– Thank you Commissioner Lamy. In relation to the last part of your speech, Commissioner, regarding the Parliamentary Conference, I would like to inform the Members that the Inter-parliamentary Union and the European Parliament have agreed to make available a brochure featuring the speeches, the debate and the conclusions of the Parliamentary Conference which we held in Geneva last February, at which a number of the Members who are ...[+++] about to take the floor were present and which, to all intents and purposes, laid the foundations for this Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organisation’s agenda.

[25] Preliminary draft resolution of the inter-parliamentary conference in The Hague on 7-8 June 2001

A first public step towards examining the adequacy of these control arrangements was taken with the 1st Inter-parliamentary Conference on Europol in The Hague on 7-8 June 2001, organised by the Dutch Parliament.

[5] This initiative was followed by the organisation by the Dutch Parliament of the first inter-parliamentary European Union conference on Europol on 7-8 June 2001, which focused on the question of parliamentary control.

In June this year, I had the opportunity to discuss this issue at the interparliamentary conference organised by the Dutch government in The Hague, which was attended by representatives of practically all national parliaments of the Member States and which Mr Turco also attended.

(7) The United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context of 25 February 1991, which applies to both Member States and other States, encourages the parties to the Convention to apply its principles to plans and programmes as well; at the second meeting of the Parties to the Convention in Sofia on 26 and 27 February 2001, it was decided to prepare a legally binding protocol on strategic environmental assessment which would supplement the existing provisions on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, with a view to its possible adoption on the occasion of the 5th Mi ...[+++]nisterial Conference "Environment for Europe" at an extraordinary meeting of the Parties to the Convention, scheduled for May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine.