The main points on the agenda of the EP’s parliamentary Commissions meeting in Brussels from Monday 8 to Thursday 11 October were as follows: · Juridical personality of the European Union (Comm. Constitutional Affairs, Rapporteur Carnero Gonzalez); · Prevention of conflicts: regional integration and cooperation, prevention in the short term (Comm. Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Rapporteur Lagendijk); · Progress made in the implementation of foreign policy and common security (Comm. Foreign Affairs, Rapporteur Brok); · Relations between the EP and the national Parliaments in European construction (Comm. Const. Affairs and Comm. Foreign Affairs, Rapporteurs Napolitano and Queiro); · Delimitation of the competencies between the EU and member States (Comm. Const. Affairs and Comm.Foreign Affairs, Rapporteurs Lamassoure and Newton Dunn); · Asylum: minimum standards for the reception of asylum-seekers (Comm. for Citizens’ Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs, Rapporteur Hernandez Mollar); · European Year of persons with disabilities in 2003 (Comm. Freedoms and Comm. Social Affairs, Rapporteurs Andrews and Lynne); · Fiscal policy in the EU Priorities for the years to come (Commission for economic and monetary problems, Rapporteur Della Vedova); · Employment: general guidelines for the policies of member States in 2002 (Commission of Social Affairs, Rapporteur Weiler); · Environment: Community programme of action 2001-2010 (Commission for the environment, public health and consumer policy, Rapporteur Myller); · Education and ongoing vocational training (Commission for education, media and sport, Rapporteur Van Brempt); · Heavily indebted poor countries: special loans and debt relief (Commission for development and cooperation, Rapporteur Mantovani); · Human rights and democratization: role of the Union in third countries (Commission for development, Rapporteur Ferrer); · Social, juridical, ethical and economic implications of human genetics (temporary Commission on human genetics and the new technologies in the field of modern medicine, Rapporteur Fiori).
