A virtual professional qualifications card, to make it easier for doctors, pharmacists, architects and other professionals to move to and practice in another EU country and an alert system, to make it harder for those barred from a profession at home to do likewise, will be introduced by a new draft law voted by Parliament on Wednesday.

A draft law to make tobacco products less attractive to young people was passed by Parliament on Tuesday. All packs should carry a health warning covering 65% of their surface. Fruit, menthol flavours and small packs should be banned, and electronic cigarettes should be regulated but as medicinal products only if they claim curative or preventive properties, says the approved text.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened a conference of the European Technology Platform on Future Manufacturing Technologies held under the motto "ManuFuture View on Horizon 2020". At the conference which is part of the official programme of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, representatives of European manufacturing industry and science will debate how Horizon 2020 - the EU's new framework programme for research and innovation - will strengthen the EU manufacturing industry, sustainable development and competitiveness in the period 2014-2020.

On Monday, the meeting of the EU's Chief Medical Officers and Chief Medical Care Officers will commence in Vilnius. The event will cover the EU's vaccination situation, best practices in dealing with youth's mental health issues, advanced medical care practices, and the future of caregivers. It's a traditional semi-annual meeting, organized in the country presiding over the EU Council.

4th October, Brussels. The Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER I) mandated Lithuanian Presidency to start negotiations with the European Parliament on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD).

President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the Lithuanian-Ukrainian youth's civil initiative "One Heart" and the winners of the drawing competition.

Budgets Committee MEPs reversed the Council's proposed cuts in investments to stimulate growth and jobs in 2014 during a long voting session on Wednesday and Thursday. They also reversed cuts in funding for international policy, such as humanitarian aid to the Middle East and refugees. Parliament's own budget was substantially reduced.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė opened a European Competition Day conference. It is an event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council bringing together representatives of competition authorities, international organizations, business and academic communities. The list of participants includes the Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition, Joaquín Almunia, representatives from Microsoft Corporation, heads of competition authorities from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, as well as competition law practitioners and academics.

On the 3–4 October the 7th European Quality Conference will be held in Vilnius. The Conference is organised by the Ministry of the Interior of Lithuania, currently chairing EUPAN, the European Public Administration Network. About 300 participants representing the government institutions and organizations from public sector and education of the EU member states will take part at the event.

The finalists for this year's Sakharov Prize have been named as Belarusian political prisoners Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau and Mykola Statkevich, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden and Pakistani campaigner for girls' education Malala Yousafzai. The laureate will be selected by EP president Martin Schulz and the leaders of the political groups on 10 October and the ceremony will take place in Strasbourg on 20 November.