CLDR/12/3

Bruxelles, le 20 janvier 2012

CALENDRIER du 23 au 29 janvier 2012

(Susceptible de modifications en cours de semaine)

Activités des Institutions Déplacements et visites

Lundi 23 janvier Agriculture and Fisheries Council Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO delivers a speech at the 50th anniversary of CAP (Common Agriculture Policy) (Brussels) Foreign Affairs Council M. José Manuel Durão BARROSO et M. László ANDOR Eurogroup rencontrent les partenaires sociaux Mr presents the Animal Mr receives a delegation from the Union of Greek Welfare Strategy to the Council Ship owners (Brussels) Mr Siim KALLAS meets Mr Vladimir YAKUNIN, CEO of Russian Railways (Brussels) Mr delivers the opening speech at the Conference "L'uscita dalla crisi: crescita e imprese: competitività, occupazione, PMI e territorio" (Stresa) Mr Antonio TAJANI delivers the opening speech at the Pirelli Conference "Driving sustainability: A safe road to the future" (Milan) Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the event "SBALombardiaLab: Il laboratorio per lo small business act lombardo incontra gli imprenditori sul territorio" (Milan) Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the working table “I soldi di Bruxelles. L’interesse italiano" in ISPI – Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Milan) Mr Janez POTOČNIK receives Mr Dardan GASHI, Minister of Environment of the Rep. of Kosovo Mr receives Mr Bill GATES, co-founder and co- chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mr is in London. He gives a keynote address on "Financial regulation – a review of 2011 and a forward look to 2012", at an event organised by the City of London Corporation in the Guildhall. He meets Mr George OSBORNE, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr Mark HOBAN, Financial Secretary to the Treasury Ms receives Mr François BILTGEN, Minister of Higher Education and Research of Mr John DALLI receives members of the German Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Mr Bill GATES, Chairman of Microsoft M. reçoit M. Slawomir NOWA le Ministre polonais des transports de la construction et de l'économie maritime Ms receives the Union of Greek Ship owners Ms Connie HEDEGAARD receives members of the International Association for Public Transport (UITP) Mr Štefan FÜLE receives Ms Teuta ARIFI, Deputy Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Mr Nikola POPOSKI, Foreign Minister Mr Štefan FÜLE participates in the Stabilisation and Association Council for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM participates in an informal Round Table on Smart Borders organized by the Lisbon Council (Brussels) Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receives Mr Nikola POPOSKI, MFA of Macedonia Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receives a delegation from Amnesty International Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ meets with Ms Laimdota STRAUJUMA, Latvian Minister for Agriculture Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ at the launching event of the 50th anniversary of the Common Agriculture Policy Mardi 24 janvier Meeting of Economic and Financial Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Bill GATES, Affairs Council founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Ms Androulla VASSILIOU delivers a Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO delivers a speech at the 'Global keynote speech at the EESC Conference: launch of Hiriko driving mobility' (Brussels) "The Economic Crisis, Education and the Labour Market" (99 rue Belliard, Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr , Brussels) President of Ms attends to the Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Victor ORBAN, Commemorative Ceremony On the Prime Minister of Hungary International Holocaust Remembrance Ms travels to Israel and to the occupied Day (EP) Palestinian territory (24-26/1) M. László ANDOR delivers a keynote Ms receives Mr Yuli EDELSTEIN, Israeli Minister speech at Experts Conference on the of Public Affairs and the Diaspora fateful start of EY2012 (EP) Mr Siim KALLAS receives a delegation from the European Road M. László ANDOR attends the Holocaust Haulers Association (UETR) Remembrance Day Ceremony (EP) Ms receives Mr Jon LEIBOWITZ, Chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission Ms Neelie KROES delivers Opening speech of W3C Standardisation meeting on "do-not-track" technologies in the field of online privacy (Brussels) Ms Neelie KROES attends Intellectual Property Forum, European Parliament Brussels; delivers speech (12.30) Ms Neelie KROES presents 2012 Commission Work Programme to Dutch Parliament (Tweede Kamer) (The Hague) Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the EPP-IMCO dinner in order to celebrate the Mid-Term of the EP legislature (Brussels) Mr Andris PIEBALGS delivers a speech at the OCT-EU forum (The Hotel, Brussels) M. Michel BARNIER reçoit M. Werner HOYER, Président de la Banque Européenne d'Investissements M. Michel BARNIER reçoit M. Nikola POPOSKI, Ministre des affaires étrangères Macédonien Ms Androulla VASSILIOU receives a delegation of the Union of Greek Shipowners Ms Androulla VASSILIOU meets with American Chamber of

2 Commerce to the EU (Brussels) Ms Androulla VASSILIOU attends the Board of Trustees' meeting of the European House of History Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA receives Mrs Marie-Luce PENCHARD, French Overseas Minister Mr John DALLI receives Ms Laimdota STRAUJUMA, Latvian Minister of Agriculture Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN delivers opening address at ERAC Mutual Learning Seminar 2012 (Brussels) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN receives Professor Donald B. DINGWELL, Secretary-General of the ERC Ms addresses the Fish summit (London) Ms Maria DAMANAKI receives representatives of the Greek Ship owners Association Mr Günther OETTINGER receives Mr Omar KETTANEH, Chairman of the Palestinian Energy Authority Mr Günther OETTINGER receives Mr Werner HOYER, the President of the Mr meets Mr , Minister President of Bavaria, Mr , Bavarian Minister for Economy, and Ms Emilia MUELLER, Bavarian Minister for European Affairs (Munich) Ms Connie HEDEGAARD meets with Mr Jarmo TANHUA, President & CEO of TVO and Mr Lauri VIRKKUNEN, President & CEO of PVO Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM receives the Board of Centre for European Studies at Lund's University Mercredi 25 janvier Réunion de la Commission Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO attends the New Year's reception of the Royal Palace (Brussels) Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO hosts the New Year's reception of the Mr Siim KALLAS speaks at the Driving Fuel Efficiency in Europe's Road Freight Transport Symposium (Brussels) Mr Siim KALLAS attends the Airports Council International Europe (ACI) Board Meeting (Brussels) Mr Siim KALLAS receives a delegation from The Association of European Vehicle Logistics (ECG) Mr Antonio TAJANI meets Staffan Nilsson, President of the EESC- European Economic and Social Committee (Brussels) Mr Janez POTOČNIK receives Mr Corrado CLINI, Italian Minister for Environment Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mr Jean STEPHENNE, Chairman and President of GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Ms Sally ETHELSTON, Director, Communications and Advocacy, PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) Mr Andris PIEBALGS receives Mrs Ingrid FISKAAN, Norvegian State Secretary for development Ms Maria DAMANAKI receives Mr Steingrímur J. SIGFÚSSON, Icelandic Minister for Economic Affairs and for Fisheries and Agriculture Ms Kristalina GEORGIEVA receives Mr Guillaume DE NASSAU, Grand-Duc Héritier du Luxembourg

3 Mr Günther OETTINGER delivers a keynote speech at the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) conference on Infrastructure and Energy Efficiency Ms Connie HEDEGAARD delivers a speech at the workshop on "The Negotiations on Climate Change after Durban and in the Perspective of Rio+20" (Confrontations Europe, Brussels) Mr Štefan FÜLE receives Mr Steingrímur J. SIGFUSSON, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture of Iceland Mr Štefan FÜLE receives Mr Jean-Paul PHILIPPOT, President of the European Broadcasting Union Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ receives Mr Steingrímur J. SIGFÚSSON, Icelandic Minister for Icelandic Minister for Economic Affairs and for Fisheries and Agriculture Jeudi 26 janvier World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Rosen Switzerland (26-28/1). Commissioners PLEVNELIEV, President of Bulgaria participating: Ms Viviane REDING, Mr Joaquín ALMUNIA, Ms Neelie KROES, Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the High Level Conference EU- Mr Antonio TAJANI, Mr , Mr Africa Partnership on Raw Materials (Brussels) Michel BARNIER, Mr , Mr Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ hosts Conference "Warming up for the Mr John DALLI, Mr Günther OETTINGER Citizens' Initiative" in Charlemagne building in Brussels. The Vice- and Ms Connie HEDEGAARD President and Mr Nicolai WAMMEN the Danish Minister of Informal meeting of Ministers for Justice European Affairs, will both make introductory speeches. and Home Affairs (26-27/1, Copenhagen) Mr Andris PIEBALGS participates to the "Translating Mineral Mr Štefan FÜLE meets the Political Resource Wealth into Real Development for Africa" Conference Committee of the Parliamentary (Hotel Metropole, Brussels) Assembly of the Union for the Ms Androulla VASSILIOU meets with a delegation of the European Mediterranean (EP, Brussels) Festivals Association (EFA) Mr John DALLI attends the World Economic Forum and meets Mr Alain BERSET, Swiss Minister of Health, and representatives of various pharmaceutical companies, (Davos) M. Janusz LEWANDOWSKI reçoit Mme Bernadette SEGOL, Secrétaire générale de la Confédération européenne des syndicats Ms Kristalina GEORGIEVA receives Mr Rossen PLEVNELIEV, President of Bulgaria Mr Johannes HAHN attends the Inter-ministerial Committee for the Absorption of the European Funds and meets Mr Traian BASESCU, President of Romania, Mr , Prime Minister of Romania, and Mr , Romanian Minister of European Affairs (Bucharest) Mr László ANDOR visits Bavaria: meets with Ms Christine HADERTHAUER, the Bavarian Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Family and Women and with Ms Emilia MÜLLER, Minister for European and Federal Affairs; with Mr Michael KERKLOH, Chairman of the Management Board of Flughafen München GmbH; visits Audi AG in Ingolstadt; visits a ESF project for long- term unemployed disabled workers in Regensburg; and delivers a speech at the “Südost-Institut” of the University of Regensburg Vendredi 27 janvier Mr José Manuel Durão BARROSO receives Mr Elio DI RUPO, Prime Minister of Belgium Mr Siim KALLAS visits : attends the European Affairs Committee of the Riikikogu, meets Mr Toomas Henrik ILVES, Estonian President Mr Antonio TAJANI participates in the GALILEO APPLICATION CONGRESS PRAGUE 2012 (Prague) Ms Androulla VASSILIOU meets with the European Association of

4 Universities (EUA) Council meeting (Brussels) Ms Androulla VASSILIOU attends the Annual meeting of the Association "Femmes d'Europe" and presentation of projects (Berlaymont Press Room, Brussels) Mr Algirdas ŠEMETA meets with the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise at Business Europe (Brussels) Ms Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN addresses the Council of the European Association of Universities (EUA) (Brussels) Ms Maria DAMANAKI meets with Mr Dimitris HALKIOTIS, Greek Secretary General for the Aegean and for Insular Policy (Athens) Mr Štefan FÜLE receives the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum Mr Štefan FÜLE receives Ms Patricia FLOR, Special Envoy for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia of the German Foreign Office Ms Cecilia MALMSTRÖM on mission in Skåne, Sweden: delivers a speech at the Association of Foreign Affairs in Lund Mr Dacian CIOLOŞ in Italy: speech at the Opening of the new Academic Year of the University of Gastronomic Science (Slow Food, Milano) Samedi 28 janvier

Dimanche 29 janvier

Prévisions du mois de janvier 2012 30/1 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) 31/1 Meeting of General Affairs Council (GAC)

Prévisions du mois de février 2012 1-3/2 Informal meeting of Ministers for Competitiveness (COMPET) in Copenhagen 1-2/2 European Parliament Mini Plenary 10/2 Meeting of Education, Youth, Culture and Sport (EYCS) 13-16/2 European Parliament Plenary (Strasbourg) 14/2 Meeting of Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE Energy) 17/2 Meeting in the Council for Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (EPSCO) 20-21/2 Meeting of Competitiveness Council (COMPET) 20/2 Eurogroup 21/2 Meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) 23/2 Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI-FISH) 27/2 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) 28/2 Meeting of General Affairs Council (GAC)

Prévisions du mois de mars 2012 1-2/3 Meeting of the European Council 8-9/3 Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) 9/3 Meeting of Environment Council (ENVI)

5 9-10/3 Gymnich - Informal meeting of Ministers for Foreign Affairs (FAC) in Copenhagen 12-15/3 European Parliament Plenary in Strasbourg 12/3 Eurogroup 13/3 Meeting of Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) 16/3 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Council (FAC trade) 19-20/3 Meeting of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRI-FISH) 22-23/3 Meeting of Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council (TTE) 22/3 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Council (FAC Defence) 23/3 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) 26/3 Meeting of General Affairs Council (GAC) 28-29/3 European Parliament Mini Plenary 30-31/3 Informal meeting of Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) in Copenhagen

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