Good morning.

Welcome to our press briefing today, and we have a couple of announcements,

and let me start with the College agenda and the related press events. Tomorrow.

We will adopt an affordable housing package which will be presented together with a college readout by Executive Vice President Ribera and Commissioner Jørgensen following the college meeting.

And we are foreseeing a technical briefing on this topic ahead of the press conference tomorrow at 10 in the morning as usual under embargo.

The Commissioners are also expected to adopt tomorrow a public procurement act and a European Innovation Act which will be presented by Executive Vice President Se Journey and Commissioner Zaharieva after the College readout tomorrow.

And on these topics too, we will hold two separate technical briefings this afternoon already,

and again in the embargo so as to facilitate your reporting.

The first technical briefing on the European Innovation Act will take place at 3 p.m. this afternoon, and the second one on the Public Procurement Act at 4 p.m. And finally, the Commissioners will exchange views at tomorrow's College meeting on the uttermost regions package,

which will be presented by Executive Vice President Fito on Thursday at 11:30 in our press room and online,

the idea being that you are not faced with too many different topics on the very same afternoon.

So you should be receiving all the details on these press events also via our usual channels.