Hungary will hold the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the firsthalf of 2011. In line with the practice within the European Union and with a view to thecooperation among national parliaments, the Hungarian National Assembly will organize thetraditional meetings of parliamentary committee chairpersons. The agendas and topics ofthese meetings are in line with the general agenda of the European Union as well as with thepriorities of the Hungarian Presidency.Please allow us, Chairmen of the Committees on Regional Development and SustainableDevelopment of the Hungarian National Assembly

to kindly invite you to the joint meeting

organized by our committees on 3-4 March 2011

in Budapest in the parliamentaryframework related to the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.The venue of the meeting will be the Upper Hall of the National Assembly. We kindly inviteyou to dinner along with a cultural event on the evening of 3 March.Please find attached the preliminary draft programme of the meeting, and the generalinformation document.You can register online for the meeting on the EU Presidency website of the NationalAssembly,http://www.parliament-eu2011.eu, by using the username

regisustdev.chairs

andthe password

budapestmeeting.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Budapest!