European Parliament” “

The European Parliament is meeting in Brussels for a plenary mini-session from Wednesday 9 to Thursday 10 October 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Communication of the Commission – Approval of the Report of the European Commission on progress towards enlargement; · Declarations of the Senior Representative for foreign policy and joint security and of the Commission – Situation in Iraq; · Joint Discussion – Employment; · Declarations of the Council and of the Commission – Strategy for employment; · Measures of financial assistance in aid of innovation and job-creation in small and medium industries (rapporteur: Bushill-Matthews); · Joint discussion – Algeria; · Accord of association EC/Algeria (rapporteur: Obiols i Germà); · Discipline for trade in greenhouse gas emission quotas (rapporteur: Moreira da Silva).