The Commissions of the European Parliament are meeting in Brussels from Monday 8 to Thursday 11 July 2002. The main points on the agenda are as follows: · Declaration of Per Stig Moller, Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, acting President of the Council, on the programme of the Danish Presidency in the foreign policy and joint security sector (Commission for Foreign Affairs, human rights, joint security and defence policy); · Progress made in the implementation of EU foreign policy and joint security (Commission for foreign affairs, rapporteur: Brok); · Annual report on arms exports (Commission for foreign affairs, rapporteur: Titley); · Rail safety (Commission for regional policy, transport and tourism, rapporteur: Sterckx); · Air safety, civil aviation: prevention of accidents, data gathering, analysis and handling (Commission for regional policy, rapporteur: Collins); · Health and developing countries; rights in terms of reproductive and sexual hygiene (Commission for development and cooperation and Commission for women’s rights and equal opportunities, rapporteurs: Sandbaek and Sartori); · Recommendation of the EP for negotiating economic partnership agreements with the ACP Regions and States (Commission for development and cooperation and Commission for industry and external trade, research and energy, rapporteurs: Boudjenah and Titley); · Life sciences and biotechnology: strategy for Europe (Commission for industry, rapporteur: Damiao); · Strategy on employment: evaluation of the first five years (Commission for employment and social affairs, rapporteur: Schmid); · Scheme for the implementation of the social Agenda (Commission of social affairs, rapporteur: Smet); · Health and safety at work: new EU strategy 2002-2006 (Commission for social affairs, rapporteur: Hughes).
