Good afternoon and welcome to our midday briefing.

We have a couple of announcements for you before we take your questions.

Starting with the College meeting of tomorrow,

following the meeting yesterday of the Heads of Cabinet.

We can announce that the College is due to adopt tomorrow 3 proposals for regulations simplifying Europe-wide travel booking for passengers,

so this should be good news for us all.

As well as consumers of public transport,

the Executive Vice President Fito and Commissioner Tzitzikostas will present this package in our press room here tomorrow after the college meeting and will also do the readout.

And already this afternoon you will be able to learn more about this package.

We are offering a technical briefing to take place under the embargo so that it helps you prepare your reporting.

Tomorrow the Commissioners are also expected to adopt a communication on a new global health resilience initiative which Commissioner Síkela will present in the press room following the readout. Finally, the Commissioners will adopt a communication.

Responding to a European citizens' initiative calling for a ban on conversion practices in the European Union,

and it will be Commissioner Lahbib who will present this communication at the VIP corner at 2:30 tomorrow.

As always, we will follow up with the details of these events via our usual channels.