WEEK FROM 19 TO 25 NOVEMBER.

Monday 19 November

European Parliament

[T]Parliamentary committees

Joint meeting with the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on International Trade and the Committee on Development

* Meeting with the President of the World Bank, Robert B. ZOELLICK

Committee on Foreign Affairs

* Discussion with Francese VENDRELL, EU Special Representative for Afghanistan (In camera with the participation of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan)

Committee on Culture and Education

* Structured dialogue with Viviane REDING, Commissioner for Information Society and Media

* Adult learning: It is never too late to learn - Vote on report by Doris PACK (EPP-ED, DE)

* Discussion with Michaela ADELBERGER, Managing Director of Eurozine, network of European cultural journals

Committee on Legal Affairs

* Request for defence of the parliamentary immunity of Renato Brunetta - Hearing and (possible) adoption of report by Aloyzas SAKALAS (PES, LT)

Delegations

ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly - 14h Session from 17 to 22 November 2007

The EU-Africa strategy, the Lisbon EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon in December, and developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, will be debated at the 14th session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA), in Kigali (Rwanda) from 17 to 22 November 2007. The ACP-EU JPA brings together 78 MEPs and 78 parliamentarians from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states. The inaugural session, at the Serena Conference Centre on Monday 19 November 2007, will be followed by a press conference at 12.30h.

The Assembly will debate and vote on three reports on:

- Impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the African, Caribbean and Pacific States - Astrid Lulling (EPP-ED, LU) et Timothy Harris (St Kitts & Nevis);

- Access to healthcare and medicines, with a particular focus on neglected diseases - John Bowis (EPP-ED, UK) and Martin Magga (Solomon Islands;

- Elections and electoral processes in ACP and EU countries - Miguel Angel Martinez Martinez (PES, ES) et Betty Amongi (Uganda)

Contact: Thomas DUDRAP, Press Service, deve-press@europarl.europa.eu, (33-3) 881 72850 (BXL), (32) 0498.98.32.84

Other events

EP Citizen's Forum on the Future of Europe

As part of its contribution to the debate on the future of Europe, the European Parliament is organising a series of citizens' forums to enable members of the public directly to enter the debate on the main issues. This forum, in Rome, will focus on the New Treaty.

Participants: Enrique BARON CRESPO (PES, ES) and Riccardo VENTRE (EPP-ED, IT)

Contact: Manuela CONTE, Information Office, Rome, +39 335 248298, manuela.conte@europarl.europa.eu

International Conference on "Beyond GDP"

Measuring progress, wealth and the well-being of nations

Measuring progress, wealth and the well-being of nations are the topics that will be discussed at a high-level conference on 19-20 November organised by the Euorpean Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the Club of Rome and WWF. The aim of the conference is to move towards a better appreciation of what progress, wealth and well-being are, decide how they should be measured, and highlight the benefits of integrating them in decision-making. The Beyond GDP conference will be opened on the first day by the President of the Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso and on the second day by Hans-Gert Pottering, President of the European Parliament.

Over the last two decades a number of alternative indicators have been designed to complement GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in measuring progress and the health of the economy. They introduce aspects not covered by GDP such as the long-term accumulation of wealth (natural, economic and social), the levels of life expectancy, literacy, and education and the negative impact of pollution and resource degradation.

The Beyond GDP conference is the launching pad for the political debate on the need to move beyond the principles of Gross Domestic Product. It will be held at the European Parliament building in Brussels. Some 600 participants from the economic, social and environmental sectors will be attending. Speakers include HE Chief Emeka Anyaoku (President, WWF), Ashok Khosla (Co-President, Club of Rome), and Pier Carlo Padoan (Deputy Secretary General, OECD).

An informal press briefing and reception for the media to meet key speakers will take place at 14.30 on Monday 19 November outside the Press Bar in the EP Press Centre, ground floor Paul-Henri Spaak Building.

Contact: Ralph PINE, Press Service, ralph.pine@europarl.europa.eu, (32-2) 28 42941 (BXL), (32) 0498.98.35.87

Council of Ministers

First Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Meeting on Migration

Albufeira, Algarbe, Hotel Real Santa Eulalia

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) - Including Defense and Development Ministers

Troika with OSCE at margins of GAERC

Association Council EU/Tunisia at margins of GAERC

Pharmaceutical Innovation: the need for a new R&D strategy in the European Union

Meeting of National Managers Employment Services EURES

Closing Conference for the European Year of Equality of Opportunities for All

1st Meeting of the Business Forum for Multilingualism

Beyond GDP Conference

4th High Level Meeting on Governance and the EU

High Level Conference on Nanotechnologies

Congress "Families, life styles and drugs - reaching families through prevention"

General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) - Including Defense and Development Ministers

Pharmaceutical Innovation: the need for a new R&D strategy in the European Union

Meeting of National Managers Employment Services EURES

Closing Conference for the European Year of Equality of Opportunities for All

Beyond GDP Conference

4th High Level Meeting on Governance and the EU

High Level Conference on Nanotechnologies

Congress "Families, life styles and drugs - reaching families through prevention"

European Commission

Travel and visits

* Mr Jose Manuel Durao Barroso receives Mr Edmund Stoiber, Chairman of the High Level Expert Group on Administrative Burdens, followed by a VIP corner at 9.15 jointly with Mr Gunther VERHEUGEN

* Mr Jose Manuel Durao Barroso receives Mr Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank

* Mr Jan Figel' in Bratislava. Participation in the Erasmus 20th Anniversary Celebration; participation in the Board of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce; participation in a seminar on the Reformed Treaty

* Speech by Mrs Neelie Kroes at the Conference 'Fifty Years of the Treaty' organised by the IESE Business School, Barcelona

* Mr Leonard Orban in Lisbon. Participation in Business Forum. Meeting with Mrs Isabel Pires De Lima, Portuguese Minister of Culture, and speech at the seminar on "Technical Translation" (l'Instituto Franco-Portugues).

* Mr Gunter Verheugen attends the EU-Japan Conference on Better Regulation in Brussels

* Speech by Mr Janez Potocnik at the International Symposium on "Future Climate, Impacts and Responses - The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and EC Integrated Climate Research" (Borschette)

* Mr Janez Potocnik receives the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Bozidar Djelic

* Speech by Mr Laszlo Kovacs at the book presentation "Hungary and the Lisbon process" in Szeged, Hungary

* Mr Stavros Dimas receives Mr Jean-Louis Borloo, French Minister for the Environment

* Mr Stavros Dimas receives Mr Kimmo Tiilikainen, Finnish Minister for the Environment

* Mr Vladimir pidla in Lisbon: Mr Vladimir pidla speaks at the opening session of the Portuguese Presidency Closing Conference on the European Year of Equal Opportunities; gives a press conference at Diversity truck in front of the Cultural Center Belem; opening of the exhibition on Social policy posters (Circus theme) at EU-funded Youth center Chapito

* Mr Jacques Barrot participates in the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, Gijon, Spain

* Mrs Danuta Hubner receives the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Bozidar Djelic

* Mrs Viviane Reding receives Mr Reinaldo Rodriguez Illera, President of the Spanish CMT (Comision del Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones )

* Speech by Mrs Viviane Reding "Towards a European Software Strategy?" at the presentation of "The Truffle 100: The ranking of the top 100 European Software leaders"

* Ms Benita Ferrero-Waldner at EU-Tunisia Association Council; meets with Tunisian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Abdelwaheb Abdallah

* Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner meets with Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Hoshyar Mahmud Zebari

* Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner meets with President of the World Bank, Mr Robert Zoellick

* Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner meets with Secretary General of the OSCE Mr Marc Perrin de Brichambaut

* Mrs Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Joaquin Almunia to sign Memorandum of Understanding with the President of the IADB, Luis Alberto Moreno

* Mr Joaquin Almunia receives Mr Bozidar Djelic, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia

* Mr Joaquin Almunia at the signing of the "Memorandum of Understanding" with Mr Luis Alberto Moreno, President of the Inter-American Development Bank

* Speech by Mr Joaquin Almunia at the conference "Beyond GDP: measuring progress, true wealth and the wellbeing of nations"

* Mr Joaquin Almunia receives a delegation from the "Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation"

* Mrs Meglena Kuneva receives members of the top management of the Association of Luxury Brands

* Participation of Mr Franco Frattini in the EUROMED ministerial meeting, Algarve

Court of Justice

Court of First Instance

First Chamber

15.00

* Hearing T-330/06 Novartis v OHMI - (BLUE SOFT)

Community trade mark - Annulment of the decision of the First Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) of 14 September 2006 in Case R 270/2006-1 dismissing the appeal against the examiner's decision refusing to register the word mark 'BLUE SOFT' in respect of goods in Class 9

Economic and Social Committee

* Public Hearing/Study Group meeting on BOTTLENECKS IN TRANSPORT in the context of the Portuguese...