O Et område med frihed, sikkerhed og retfærdighed: Rådets vedtagelse af et direktiv om de­finition afhjælp til ulovlig indrejse, rejse samt ulovligt ophold (Æ punkt 1.4.10), en rammeafgø­relse om styrkelse af de strafferetlige rammer med henblik på bekæmpelse afhjælp til ulovlig ind­rejse og transit samt ulovligt ophold (Æ punkt 1.4.11), et handlingsprogram for tilbagesendelse af personer med ulovligt ophold (Æ punkt 1.4.6), en afgørelse om indførelse af en ordning for evaluering af de nationale retsregler om bekæmpelse af terrorisme og gennemførelsen heraf (Æ punkt 1.4.16) og en afgørelse om oprettelse af et europæisk netværk til beskyttelse af fremtræ­dende personer (Æ punkt 1.4.24).
D Economic and monetary policy: the Council adopts a decision on the existence of an exces­sive deficit in Portugal, accompanied by a recommendation on the corrective measures to be taken (—* point 1.3.7); the Commission adopts communications on strengthening the coordination of budgetary policies, on upgrading the quality of budgetary statistics (— > points 1.3.5 and 1.3.6) and on eurozone statistics (—* point 1.3.4). D Financial services: the Commission adopts a proposal for a directive on investment services and regulated markets (— > point 1.3.29). D Public procurement: Parliament and the Council adopt a regulation on the common procure­ment vocabulary (— > point 1.3.42). Π Employment and social policy: social dialogue summit (— > point 1.3.21). D Competition: the Council agrees on reform of the competition rules laid down in Articles 81 and 82 of the EC Treaty (—¥ point 1.3.46); the Commission adopts an updated State aid scoreboard for the candidate countries f— > point 1.3.54) and a regulation on State aid for employment (—¥ point 1.3.51). D Fisheries: the Commission adopts action plans to reduce discards offish (— > point 1.3.98) and to counter the social, economic and regional consequences of the restructuring of the EU fishing industry (—» point 1.3.99). D Area of freedom, security and justice: the Council adopts a directive defining the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence (—» point 1.4.10), a framework decision on strength­ening the penal framework to prevent the facilitation of unauthorised entry, transit and residence (—¥ point 1.4.11), a return action programme (—¥ point 1.4.6), a decision establishing a mechanism for evaluating legal systems and their implementation at national level in the fight against terror­ism (^ point 1.4.16), and a decision setting up a European network for the protection of public figures (— > point 1.4.24). Π Environment: 12th CITES conference (— > point 1.4.43); adoption of the regulation establish­ing the European Union Solidarity Fund and signing of the interinstitutional agreement (— > points 1.4.44 and 1.4.45); eighth conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 8) (^ point 1.4.54). D Energy: the Council and Parliament approve the proposal for a directive on the energy perform­ance of buildings (—* point 1.4.61); the Commission adopts a communication on nuclear safety (—» point 1.4.62); Council agreement is reached on common positions in respect of the proposals for a directive and for a regulation aimed at liberalisation of the electricity and gas markets (— > point 1.4.58). D Transport: Parliament and the Council sign a regulation and a directive on maritime safely and the prevention of pollution from ships (— > point 1.4.69). D Animal welfare: the Commission adopts a communication on animal welfare legislation on farmed animals in third countries and the implications for the European Union (-* point 1.4.92).