report by Neil Parish (EPP-ED, UK)

+ (*) Drinking milk produced in Estonia - Report by Neil Parish (EPP-ED, UK)

+ (*) Repeal of Regulation (EC) No 2040/2000 on budgetary discipline - Debate on report by Janusz Lewandowski (EPP-ED, PL)

15:00-17:00

+ Non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament - Council and Commission statements

+ Childcare - Council and Commission statements

17:00-17:30

+ Consumer policy strategy 2007-2013 - Commission statement

17:30-19:00

+ Question time to the Commission

The President's diary

+ 15:00 Meeting with Kole Berisha, Speaker of the Kosovo Assembly

+ 18:00 Meeting with P. Nikiforos Diamandorous, EU Ombudsman

Council of Ministers

EP-Plenary with Minister of State Gloser

EU-Troika - Indonesia

Political and Security Committee (PSC)

European Commission

Travel and visits

+ 20.00: Mr Barroso, Mr Kallas, Mr Figel' to attend football match 'Europe XI vs Manchester United' (Old Trafford, Manchester)

+ Mr Piebalgs in Copenhagen: he will deliver a speech at the conference "The New Danish Energy Approach", participate in the working lunch with Mr Flemming Hansen, Minister for Transport and Energy of Denmark and visit Geothermic Plant (a DONG Energy Project)

Court of Justice

Grand Chamber

09.30

+ Judgment C-524/04 Test Claimants in the Thin Cap Group Litigation

Interpretation of Articles 43, 49 and 56 EC - National tax legislation - Ability of a company established on national territory to deduct for tax purposes interest paid on a loan granted by its parent company - Situation differing according to the State where the parent company established

+ Judgment C-29/05 P Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market v Kaul

Appeal brought against the judgment of the Court of First Instance (Fourth Chamber) of 10 November 2004 in Case T-164/02 Kaul GmbH v OHIM, by which the Court of First Instance annulled Decision R 782/2000-3 of the Third Board of Appeal of OHIM of 4 March 2002 relating to opposition proceedings between Kaul GmbH and Bayer AG - Examination of the opposition - Examination of the facts by the Board of Appeal - Scope - Articles 43(2) and 74(2) of Council Regulation No 40/94 of 20 December 1993 on the Community trade mark (OJ 1994 L 11, p. 1)

+ Judgment C-432/05 Unibet

Reference for a preliminary ruling - Hogsta domstolen - Interpretation of Article 49 EC - National legislation not providing for an action challenging the non-conformity of a legislative provision with higher-ranking legal rules - Right of individuals to effective judicial protection of rights which they derive from the Community legal order

+ Hearing C-77/05 United Kingdom v Council

Annulment of Council Regulation (EC) No 2007/2004 of 26 October 2004 establishing a European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European...