COMMISSION EUROPEENNE

Bruxelles, le 28 septembre 2012

CALENDRIER du 1 au 7 octobre 2012

(Susceptible de modifications en cours de semaine)

Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

Lundi 1 octobre Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO attends the launch of Social Innovation prize Diogo Vasconcelos (Lisbon) Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA receives Mr Aivis RONIS, Minister of Transport of Latvia Mr receives a representation from the Natural & Bio Gas Association Mr Siim KALLAS receives Mr Trond KLEIVDAL, President, and Mr Sturla HENRIKSEN, Director – General, from the Norwegian Shipowners' Association Mr Janez POTOČNIK delivers a keynote speech at EEB (European Environmental Bureau) Annual Conference (Palais des Académies, Brussels) Mr Janez POTOČNIK receives Mr Achim STEINER, UNEP (U.N. Environment Programme) Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the U.N. Mr in Milan, Italy: meets with Mr Andrea RICCARDI, Development Cooperation Minister of Italy and participates at the International Cooperation Forum M. reçoit les représentants de l'Union mondiale des malvoyants et l'Union européenne des malvoyants Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA in Finland (1-2/10). On 1/10 Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA meets with Mr Antti HARTIKAINEN, Director General of Finnish Customs, at the Finnish-Russian border at Nuijamaa. On 2/10 Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA meets with Chair of the Grand Committee of the Parliament Ms Mia-Petra KUMPULA-NATRI, Minister of Finance Ms and Minister of Public Administration and Public Government Ms Henna VIRKKUNEN Mr visits the Carrefour Quality Lines and animal welfare project, Rhône-Alpes (France) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers keynote address at the 2nd European SME Convention (Brussels) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers keynote speech at the European Technology Platforms Workshop (Brussels) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Dame Janet FINCH, Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, School of Social Sciences in the University of

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Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

Manchester Mr in Slovenia (1/10) and Croatia (2/10): meeting with members of the National Assembly's Committee; meeting with State Secretary for European Affairs Mr Igor SENČAR (1/10); meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home, Foreign and European Policies Mr and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds Mr Branko GRČIĆ; meeting with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Ms Vesna PUSIĆ; meeting with Minister of Finance Mr Slavko LINIĆ (2/10) Ms participates at the opening of the academic year of Bulgarian Military Academy and at the European Citizen Award of 2012 ceremony (Sofia, Bulgaria) Mr Günther OETTINGER in Paris: meets with Ms Delphine BATHO, Minister for Environment and Energy Mr Johannes HAHN meets Mr Wilfried HASLAUER, Deputy Governor of the Austrian province of Salzburg (Salzburg) Ms in Denmark to attend the inauguration of TOPSIL new production plant (Copenhagen Cleantech Park, Frederikssund) and to attend the Danish Industry celebration of the 40 years anniversary of Danish EU membership (Danish Crown, Horsens) Mr Štefan FÜLE on official visit to Athens, Greece Mr László ANDOR delivers a speech at Third Age conference (Dublin, Ireland) Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ in Budapest (1-2/10): meeting with Mr György CZERVÁN, Hungarian Minister of State for Agricultural Economy; with Mr István JAKAB, Vice-President of the Hungarian Parliament and Mr Sándor FONT, Chairman of the Hungarian Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture; with Mr Viktor ORBÁN, Prime Minister of Hungary; visit of the Törley Cellar with Mr Sándor FAZEKAS, Hungarian Minister of Rural Development (1/10); speech at the 2012 Congress of European Farmers organised by COPA COGECA (2/10) Mardi 2 octobre Le Collège reçoit les Présidents des Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO delivers the opening Commissions parlementaires du speech at the 'Connecting Europe' Conference on the Parlement européen Connecting Europe Facility, organised by BEPA. Mr Siim KALLAS, Ms , Mr Günther OETTINGER and Mr Johannes HAHN also attend. (Brussels) Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO, Mr and Mr Štefan FÜLE receive the Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mr Hamadi JEBALI Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA participates at European Competition Day (Nicosia, Cyprus) Ms Neelie KROES delivers speech to ETNO FT 2012 summit (Brussels) Mr participates at Conference TECHITALY

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Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

2012 Boosting European Growth through Industrial Innovation (Brussels) Mr Janez POTOČNIK and Ms Connie HEDEGAARD participate in a meeting with representatives of "Conseil de Coopération Economique" (Berlaymont, Brussels) Mr Janez POTOČNIK receives ASG Brice LALONDE, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Coordinator of Rio +20 Mr Andris PIEBALGS in Vilnius, Lithuania: meets with Mr Audronis AŽUBALIS, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs; participates in a Ministerial Conference with Development Cooperation Ministers of the Baltic and Nordic Countries; meets with representatives of Baltic NGOs M. Michel BARNIER reçoit le Cercle de l'Industrie regroupant les Présidents de 30 grandes entreprises industrielles françaises Ms in Nicosia (2-5/10): 2/10 - participates in the Commemoration for Cyprus Independence Day (English School) and meets with the Cyprus Dyslexia Association (EU House); 3/10 - attends the Founding Assembly of the Cypriot NGO for Literacy (EU House); 4-5/10 - takes part at the Informal Education Council (Filoxenia Conference Centre) Mr John DALLI in Bucharest: meets Mr Victor PONTA, Prime Minister of Romania, and attends the WHO Conference “Action on multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis in Romania” Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers keynote address at Lisbon Council (Brussels) Ms receives Mr Henk BLEKER, Dutch Minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade Mr Günther OETTINGER receives representatives of the Danish Energy Association Mr Johannes HAHN receives Ms Marie-Guite DUFAY, President of the Franche-Comté Regional Council Mr Štefan FÜLE receives Mr Miodrag LEKIC, leader of the Democratic Front of Montenegro Mr Štefan FÜLE signs two financing agreements with Mr Riadh BETTAIEB, Minister of investment and international cooperation of Tunisia (Brussels) Mrs Cecilia MALMSTRÖM in Cyprus (2-3/10): participates in the EU-Russia Permanent Partnership Council (PPC) Mercredi 3 octobre College meeting Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO and Mr Andris PIEBALGS receive Mr Abdrabuh Mansour HADI, President of Yemen The College receives the Irish Government Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA participates at the Conference "Relaunching Europe - Our alternative vision for the future" (Brussels) Mr Antonio TAJANI delivers the closing speech at VIII

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Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

Meeting Cotec Europa (Madrid) Mr Andris PIEBALGS participates in a High Level Meeting with Mr Kandeh K. YUMKELLA, Director-General of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (Brussels) Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr Thomas THABANE, Prime Minister of Lesotho Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr Ramtane LAMAMRA, Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr Brice LALONDE, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Coordinator of Rio +20 Mr Michel BARNIER receives Mr Greg CLARK MP, new UK Financial Services Secretary to the Treasury Mr Michel BARNIER receives the UK House of Lords Committee Mr John DALLI holds a closing speech at the VET Week Conference "Economics of Animal Health: a price worth paying?" (Brussels) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Mr Fabrice BREGIER, CEO of Airbus SAS Ms Maria DAMANAKI opens the seminar on Future Fisheries (Norway House, Brussels) Mr László ANDOR delivers a speech on social enterprises at a conference organised by the Various Interests Group of the European Economic and Social Committee (Brussels) Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ receives Mr Mario CATANIA, Italian Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Jeudi 4 octobre Employment, Social Policy, Health Mrs receives Ms Mona Maria PIVNICERU, and Consumer Affairs Council Minister of Justice of Romania (EPSCO) (Luxembourg) Mrs Viviane REDING in Paris (4-5/10): 4/10 - meets with Informal Meeting of Education Ms Christiane TAUBIRA, Minister of Justice of France; Ministers (4-5/10, Nicosia) participates in IHT Panel discussion on Restoring European Competitiveness on the World Stage; 5/10 - delivers a speech at l’Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire du Conseil National des Barreaux; visits the Shoah Memorial Mr Siim KALLAS on official mission to Estonia (4-7/10): delivers a speech at the Helsinki – Tallinn Euregio 8th Forum on 5/10 Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the Assemblea Generale 2012 Unione Industriali (Pordenone, Italy) Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ delivers the opening speech at the ICT2012 Conference organised by DIGIT (Charlemagne building, Brussels) Mr Janez POTOČNIK, Mr Andris PIEBALGS and Ms Maria DAMANAKI receive Ms Julia MARTON-LEFEVRE, Director General of International Union for Conservation of Nature

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Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

(IUCN) Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr François-Xavier DE DONNEA, Board Member of the Africa Conservation Fund Mr Andris PIEBALGS participates in the signature of the Memorandum of Understanding EU - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr K.S. AHOOMEY-ZUNU, Prime Minister of Togo Mr Michel BARNIER in Brazil (4-7/10). He meets Mr Guido MANTEGA, Minister of State of Finance, Mr Luiz AWAZU PEREIRA, Deputy-Governor of the Central Bank of Brazil, Mr Roberto EGYDIO SETUBAL, Chairman of the Board of the Brazilian Banking Federation and European businessmen representatives of major European groups operating in Brazil. He participates in the seminar on "The Euro and the financial and banking reforms in the : Implications and Relevance for EU-Brazil Relations". Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA receives the Minister of Finance of the German State of Hessen, Mr Thomas SCHÄFER Mr John DALLI in Gastein (, 4-5/10): attends the European Health Forum, meets Mr Alois STOEGER, Austrian Health Minister, and meets Dr Gunther LEINER, President of the European Health Forum Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN in Dublin (4-5/10): 4/10 - visits the National Children's Research Centre; visits the Guinness Enterprise Centre: 5/10 - delivers opening speech at the Global Venture Capital Congress 2012 (GVCC) Mr Janusz LEWANDOWSKI delivers a speech at the 40th General Assembly of the CPMR (Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe) (Poland) Ms Maria DAMANAKI delivers a speech at the Arctic Futures Symposium organised by the International Polar Foundation (Committee of the Regions) Ms Maria DAMANAKI in Prague (4-5/10): meeting with Mr Petr BENDL, Czech Minister for Agriculture (4/10); visit of a freshwater aquaculture site (5/10) Ms Kristalina GEORGIEVA in Stockholm: meets with representatives of NGOs; meets with Ms Karin ENSTRÖM, Swedish Minister for Defence; meets with representatives of the Swedish Committee of Foreign Affairs; meets with Ms Helena LINDSTRÖM, Director-General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency Mr Johannes HAHN in Poland (4-5/10): meets Ms Elzbieta BIENKOWSKA, Minister of Regional Development, Mr Slawomir NOWAK, Minister of Transport, participates in the 40th Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions General Assembly and visits regional projects in the Podlaskie region and Warsaw

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Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

Vendredi 5 octobre Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO and Mr Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ participate in the Friends of Cohesion High level Meeting in Bratislava (Slovakia) Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO and Mr Štefan FÜLE participate in the 2nd Summit for Heads of State and Governments of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue (Malta) Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the Conference on Late Payment (Rome) Mt in Helsinki (5-6/10): speaks at seminar on financial and economic governance organised by the Finnish Foreign Policy Institute (5/10); delivers a keynote speech at the 65th Anniversary of the Central Association of Finnish Female Entrepreneurs at Hotel Presidentti (6/10) Mr Andris PIEBALGS in Berlin: participates in a round table on EC priorities in Multiannual Financial Framework negotiations organised by ONE Mr László ANDOR at Euroskills event "Competences are no contingency. The implementation of National Qualification Frameworks in different European countries and regions" (Spa, Belgium) Mrs Cecilia MALMSTRÖM in Sweden: delivers a speech at the Council of European Studies (REGU) at the University of Gothenburg Samedi 6 octobre

Dimanche 7 octobre Informal Ministerial Meeting on EU Integrated Maritime Policy (7-8/10, Nicosia)

Prévisions du mois d'octobre 2012 8/10 Informal Ministerial Meeting on EU Integrated Maritime Policy (Limassol) 8/10 Eurogroup (Luxembourg) 9/10 Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) (Luxembourg) 10-11/10 Competitiveness Council (COMPET) (Luxembourg) 15/10 Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) (Luxembourg) 16/10 General Affairs Council (GAC) (Luxembourg) 18/10 22-23/10 Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI-FISH) (Luxembourg) 22-23/10 and 25-26/10 Plenary Meeting (Strasbourg) 25/10 Environment Council (ENVI) (Luxembourg)

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25-26/10 Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) (Luxembourg) 29/10 Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council (TTE) (Luxembourg)

Prévisions du mois de novembre 2012 6/11 Informal Meeting of Ministers for Cohesion Policy (Nicosia) 7-8/11 European Parliament Mini Plenary (Brussels) 9/11 Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) (Budget) 12/11 Eurogroup 13/11 Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) 19-22/11 European Parliament Plenary Meeting (Strasbourg) 19/11 Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) 22-23/11 Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council (EYCS) 23/11 Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) (Trade) 26/11 General Affairs Council (GAC)

Prévisions du mois de décembre 2012 3/12 Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council (TTE) (Energy) 9/12 Eurogroup 4/12 Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) 4/12 Justice and Home Affairs Council (JHA) 6-7/12 Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) 6-7/12 European Parliament Plenary Meeting (Strasbourg) 10-11/12 Competitiveness Council (COMPET) 10-11/12 General Affairs Council (GAC) 13-14/12 European Council 17-18/12 Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI-FISH) 19/12 Environment Council (ENVI) 20-21/12 Transport, Telecoms and Energy Council (TTE) (Transport and Telecoms)

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