After an eventful week in Strasbourg, Amelia is back in Brussels for a week of committee meetings. This is her schedule:

Monday

12:30-13 Meeting with NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers Int'l

18:30-20:30 Huawei Summer Cocktail

Tuesday

14-14:30 Meeting of the shadow rapporteurs in the ITRE committee on the Data Protection Regulation

Wednesday

An important week ahead at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, with the vote on ACTA being scheduled for Wednesday, 4th of July. During her time in Strasbourg, these are Amelia's scheduled meetings:

Monday

15-15:30 Interview with French radio station on the European Pirate movement

16-17 Greens/EFA group meeting

Tuesday

This week, a visitors group from the Young Pirates Germany will be coming to Brussels to visit the institutions. These are Amelia's scheduled meetings for the week.

Monday

13-13:30 Interview with researcher from the University of Kansas

Tuesday

10-11 Meeting with representative of Hyundai Motor Group

12-13 Workgroup meeting on the Multiannual Financial Framework

14-15 Meeting of shadow rapporteurs on the Data Protection Directive

An important week of committee meetings is starting in Brussels, with the Avaaz petition Act on ACTA being presented in the PETI committee on tuesday and the vote on ACTA in the INTA committee on thursday. These are Amelia's meetings this week.

Monday

10:30-11:30 Meeting with representative of The International Office for Human Rights - Action on Colombia (OIDHACO)

12-13 Meeting with representative of Adobe

13-13:30 Meeting with representative of AT&T

While part of Amelia's work in the past week was explaining to her fellow MEPs the difference between infrastructure protection and intellectual property rights, I had the pleasure of learning about some of the European Parliament's unique infrastructure challenges first hand by accompanying Amelia to Strasbourg for the plenary week.

On Monday, June 18, along with her colleague

During the upcoming plenary week in Strasbourg, Amelia will attend the following meetings:

Monday

15:30-16 Meeting with MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht on Critical Infrastructure Protection

16-18 Greens/EFA Group meeting

Tuesday

9:15-9:45 Interview with greenyourope.eu blogger

15-17 Internet Core Group meeting

This is a list of Amelia's meetings in the coming week:

Monday

13-13:30 Interview with Europaportalen

14-15 Meeting of the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula (DKOR)

15-17 Committee on Budgetary Control: Appointment of two Members of the European Court of Auditors: hearing of the candidates for membership

Tuesday

8:30-9 Breakfast Meeting at Sweden's permanent representation to the European Union: Department of Legal and Home Affairs

On Tuesday, May 29, LIBE rapporteur Jan Philipp Albrecht, MEP of the Greens/EFA group, hosted a debate on the proposed Data Protection Regulation (downloadable here).

The EP's committees are meeting in Brussels this week. Among other issues, the committees ITRE, LIBE and JURI will be voting on their opinions regarding ACTA. This is Amelia's schedule for the week:

Tuesday

15-17 Meeting at the Swedish representation to the European Union with, among others, the Swedish minister on EU affairs Birgitta Ohlsson

18-19:30 Debate on ACTA at the Institut d'études européennes of the ULB university (Brussels)

Wednesday