Monday 5 May

EU Presidency

• Informal Meeting of Transport Ministers (Brdo) - EU Presidency
  
• 17th Joint Meeting of the Competent Authorities for the Implementation of Directive 67/548/EEC and Regulation 793/93/EC (Brdo) - EU Presidency
  
• eHealth Conference (Portoroz) - EU Presidency
  

European Parliament

• Development Committee: discussion with UN Special Advisor Professor Jeffrey Sachs on rising food prices and their impact on developing countries - EP committee meetings
  

European Commission

• Traditional meeting with religious leaders (Brussels) - The Commission, Parliament and the Council bring together the three monotheistic religions to discuss climate change and reconciliation - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue website
• Forum on a renewed social agenda: Opportunities, access and solidarity in 21st century Europe - the Commission is holding this major conference to discuss how Europe should respond to its current social challenges in an era of globalisation and create discussion on how Europe should renew its social agenda - registration
  

Tuesday 6 May

EU Presidency

• European Patent Forum and European Inventor of the Year 2008 (Ljubljana) - EU Presidency
  
• EU Troika - Turkey (Turkey)
• Meeting of the XXXIX COSAC (Brdo) - conference information
  

European Parliament

• Environment Committee: second reading vote on legislation on food additives and water quality standards.
• Industry Committee: first reading vote on reform of competition rules for the electricity market.
• Industry Committee - Internal Market Committee: examination of draft reports on the telecoms package.
• Development and Women's Rights Committees: hearing on how women are involved in and affected by warfare.
• Internal Market Committee: vote on legislation to protect consumers who buy into time-share holiday schemes.
• Human Rights Sub-Committee: meeting with the Information and International Relations minister in the Dalai Lama's exiled Tibetan government.

European Commission

• Presentation of the 2009 Preliminary Draft Budget (PDB) - the Commission to present its EU budget proposal for 2009, the first major step in the EU's annual budget procedure - Financial Programming and Budget website
• Conference on the Promotion of the Rights of Energy Consumers - the aim of the conference is to improve the implementation of energy consumer rights and the information to consumers - live broadcast of event
  

EU related events

• Eastern Baltic Aquaculture Conference (Riga) - details
  

Wednesday 7 May

EU Presidency

• Visit by enlargement counsellors, Working party on enlargement and countries negotiating accession to the EU (Piran) - EU Presidency
  
• Conference: "The European Union and South East Europe: A Common Vision for Connecting People" (Belgrade) - EU Presidency
  

European Parliament

• EP plenary part-session (Brussels) - MEPs will debate and vote on their annual report on human rights in the world, the rules governing lobbying in the EU institutions, and sports policy. They will also mark ten years since the decision to adopt the euro - Wednesday draft agenda

European Commission

• Regular Convergence Report on euro adoption - euro area enlargement
• EMU @10: Successes and challenges after 10 years of Economic and Monetary Union: Commission to present a Communication that will take stock of the many successes of the euro but will also look at improving the functioning of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) bearing in mind the pressing challenges of globalisation, population ageing and climate change - EMU@10 website (DG ECFIN)

EU related events

• 3rd ISFE Conference - Virtual worlds meet real world: a perspective from the European videogame industry (Brussels) - details
  

Thursday 8 May

European Parliament

• EP plenary part-session (Brussels) - Thursday draft agenda

European Commission

• Consumers - Mid-term report on the enforcement phase of the Airline Ticket Sweep Investigation - Airline Sweep - the Commission's work on enforcement of consumer legislation

Friday 9 May

European Commission

• Europe Day: more than 60,000 students coming from around 500 schools, from 13 Member States (France, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, United Kingdom, Latvia, Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Malta and Cyprus), will discuss the role of the EU in the world and development. "European Ambassadors", working for the Commission in external cooperation, will lead these debates with the 14 to 18 year olds - 9 May - Europe Day in Schools initiative